The San Francisco Giants have won the World Series, beating the Texas Rangers 3-1, but some fans have a peculiar way of celebrating, taking to the streets, getting violent, and generally wreak havoc.
But as shop looting and cab stealing plays out in the real world, it is also unfolding in real time on the new social media.
If you’ve been online or using your Smart Phone in the past couple of hours, you’ve no doubt learned of the hoopla via Foursquare, Twitter, UStream, or one of the several social media sites that are buzzing with hashtags like #SFRiot or #SFScanner.
Twitter user “VanillaBrooke” tweeted, “Isn’t winning a world series something to celebrate over, not riot over? You’re vandalizing your own city!”
Social media sites like Twitter are allowing breaking news to reach city outsiders quicker than ever, but the onlookers are also likely to include law enforcement agencies.
They would be particularly interested in tweets like this one by user AvramC: “Looting Safeway, bringing my own damn *plastic” bags. #sfriot”
It’s really unclear if some of these tweets are serious or in jest. One Tweeter claims to have witnessed a taxi cab being stolen.
User mdburnell said, “When the guy got in the cab, he said he wanted to go to Fremont, and then he decided to carjack it anyway #SFriot #SFscanner.”
User Oakcliffsweety replies, “@mdburnell: That guy gave new meaning to ‘taking a cab’ LOL #SFScanner #SFRiot”.
“I wonder if the SFPD and the SFPD Dispatchers know that everything they do is being repeated on twitter? #SFriot #SFscanner,” Tweeted mdburnell.
We hope so, mdburnell.
San Francisco Giants Win World Series, Some Violence Ensues
The San Francisco Giants have won the World Series, beating the Texan Rangers 3-1, and fans have taken to the streets to riot in celebration.
11/2/2010
Updated: 9/29/2015
[youtube]CJu3mTBFriM[/youtube] Home video of revelers throwing bottles at police
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