The cur of the Bambino? State troopers arrested Foster's Daily Democrat staff photographer Aaron Rhode for shooting this picture of a police K9 taking a bite out of "crime" during a Red Sox World Series victory celebration on the University of New Hampshire campus in Durham.
That's what crowd control is all about- making people simmer down. I don't know why people have started to act like fools after games lately. We never used to before. Still, our idiots are pussycats compared to what they have overseas.
Mr. Cracker was on the street outside the stadium in Kiev when hooligans came pouring out after a soccer match. He stood aside and let a wave of them pass, then headed behind, walking to his apartment. They busted up everything they passed. He was surprised to hear on CNN the next day when he was on the plane home that this was described as an anti-Semitic attack, because a synagogue's windows got broken. He said the buildings left, right, and all over had their windows broken as well. There's plenty of genuine anti-Semitic nastiness without including soccer-hooliganism in the mix. I've read that there were people inside who came out and confronted these guys. For sure, there would have been a fight then.
He was there for a year and had a lot of interesting experiences, and although I would have had him give this one a miss, he was still an eye-witness to a little bit of history.