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Topic: San Francisco Officials Prepare For
Super Bowl, Hope To Avoid Violence |
San Francisco Officials Prepare For
Super Bowl, Hope To Avoid Violence
KCBS [San Francisco, CA], by Staff
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Original Article
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Posted By:StormCnter, 1/26/2013 10:31:00 AM
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| SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco city officials preparing for the 49ers’ Super Bowl game against the Baltimore Ravens are hoping to avoid a repeat of the violence and vandalism that marred World Series celebrations last year. A total of 36 people were arrested during post-game celebrations in October after the San Francisco Giants’ World Series victory against the Detroit Tigers, 23 of them for felonies. Celebrants lit a number of bonfires in the middle of Mission Street, broke windows and, in one notorious incident, set a Muni 8X-Bayshore Express bus on fire at Market and Kearny streets.
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Comments:
The mayor suggests bars refrain from serving "hard" liquor during the game. Good luck with that.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 1/26/2013 10:52:12 AM (No. 9140434)
What kind of person thinks it is okay to celebrate by destroying property that does not belong to them? This goes for the NCAA basketball tourney too. I don´t understand. I am not a drinker so maybe that´s it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TheMotherCO, 1/26/2013 11:08:45 AM (No. 9140468)
I do not want to go to San Fran for any reason. Horrid traffic and icky streets. Of
course I have not been there in years and it might be different now.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 1/26/2013 11:12:33 AM (No. 9140474)
How can there be violence if there are no "assault" weapons?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Northcross, 1/26/2013 11:22:04 AM (No. 9140495)
I would invite the violence, and give the police the instructions to shoot to kill.
It would stop these thugs from all the other crimes they are committing when no championship is on the line.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
HistoryBuff, 1/26/2013 11:34:39 AM (No. 9140526)
Why not just forfeit the game, and call the whole thing off?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/26/2013 11:37:21 AM (No. 9140532)
Why not just ask (force?) the bars to close that day?
/s off/
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
horacer, 1/26/2013 12:13:57 PM (No. 9140607)
They have to stab a few people in honor of Ray Lewis´s last game.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
FL_Absentee_Voter, 1/26/2013 12:14:49 PM (No. 9140608)
#2 - It´s worse now.
Maybe the Wicked Witch of the West Congresswoman can tap her heels together and wish all the violence away.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
veritas, 1/26/2013 12:47:02 PM (No. 9140672)
40 years of Leftists killing the concept of personal responsibility, and of license replacing liberty [and as we know, San Francisco takes license to depths and places we´d rather not know!], won´t be cured by arresting a few out of hundreds [thousands?].
The proper answer, because civil order is in fat at risk, is for the city to budget for restocking a fair number of shotgun shells.
#1: There´s no connection between a "big game" or a championship and such rioting. The rioting, looting, stealing, and lawlessness are the goal, always a hair´s-breadth away. The "celebration as trigger" is a handy excuse.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
SourKraut, 1/26/2013 12:55:52 PM (No. 9140687)
"hoping to avoid a repeat of the violence and vandalism"
´hoping´ ??
here´s how do it and don;t need to ´hope´
you issue orders of shoot-to-kill looters and arsonists
after the first 3 or 4 bleed out on the street, the rest will get the message
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mitzi, 1/26/2013 12:56:42 PM (No. 9140691)
Well, at least they won´t have to worry about gun violence in SF. I read somewhere they have the strictest control laws in the U.S. /s
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/26/2013 1:36:29 PM (No. 9140764)
It`s worse than you remember #2. I have a family member who is a police officer in SF working the graveyard shift. I could tell you stories that would make your head spin like Linda Blair.....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bob913, 1/26/2013 1:59:14 PM (No. 9140799)
The football players themselves probably have many felonies.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Citizen Plain, 1/26/2013 2:19:28 PM (No. 9140835)
The Castro district will make a team effort....
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
horacer, 1/26/2013 2:36:40 PM (No. 9140852)
#15 it happened once in the same calendar year. The Jets won the Super Bowl for the 68 season in January of 69 and the Mets won the 69 World Series that fall. Amazin. The 70 Orioles won the World Series in the fall of 70 and then the Colts won the 70 Super Bowl in Jan of 71. The turnover bowl.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
reilly, 1/26/2013 6:42:28 PM (No. 9141202)
Patriots and Red Sox in 2004.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 1/26/2013 6:48:45 PM (No. 9141209)
I hope both teams lose and I will NOT be watching this Harbaughable match up. These week teams keep sneaking into the Super Bowl. They need to rethink the wildcard situation. Too many teams means and too long of a post season means weak teams like these two sneaking in and they will probably stink the place up, especially Drudge´s main man, Kapernick. Barf. Go Chargers!
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