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Title: Canadian flag prank has California townsfolk seeing red
Category: Law & Order
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-04-05 22:35:13
Canadian

[PENATRATOR]

You don't fuck with a nations flag. End of story. Totally classless and disrespectful, up there with booing anthems, throw the book at them

[Guy_Fawkes]

I with ya on this one.

[Unsound]

Agreed, although I do think criminal charges may be a little too much. Fines should be enough. Maybe make the guys who did it stand on a corner with a sign or something.

[Brenda]

$1:

He said he found the old one torn apart and buried underneath a pile of rocks.

That is what doesn't make it funny anymore.

I can see the prank in it, BUT you have to make sure you are in a hockeytown when you do this stuff. It may come as a surprise, but not everyone is that into hockey...

[Unsound]

Blasphemer!!!

[canuckns]

I agree with Penatrator on this one. Completely disrespectful. Especially after I read that the found the US flag on the ground buried under a pile of rocks. You don't fuck with another nations flag, EVER! Especially when your in that country as a guest.

[CDN_PATRIOT]

Personally, I don't think this 'incident' warranted the press it got, nor do the 'perpetrators' deserve any kind of punishment. If anything, it just proves that Americans can't seem to take any kind of joke whatsoever.

And then the comments from some Americans:

"We should just invade Canada and annex the whole slow-moving country. It should be easy since they don't have any guns."

Seriously? That kind of arrogance and ignorance has got them into big trouble in the past. (Pearl Harbour, Vietnam, 9/11) It's a shame they never learn.

Perhaps we should burn the White House down fo the fourth time.

-J.

[BartSimpson]

I was cool with this (mostly because I might have done it myself in some other circumstance) right up until I read about the guys tearing up the US flag and burying it under a pile of rocks.

I wouldn't do that to an Iranian flag.

I agree with some of the commenters who think that after the charges are dealt with that these particular folks be invited to return to Canada.

[2Cdo]

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

Personally, I don't think this 'incident' warranted the press it got, nor do the 'perpetrators' deserve any kind of punishment. If anything, it just proves that Americans can't seem to take any kind of joke whatsoever.

And if we were to reverse the situation, you would probably be among those screaming the loudest for their hides.

Stupid, moronic incidents like this do require a punishment so as to discourage others. Community service would probably be best for this.

[BartSimpson]

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

Personally, I don't think this 'incident' warranted the press it got, nor do the 'perpetrators' deserve any kind of punishment. If anything, it just proves that Americans can't seem to take any kind of joke whatsoever.

And then the comments from some Americans:

"We should just invade Canada and annex the whole slow-moving country. It should be easy since they don't have any guns."

Seriously? That kind of arrogance and ignorance has got them into big trouble in the past. (Pearl Harbour, Vietnam, 9/11) It's a shame they never learn.

Yep, it was a rude comment. True that.

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

Perhaps we should burn the White House down fo the fourth time.

-J.

Too bad you found a way to make their rude comment almost seem justified.

[canuckns]

2Cdo 2Cdo:

CDN_PATRIOT CDN_PATRIOT:

Personally, I don't think this 'incident' warranted the press it got, nor do the 'perpetrators' deserve any kind of punishment. If anything, it just proves that Americans can't seem to take any kind of joke whatsoever.

And if we were to reverse the situation, you would probably be among those screaming the loudest for their hides.

Stupid, moronic incidents like this do require a punishment so as to discourage others. Community service would probably be best for this.

You beat me to it 2Cdo;

And I'm sure that if the rolls were reversed you would be just as accomadating.

That it was no big deal that 2 Americans in Canada ripped a Canadian flag from a flag pole and replaced it with an American flag then buried the Canadian flag under a pile of rocks.

I know several people on this site alone that would be screaming for American blood if this had happened to a Canadian flag in Canada.

[andyt]

Changing flags and leaving the US one at the bottom of the pole with pwnd attached to it - priceless. Destroying the flag - unbelievable. Wonder how they would feel if somebody say lit up a Canadian flag during a hockey game?

[bootlegga]

$1:

Dan Held, general manager of the Beer Hunter pub, said his bar was split evenly between Canadian and American hockey fans on the day of the big Olympic hockey final.

He said he doesn't really know what all the fuss is about.

"I consider it a minor prank. I even giggled to it," he said. "I don't think there was any malicious intent."

Mr. Held said he cares about more important things -- like trying to get a satellite link to TSN for the pub.

Doug Baldwin, outgoing president of the Canadian Club of the Desert, said he considers the flag removal disrespectful.

But filing criminal charges against the two culprits might be a bit much.

Maybe fine them for the price of a new flag, and "move on," he said.

It's a minor infraction if you ask me, some community service and perhaps buying a new flag or two should suffice.

I'm sure no drunk American has ever done anything so heinous , but apparently sober ones say stupid shite like this;

$1:

"We should just invade Canada and annex the whole slow-moving country. It should be easy since they don't have any guns."

[rawmeat]

Another reader wrote: "I'm ashamed to be Canadian -- absolutely outrageous. I'm stunned.

It pisses me off when people say shit like the above quote. Who the hell is ashamed to be canadian because of what a couple of jack asses did? That is just stupid.