Oh No - Our Olympic Flag Has Been Heisted!!!

[Ladskater]

Yikes!!! Stop Thief!!! Our 2010 Olympic Flag (not the real one) was stolen today from City Hall. It would seem not everyone is welcoming the Olympic games in 2010 to Vancouver/Whistler:

Here is the story:

http://www.news1130.com/

 

[iluvtodd]

Now that's pretty pathetic! :yes:

 

[Tigger]

Well, if it's the same group that disrupted the clock unveiling event, then what I think of them can't be posted on this board!!

I have no problem w/people not wanting the Games and wanting to protest them, HOWEVER....Throwning snowballs w/rocks inside them at a crowd made up of mostly school kids and seniors is not protesting. Rushing the stage and knocking down a double amputee Paralympian to try and get to the podium is not protesting. Booing O Canada is not protesting.

Those idiots were whining over being arrested for trying to exercise their right to protest. Well, then maybe they should learn how to do just that w/out breaking the law.

I am all for the Games and am keeping an eye out for when the torch relay information comes out. I can't wait for 2010 and the party this country is going to be putting on. I do realize not everyone is happy about it though and they do have the right to voice that, but what has happened the last month...They're losing any sympathy they might have been able to get from the minority out there.

 

[Ladskater]

2010 Olympics Are Doomed

I have this horrible feeling our Games here in Vancouver/Whistler are doomed for failure - the activists are raising their ugly heads at every turn to throw in a monkey wrench and our so called "top security" group is not very successfully preventing them from sabotaging the games. I can just see things three years from now. It could get pretty ugly. Today its the clock and the flag who knows what will be next?

It just goes to show - Vancouver is not really prepared with enough security for what could happen in 2010.

 

[dfj]

I have this horrible feeling our Games here in Vancouver/Whistler are doomed for failure - the activists are raising their ugly heads at every turn to throw in a monkey wrench and our so called "top security" group is not very successfully preventing them from sabotaging the games. I can just see things three years from now. It could get pretty ugly. Today its the clock and the flag who knows what will be next?

It just goes to show - Vancouver is not really prepared with enough security for what could happen in 2010.

As much as I hate to admit it, I agree. In 2010, I am going on vacation and getting the heck out of Dodge for that two-week period. I love the Olys and was happy to see them here, but the reality is that they will be hideously expensive and I don't think Vancouver has the infrastructure to manage such a huge, huge event.

 

[JonnyCoop]

As much as I hate to admit it, I agree. In 2010, I am going on vacation and getting the heck out of Dodge for that two-week period. I love the Olys and was happy to see them here, but the reality is that they will be hideously expensive and I don't think Vancouver has the infrastructure to manage such a huge, huge event.

I've been pondering that one myself. I LOVE Vancouver, it's my favorite city in the world and I've been there several times, but given the way it's set up and its geography and population density, I gotta think it's gonna be a total ZOO.

By the way, last time I was there, a couple years ago, there was a SERIOUS auto race going on along the waterfront for a few days and it seems to me I heard somewhere that the government (can't remember if it was municipal or provincial) paid the expenses of anyone who lived in those expensive waterfront condos if they wanted to get out of town and away from the noise for the time it was going on; is that true, and if so, are they going to do the same for locals who don't want to deal with the Olympic mayhem??