React to the SF Giants Riot

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#1  Edited By Donos

For my psych class, I'm going to be writing a paper about the riot in San Francisco after the Giants won. As part of it, I want to talk about people's reactions to the riot, and I'm hoping to get some baseline data here.  So....
 
What did you think of the riot? Surprised? Disgusted? Uninterested?

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#2  Edited By CL60

People are stupid.

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#3  Edited By Raven10

Who are the San Fransisco Giants? Are they a Halo clan? I hear they love them some Halo in Cali.

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#5  Edited By nintendoeats
@CL60 said:

" People are stupid. "

This.
 
More specifically, sports seem to tap into that part of peoples mind that is unpleasantly physical and tribal. Its not surprising to me that this can get violent, especially considering the fact that nobody in the crowd could really consider THEMSELVES to be responsible for the event.
 
This is one reason why I like video games, nobody is rioting over Grand Theft Auto. Count the number of sports related deaths against the number of POSSIBLY game related ones. Not even in the same league.
 
EDIT: You realize that this is pretty crappy baseline data? Users of Giant Bomb is not a well randomized sample.
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#6  Edited By Jeffsekai

People will use anything as an excuse to riot 

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#7  Edited By natetodamax

I wish I was there.

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#8  Edited By Diamond

I really don't know San Fransisco that well as an east coaster that's never been to the west coast, but I was surprised those hippies were able to riot with the best of em.  I thought they'd be too busy smoking weed and saying 'peace bro'.

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#9  Edited By Donos
@nintendoeats:  Don't worry, I know what I'm getting by asking my question here. Every piece of data is useful, if not for the immediately obvious reason.
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#10  Edited By damnboyadvance

Why start a riot when your team wins something like this? Does your city not deserve the championship?
 
As you can see, I'm pretty disgusted. It's a shame; our society these days.

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#11  Edited By Fajita_Jim
@CL60 said:
" People are stupid. "
Bingo. Most ESPECIALLY boozed-up sports fans. Of course, boozed-up people in general are dumber than the already ignorant population.
 
Alcohol = instant idiot, in a can/bottle.
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#12  Edited By ryanwho

You're supposed to leave your cave and talk to real people for this assignment, sounds like.

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#13  Edited By benpack

I was there, in the thick of it, and I have it say it was 99% good people having fun, and the shitty 1% of people who were just looking for an excuse to riot. Even in the streets where there was rioting, there were people there who weren't participating. It really got blown out of proportion. When people are checking into a riot on FourSquare, it's not a real riot. Now if it had taken place in Oakland...

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#14  Edited By Fascism

needed more zoot suits

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#15  Edited By SirPsychoSexy

Im here in SF and I would hardly call it a riot

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#16  Edited By yakov456

Meh, it happens everywhere when someone wins. Alcohol plus bottled up excitement equals a fucking mess.

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#17  Edited By neoepoch

It is no where near as bad as soccer riots.

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#18  Edited By Milkman

Sounds like it was a shitty riot. But what do you expect? A bunch of hipsters rioting is hardly anything to be scared of. 

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#19  Edited By Vinny_Says

riots are awesome, you know how much stuff I came up on loot? Really surprised it happened in San Fran though....

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#20  Edited By BionicMonster

Was nothing compared to *insert any soccer riot here*

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#21  Edited By Hats
@neoepoch said:
" It is no where near as bad as soccer riots. "
im with you on this taking out the G8 summit riots in Germany
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#22  Edited By fishmicmuffin

I was surprised that it happened in SF, but I guess in the end there's no stopping the things from happening. Even if it wasn't all people from SF, others from around the Bay would come as an excuse to break shit. 

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#23  Edited By Liono88

A riot is definitely in order they(the giants) have not won a world series since moving to San Francisco so this is their first in that city, so f*** that city up!

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@Donos said:

" For my psych class, I'm going to be writing a paper about the riot in San Francisco after the Giants won. As part of it, I want to talk about people's reactions to the riot, and I'm hoping to get some baseline data here.  So....  What did you think of the riot? Surprised? Disgusted? Uninterested? "

Well like within the same week, Oakland got jealous and had their own riot. Perhaps some compare and contrast? 
 
 
EDIT: To be helpful, I was there for the SF riot. it basically went down like: "OMG, something to celebrate. Wooooo. Hey, people with lives and friends and loved ones you wanna get out of here and take this party home, I mean not much else to do since its not a real block party or nothing." Then the only people left were the people with no lives and no friends, they were like: "Yo, this rush of endorphines is new to be since I don't normally have fun, how far do you think I can throw this beer bottle?"
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#25  Edited By zeforgotten

Shook my head at the ignorance and went to sleep. 
You're not gonna be surprised about people here in this little country not giving a flying fuck.  
 
But all kinds of riots are stupid.  
Those people would cry like little bitches if someone destroyed something of theirs.  
Legalize the shooting of those people, then there's some fun in it for the rest of us :D