Downtown Vancouver Updates - Page 307

entheosfog · #**6121** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 2:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by paradigm4

^ Wow! Busy busy. They closed down Howe?!

they sure did. which made downtown traffic very snarly. and slow.

while I was stuck in traffic I took a quick snap of the building going up at Granville and Nelson, taken from Seymour:

SpongeG · #**6122** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 2:03 AM**

Thousands of marijuana enthusiasts celebrate '420' in Vancouver

SpongeG · #**6123** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 2:16 AM**

my nephew is in the pics for the vancouver sun - haha oops shame i mean

Yume-sama · #**6124** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 2:24 AM**

Rain definitely makes an event like that better. Gives all the hippies a rare shower, too.

Must have been quite a few bus fulls of people from Surrey

... Yep, here's your Ed Hardy wearing UFC Crowd.

I don't want to say I wouldn't love my child if he / she came home looking like this, but... yeah. It wouldn't be possible for that to continue.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Thousan...te+Vancouver/2930770/story.html?tab=PHOT

ckkelley · #**6125** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 4:05 AM**

^^
lol. High as a kite!

SpongeG · #**6126** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 7:33 AM**

ah youth

NetMapel · #**6127** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 7:39 AM**

I really want to keep an open mind about this, but I just don't get this event...

AlexYVR · #**6128** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 4:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by NetMapel

I really want to keep an open mind about this, but I just don't get this event...

Me neither. At all. Then again, for a day in July every year without fail I pour fake blood all over myself and stagger around feigning a hunger for brains, so I guess live and let live.

osirisboy · #**6129** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 5:29 PM**

Man those people are so friggin gross.

vanman · #**6130** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 8:01 PM**

The fact that people still seem to care that some people like pot is beyond me.

Yume-sama · #**6131** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 8:10 PM**

Well, I don't really care, I tend not to care about things that have absolutely no affect on my life.

However, they could look less stereotypical when they show up to these events

Of course it WAS in the middle of the afternoon on a work day, which in itself is stereotypical.

vanman · #**6132** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 8:11 PM**

Yeah, but the same could be said about any sub group.

idunno · #**6133** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 8:12 PM**

I think those pictures were picked to especially show those types of "subgroups," when probably most of the people there are just normal stoner types.

LeftCoaster · #**6134** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 8:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Yume-sama

Well, I don't really care, I tend not to care about things that have absolutely no affect on my life.

However, they could look less stereotypical when they show up to these events

Of course it WAS in the middle of the afternoon on a work day, which in itself is stereotypical.

You dont think its possible that those pictures were chosen becuase they were stereotypical?

I'm sure the majoroity of the people there looked like normal people, but that would hardly make an interesting picture now would it?

Yume-sama · #**6135** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 8:29 PM**

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster

You dont think its possible that those pictures were chosen becuase they were stereotypical?

Mmm, judging by the broad overhead shots and news coverage... no.

There's nothing "wrong" with being stereotypical. Just go to the Apple store and see who it's filled with.

Each stereotype just has its own perception, and they certainly live up to it

BCPhil · #**6136** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 8:37 PM**

If it were a crowd in front of the Art Gallery that large all throwing back hard liquor, with teens taking hits off Texas mickeys, the Tear Gas cloud released by police would be so large it would not dissipate for 3 days.

I'm all for the legalization of pot, at home or even in bars, but public consumption should fall under the same tolerance as alcohol. And one thing that is not tolerated at all is contributing to the delinquency of minors. The city should not be seen in any light as being supportive of an event that gets kids high. This is public property, in the core of a metropolitan downtown, being openly used for criminal activity and we laugh it off and even close roads for them. The police should have moved in and broken some heads.

If I went down to the Olympics and sold cold beers (a currently legal beverage) out of my cooler on a street corner to 15 year olds, I'm pretty sure I would end up in jail.

quobobo · #**6137** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 8:42 PM**

Think of the children!

(seriously though, could we make another thread for this and keep 4/20-related snark out of this one?)

Yume-sama · #**6138** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 8:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by BCPhil

If it were a crowd in front of the Art Gallery that large all throwing back hard liquor, with teens taking hits off Texas mickeys, the Tear Gas cloud released by police would be so large it would not dissipate for 3 days.

I'm all for the legalization of pot, at home or even in bars, but public consumption should fall under the same tolerance as alcohol. And one thing that is not tolerated at all is contributing to the delinquency of minors. The city should not be seen in any light as being supportive of an event that gets kids high. This is public property, in the core of a metropolitan downtown, being openly used for criminal activity and we laugh it off and even close roads for them. The police should have moved in and broken some heads.

If I went down to the Olympics and sold cold beers (a currently legal beverage) out of my cooler on a street corner to 15 year olds, I'm pretty sure I would end up in jail.

Let's test this theory and set up keg stands and beer bongs for 14 year olds at the VAG.

bulliver · #**6139** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 8:56 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCPhil

If it were a crowd in front of the Art Gallery that large all throwing back hard liquor, with teens taking hits off Texas mickeys, the Tear Gas cloud released by police would be so large it would not dissipate for 3 days.

I'm all for the legalization of pot, at home or even in bars, but public consumption should fall under the same tolerance as alcohol. And one thing that is not tolerated at all is contributing to the delinquency of minors. The city should not be seen in any light as being supportive of an event that gets kids high. This is public property, in the core of a metropolitan downtown, being openly used for criminal activity and we laugh it off and even close roads for them. The police should have moved in and broken some heads.

If I went down to the Olympics and sold cold beers (a currently legal beverage) out of my cooler on a street corner to 15 year olds, I'm pretty sure I would end up in jail.

Is that you Tom Campbell? "broken some heads"? Really? Glad to see there are still some folks out there that support police brutality.

Perhaps the fact that so many folks come downtown for this event that they have to close roads is a pretty good sign that smoking pot shouldn't be a 'criminal activity'. Jeez, maybe that's why they all come down in the first place? Can't get much press holding a rally in your living room.

BTW, it's your job to raise your kids, not the police, and certainly not the COV.

flight_from_kamakura · #**6140** Posted **Apr 21, 2010, 9:45 PM**

different thread.