Awesome photo from the Vancouver riots

[hal]

For the uninitiated: (NHL playoffs) The hockey world was pretty much ready to hand over the Stanley cup to the team that had (by far) the best record in the regular season and lead the league is almost all offensive and defensive stats.

Long story short - they lost game 7 of the finals at home last night and riots (predictably) broke out all over the downtown area.

and through it all, someone got this shot:

[JoeM]

HE SHOOTS...HE SCORES!!!

[pinkoos]

Looks like someone giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to a victim of police brutality. Pretty normal for a riot, no? I don't see what's the big deal.

[Ombligo]

Shot by freelancer Richard Lam for Getty Images.

Great shot, although the old photo editor in me say step to your left six inches. tone it down some and crop a bit from bottom and left something like this edited version I just whipped together:

[Z]

So the unfortunate followup, or else just a snapshot in time that isn't nearly as flattering:

[JoeM]

Z wrote:
So the unfortunate followup, or else just a snapshot in time that isn't nearly as flattering:

Oh oh...and here I was hoping for a love connection amid the chaos.

[hal]

Pretty sure that is still a love connection, but now with added onlookers...

The moment is gone... sigh...

[Black]

Wow, it's just so awesome when people go out and trash their own neighborhood over a frikkin' sports event.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Z wrote:
So the unfortunate followup, or else just a snapshot in time that isn't nearly as flattering:

It's all about perspective.

[Black]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=Z]
So the unfortunate followup, or else just a snapshot in time that isn't nearly as flattering:

It's all about perspective.
Actually I was pretty sure that was where his hand was when I saw the first post.