In Comunist Canada only Party Members may see the torch

[northcrunk]

Yep pretty Fascist games IMO, police state mentality has taken over Vancouver but I am not surprised, we have a prime minister who shuts down parliament whenever he wants, I hardly recognize Canada now.

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by northcrunk

Yep pretty Fascist games IMO, police state mentality has taken over Vancouver but I am not surprised, we have a prime minister who shuts down parliament whenever he wants, I hardly recognize Canada now.

[Smell My Finger]

That solution that VANOC came up with to cut a 6" hole by snipping a couple links is pretty lame.
I guess VANOC clearly does not trust Vancouver vandals to not ruin the sculpture or something.
Its pretty strange that they fenced it all off with chain link in the first place.

There was some European photo jounalist that said he has attended the last 10 Olympics and he has never seen the Flame fenced off from the public.

VANOC was really niave to not forsee this to be a potential international issue of the Olympics.

[Russic]

I have to agree with most of the posters in this thread. The fence sucks, but if it wasn't there this thread would be about people throwing paint all over it.

I actually like the idea of treating it like the Stanley Cup. Just have a line and let people go up to it under supervision. Will it stay there once the games are over?

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

When did the shuttle ever land in the Bahamas?

i was saying nasa with my texas accent.

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by Russic

The fence sucks, but if it wasn't there this thread would be about people throwing paint all over it.

I dunno about anyone else, but I think that fugly lookin torch could stand to have a few buckets of paint thrown at it.

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by Smell My Finger

That solution that VANOC came up with to cut a 6" hole by snipping a couple links is pretty lame.
I guess VANOC clearly does not trust Vancouver vandals to not ruin the sculpture or something.
Its pretty strange that they fenced it all off with chain link in the first place.

There was some European photo jounalist that said he has attended the last 10 Olympics and he has never seen the Flame fenced off from the public.

VANOC was really niave to not forsee this to be a potential international issue of the Olympics.

As I understand it that was temporary for now. They were talking about having a viewing platform.

And they've also never held the games on the 'left coast' before. Hence the need for the fence with the pot smoking hippies.

[Reggie Dunlop]

In Soviet Russia, torch finds YOU!

[browna]

Originally Posted by Smell My Finger

There was some European photo jounalist that said he has attended the last 10 Olympics and he has never seen the Flame fenced off from the public.

What a ridiculous statement by some over dramatic Euro.

In Calgary, and the 8 Olympics since, the Olympic Flame is burning in the couldron high above the ground at the top of an open air stadium.

So while techinically true that there's no fence around it, its a couple hundred feet in the air, within a locked stadium, you're also not able to get anywhere near the flame in that case. That restriction and thus not able to get a good photograph of the flame hasn't seemed to been an issue at anytime else, but suddenly people demand and feel entitled to be close enough to warm their hands with this one.

I guess the answer would've been to lift Gretzky up on an industrial crane to light the flame on the outside of BC Place and to hell with having a permanant mounment of the games right on the water front? (which, after all this, is still likely to be a target of protest). People could then crane their necks to take a picture of the flame from some parking lot below and be happy just long enough to find something else in Vancouver to bitch about or that infringes their right to go somewhere without restriction.

[HOOT]

Looks like they finally made it a plexiglass fence....now who would have thought that would be a good idea?

Originally Posted by HOOT

Why not protect it with Pleixglass or something you can see through but it hard to break or get over without some ugly chain link fence in 90% of the photos people take.

I still can't believe that VANOC didn't think people would care about seeing it.

[browna]

Originally Posted by HOOT

Looks like they finally made it a plexiglass fence....now who would have thought that would be a good idea?



I still can't believe that VANOC didn't think people would care about seeing it.

Let hope it lasts without protestor graffiti covering parts of it.

[TowelPower]

I was there last night and the viewing area above the torch was great. I hear today they have replaced the fence with plexi glass.