Stanley Cup victory riots, May 24th, 1986, Montréal, Québec. From John Jantak‘s Flickr stream.
Ah, Montréal.
I remember when you used to do this kind of crap for a Stanley Cup victory. Or conversely, when the Habs made it all the way to the Cup-deciding round, but lost.
Now? Look at yourselves. First round victory? Big deal. Save it for something better.
RELATED: Montréal’s chief of police is pleased that no civilians or police officers were injured. Just don’t ask about the 16 patrol cars and estimated $500,000 in damages caused by the rioters. Protecting private and public property is presumably a much lesser concern. It’s not as if the people of Montréal will, inexplicably, end up paying for those damaged police cars. They grow on trees, after all.
Chris is most often found flying a desk, but he delights in studying the Golden Age of Aviation (1919-1939). He admires all the pioneering men and women who navigated the skies with nothing more sophisticated than a map, compass and sextant—and the conviction that there was no place they could not reach.
