Saturday, June 18, 2011

How’s That for Making Love, Not War

Richard Lam captured proof that not everyone was tearing apart Vancouver following the Canucks pitiful loss in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup.

The image of a couple stealing a smooch amid chaos of riots has garnered lots of attention.

While a picture is worth a thousand words, it can also be deceiving. What looked like a romantic embrace was something else entirely, it was a moment of terror.

As the Toronto Star reports the couple, Scott Jones and Alexandra Thomas, got knocked down by a surge of police in riot gear. Just so happened that as Scott was trying to console and calm Alexandra down, a photographer caught the moment on tape.

But no matter the reason, this image has a shot at standing the test of time.

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