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San Francisco Sweeps Up After Giants Sweep
Fans lit bonfires along Mission Street and around AT&T Park, and some revelers threw beer bottles at police just before midnight.
San Francisco leaders were forced on Monday to begin cleaning up parts of the city after vandals wreaked havoc after the Giants swept the Tigers in the World Series on Sunday night.
Crews from the city’s department of Public Works worked overnight through the morning, cleaning the streets of garbage and debris. San Francisco police told NBC Bay Area that 35 people were arrested on a variety of charges stemming from the vandalism that occurred stemming from the post-victory game.
The arrests stem from the bonfires set along along Mission Street and around AT&T Park, and the beer bottles thrown at police just before midnight. Some fans hopped on top of Muni buses and cars along Market Street; at least one car had been tipped on its side.
At least one fan was disappointed with that behavior.
“Why do they have to throw things at buildings?” asked Kristen Wells, a Giants fan who saw no point in destroying property when her favorite baseball team just won the World Series. Some said that the vandals weren’t fans at all, just hoodlums taking advantage of the situation.
The partying had been relatively peaceful after the 8:45 p.m. win 4-3 against the Detroit Tigers until just after 11 p.m.
conservative cowgirl
October 30th, 2012
San Franfreako is reaping what they hath sown.
Barry
October 30th, 2012
…but ya gotta love their garlic fries.
moarkdave
October 30th, 2012
They take to the streets and damage property to celebrate. Imagine what they will do next week when Barko Bama loses the election?
flip
October 30th, 2012
“…35 people were arrested on a variety of charges stemming from the vandalism that occurred stemming from the post-victory game.”
Crikeys. What a re-write THAT is.
dude
October 30th, 2012
Those silly faggots
Eipisto Wahdmekha
October 30th, 2012
You know they could substitute the word “democrat” for any of these actions and be accurate.
dba_vagabond_trader
October 30th, 2012
Reminds me, we’ll be lighting a bonfire out back the night of Nov 6. byob.
Moe tom
October 30th, 2012
Out of this world STUPIDITY. British soccer hooligan style.
Pickled Liver
October 30th, 2012
Let the buggering begin!
Stranded in Sonoma
October 30th, 2012
Pikers.
Remember when the Bulls won their first basketball championship? The riots in Chit-cago looked like one of those post-apocalyptic video games my kids play.
Actually, everything in SF was going fair to okay until the beer and drugs kicked in about 11pm. That’s when most of the people left to go home because they had to go to work the next day. Those that remained were party fans and got their chance to do they damage they love to do.
The police should have known something like this was going to happen and should have had a major presence in downtown. But I’ll bet the mayor and his cronies shot that idea down and just got lucky it wasn’t a Chit-cago style city burning.
LadyGun12
October 30th, 2012
Hey, it even happened here in Dallas, when the Cowboys won their last Super Bowl (it’s been awhile, okay?). The City of Dallas decided to have a victory parade through downtown. Same thing happened. Fighting broke out, people were hurt, the place was a mess. I think it must be “mob mentality”. It doesn’t make it any less stupid though.
Stranded in Sonoma
October 30th, 2012
By the way…
GIANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Both teams had great pitching, but the Giants had timely hitting. The Tigers had no hitting! The fact that their 3-4-5 hitters (Cabrera, Fielder, Young) struck out in the 8th and their 1-2-3 hitters(Jackson, Kelly, Cabrera) struck out in the 10th, proves the Giants had the better bullpen.
The sweep!
Two championships in three years! I’ll take it!
GI-had Joe
October 30th, 2012
What’s the problem? This is Obama’s jobs program in action. Have the disgruntled and disenfranchised cause damage…have publci servise union employees on the public dole come and clean it up at tax payer expense. Declase a state disaster and have Homleland Securiyt decclare a national disaster, releasing grant funds. It’s allpartof the grand plan. Go Giants! Hummmm Baby!
Anonymous
October 30th, 2012
Occupy MLB !
WhoDat
October 30th, 2012
Makes me proud of my Whodats. Just a good time by all when we won!
muddjuice (Absolutist)
October 30th, 2012
Say what you will about Detroit, but, when the Wings won the Cup a few years back, there was none of this that I heard of.
Now, East Lansing (MSU Campus) is a different story……
Stranded in Sonoma
October 30th, 2012
@muddjuice — That’s because there’s nothing left to destroy in Detroit. 50+ years of democrat rule have seen to that.
Rick
October 30th, 2012
LadyGun12, and the Cowboys have bravely thrown themselves under the bus every year just to keep it from happening again…
moarkdave
October 30th, 2012
@muddjuice
That is because the Urban Youth that would do this probably have never watched a Hockey game, let alone be loyal fans.
Ten Megaton
October 30th, 2012
World Series? When did that happen?
flip
October 31st, 2012
@dba_vagabond_trader:
Yeah, I may have to call off well on the 7th, too.
muddjuice (Absolutist)
October 31st, 2012
@ Stranded and Moark
Good points….good points both. I’m not saying Detroit ain’t broken and terrible. But, even when the Pistons won in the late 80′s – early 90′s. Not much in the way of rioting, looting and pillaging.
They may be cause the thugs realized there was noting worth taking anymore…..