Montreal riots -- wrong time of year!

The Habs are nowhere near the playoffs and yet the Montrealers are rioting.

Police bracing themselves for more tonight.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i4ffFONRmWjkHndkWW8dMZR7YC9gD92G5ML00

MONTREAL (AP) — Rioting broke out late Sunday in a Montreal neighborhood where a young man was shot to death by police over the weekend. A police officer was shot in the leg, stores were looted and firefighters were pelted with beer bottles.

Several hundred officers in riot gear fanned out in search of a group of youths who ran off after torching eight cars parked outside a fire station in Montreal North, a multiethnic neighborhood with simmering tensions between residents and police. Fire trucks responding to the call in Montreal North were pelted with beer bottles, while at least three bus shelters were trashed.

The violence erupted following a peaceful community protest against the shooting by police on Saturday of three people, including an 18-year-old man, identified by his sister as Freddy Alberto Villanueva, who died of his wounds.

On Sunday, men and women of all ages crawled through the smashed windows of a pawn shop, a convenience store and a butcher shop, grabbing anything they could. They could be seen running down the street clutching TVs, cigarette cartons and slabs of meat.

 

While the jewelry store and the bank go untouched, of course.

Plus ça change, etc.

 

Oh yeah ... it's Quebec ... smokes and smoked meat!

 

Just to be clear, I'm nowhere near Montreal.

 

"Dans l'intéret de Dieu ils pillent le roi de nourriture !"

 

You looked that up somewhere.

 

Actually, I translated it somewhere. There's a reason I went to summer school.

 

What does God's Internet want to do with anything (well, besides Notre Dame victories)?

 

As Mayor Drapeau used to say, "The parade will follow the usual route"

 

A non-hockey riot in Montreal?
I thought this was how Montrealers rolled when they get their swerve on: