Moments after the Red Sox' 10-3 ALCS win early Thursday, some 80,000 delirious Boston faithful poured out from bars and clubs. Fans went out of control, burning a car, hurling bottles and clashing with riot cops, resulting in 16 injuries and eight arrests. One cop's nose was broken by a flying bottle and officials are considering banning alcohol sales during the World Series games. The chaos reached its fiery climax on Boylston Street, a block from Fenway, when a few hundred drunken hooligans attacked a parked Nissan Xterra that bore New York plates. The crowd smashed its windows and set it on fire.
Hell I guess we should let them get it out of their system and leave the cops at home.
I haven't heard anything about that. Not even in the Boston Herald. The NYpost has it wrong.
It was not that bad. Isolated pockets of bad behavior. The people responsible were the bottle throwers. They got the police unsettled, which led to the accidental shot in the wrong direction.
-T