Official Olympic flag stolen

[chillonhill]

Yup it was on city hall in Vancouver, The one handed over in Turin to Vancouver. Somebody broke the lock and stole it.

Oh well, worst things have happened

 

[freestyler540]

proof?

link?

 

[chillonhill]

You'll hear it on the news eventually!

 

[Holte]

when'd this happen?

 

[chillonhill]

last night, when the IOC crew was in town.

Some redical group that wants to disrupt the Olympics apperantly.

 

[Itsbackfliptime]

oh well. At least it was only a flag and not something thats actually important.

 

[DDrem.]

i have a sneaky suspiscion this is a tall tale

 

[Nihiriju]

fuck all the peopel who wnat to fuck up the olympics, its already happening, and its not gonna stop. They may as well live up with it and try to make it the ebst they can instead of trying to fuck it over. fuckers. 

 

[wrenegade]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/03/06/bc-flag.html

Unfortunately its the truth. Fucking douchebags. Thats just $7,000 more that won't go to their precious sustainable housing. Hardly a political statement when no one claims responsibility for it, just a pain in the ass. I fucking hate these people.

 

[iskilibertys]

i dont get the significance

 

[Nadia.]

These silly hippies have nothing better to do, now that they're going ahead with the eagle ridge construction. If anything more awareness will be raised to solve a lot of these drug/homelessness problems leading into the games because I'm sure Vancouver doesn't want to be portrayed as a "problem" city. Hello Hastings~

 

[Jib_This]

I used to care about the homeless, but now, they can all go die in the cold.

There's nothing I hate more than a so called "activist" that doesn't bother doing anything useful, and would rather just go around causing shit.

Guess what, idiots: LIKE 'EM OR NOT, THE OLYMPICS ARE COMING. Might as well find a way to work with it.

 

[-benedetto]

why would the homeless rob a flag?

 

[Nadia.]

Oh hey I know! Let's kill two birds with one stone and solve the homelessness problem and organ donor crisis at the same time... har har har.

Ok, maybe not. That's kind of sick.

 

[-+Siver+-]

yeah it is and i can't believe you even brought that up

 

[Drunkenstein]

how old is this olympic flag? Cause if it was a flag dating back from the first olympics then that would suck.

 

[pns513]

why the hell would you steal a flag

 

[00000000]

The fact that you even thought about that says a lot about your character

 

[00000000]

Think about that for a second, do you even know when the first Olympics were? I really hope you don't.

 

[adam.]

people that steal olympic flags deserve to get there sack stapled to thier legs and are forces to do the splits, i hate people that steal important things

 

[ijibgoremtn]

yea seriously that shit is like 1000's of years old man

 

[futurespin]

1998?

 

[HHB]

i stole the flag.

 

[Nadia.]

Try Ancient Greece maybe? Wow...

 

[iskilibertys]

Not really man...If it went from Turin to Vancouver, then it was for the Winter Olympics, or else it would have come from Athens. Thus, the first Olympic Games which this flag would have been for would have been the first Winter Olympics, which were in 1924 in Chamonix, though they weren't designated as Winter Olympics until 1926 by the IOC (International Olympic Committee).

But I still dont see the significance of a flag...

 

[Nihiriju]

i'm in vancouver, lets go hunt down whoever stole it and say really mean thigns to them and maybe trip them. 

 

[Itsbackfliptime]

Well the first modern olympics were in 1896 I believe.

 

[french_fry]

I bet it's gonna end up on ebay or craigslist...hummm, sounds like an idea for a prank.

 

[Drunkenstein]

1886 in Athens, I think the first winter Olympics were in 1936. Off the top of my head

After 20 seconds of google research......summer 1896, winter 1924.

 

[DUBIE]

HAHAHA

 

[PagesHouse]

im glad theyre teaching you something in history...

 

[nitsua]

i would like to see some prrrrroooooof