"Leafs bashing week" continues here at 'Nucks and Pucks with a story of one fan's need to physically manifest his hatred of the Blue & White by crushing a car that is painted, well, blue and white.
The photo above is a scan of Monday's copy of that well-respected journalistic rag, 24 Hours. Widely considered to be the "New York Times of Vancouver," 24 Hours brings its insightful brand of reportage to Vancouver commuters each weekday. Seems it's also jumped aboard the anti-Leaf train with an interesting little contest.
Yes, 24 Hours ran an eBay auction offering one 'lucky' fan the anti-Leafs experience of a lifetime: pushing a button to crush a beater car that is painted up in Leafs colours. The winning bidder paid $212.50 (!) for the privilege of pressing that button, and it all went down last Saturday. If you want to learn more, check out the auction page or the 24 Hours gallery, which has 19 pictures of the mechanical carnage. Or even better, watch the video (slight profanity warning):
Wow. Not quite Citizen Kane, is it? There are a number of things that don't quite work about this video:
1. Who pulls into a scrap yard to use the facilities? What's wrong with Tim Hortons or a gas station?
2. Who pulls over to use a porta-potty? Seriously. The dude's suposed to be in suburban Vancouver, not at Lollapalooza.
3. Why would there happen to be a crowd of Canucks fans hanging out in said scrap yard, when they clearly have no business being there?
4. Wouldn't there be serious legal ramifications for the guys who crushed the car? If I was that Leafs fan the second call I was making after 9-1-1 would be to my lawyer.
5. And finally, what's the deal with what appears to be a set of giant inflatable testicles with a Leafs logo on them, which appear at around the 1:28 mark? If they were onscreen for any less time I think it would qualify as subliminal messaging.
Turns out the guy's a Sens fan too. I think that explains it, because as much as I'm all for anti-Leafs banter this is a tad too ridiculous for me. Anyway, if he wanted to make an anti-Leafs statement doesn't he realize that for $212.50 he could have bought, like, six Eric Lindros Leafs jerseys and burned them? Although come to think of it, wearing a Lindros Toronto jersey might be the ultimate mockery of the Maple Leafs...
On a positive note, the $212.50 will go to Canucks Place which is a very worthy charity.
2 comments:
come on. being a leafs fan, i must say i was born this way it was not a choice. and as such to make fun of us is a form of bigotry. I dont know how you can propagate this hatred Mr. Norman, its truly shocking. this kind of hatred should be directed towards a team no one is born to love nor have any good reason to support...the sens.
After Saturdays Toronto victory you can imagine that weird Toronto Maple Leafs scrotum from this video bumping you in the chin repeatedly
GO LEAFS GO
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