[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', 'P')ick your city one and all. When four moderators/administrators agree that a particular city is the first to a) riot and b) due to economic factors we will declare the winners.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', 'P')ick your city one and all. When four moderators/administrators agree that a particular city is the first to a) riot and b) due to economic factors we will declare the winners.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

If you read the article, I think towards the bottom they mention it was brought on by economic tensions.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he shooting angered Greek youths, already resentful about a widening gap between rich and poor. Violence at student rallies and fire bomb attacks by anarchists are common, especially in Athens' Exarchia district where the boy was shot.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'I')f you read the article, I think towards the bottom they mention it was brought on by economic tensions.

[Quinny]

As I see it anyone who choese Athens desrves it because

1) Economic factors are a major part

and

2) Athens !! They must be prescient

My intial ? Did anyone pick Athens?

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Header_Rack Los Angeles CA USA
Spanktron9 Los Angeles CA
double down: S. of the 10, east of the 405, west of the 60
IndigoMoon Chicago Il
Ludi Los Angeles CA
DaveP Liverpool England UK
The48thronin Seoul South Korea
emeraldg40 Atlanta GA
Specop_007 Atlanta GA
EastBay Los Angeles CA
Ainan Los Angeles CA
Cloud9 Miami FL
latestarter Miami FL
novus Las Vegas NV
Kristen Atlanta GA
Magus Los Angeles CA
wisconsin_cur Lahore Pakistan
ReverseEngineer Atlanta GA
Loki Los Angeles
NYC
Detroit
DoomLover666 Los Angeles CA
Quinny Paris France (I assume you did not mean Illinois)
Island Crow Bangkok Thailand
nobodypanic Reykjavik Iceland
---------------------------Deadline ------------------
Revi Los Angeles CA

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[idiom]

NobodyPanic got a dud. I guess those Icelanders just won't riot come hell or highwater.

[Quinny]

Nobody chose Athens - Prize should go to nearest City

[ReverseEngineer]

How about we do this by country, rather than trying to pick one city Worldwide which was the "first" to Riot?

Which city in the USA will be first? Which Canadian city? Which German City? Etc.

We can have more winners this way, plus also individual posters from each country do have I would think a better "feel" for what is going on there. One problem we have with Greece is just there don't seem to be any Greek members here. This kind of put Greece off the Radar for discussion. Also really tough is the PRC. Information about what is happening inside the PRC is VERY restricted, a million people could be rioting there as we speak and nobody in the West would know about it. Maybe if it was in Beijing we might find out about it, but not out in some of the smaller (but still HUGE) cities out in the provinces.

I'm still holding to Atlanta as my choice for first American City, based on some of the posting from GA residents here. LA is a tinderbox also though, so its a tough call.

Reverse Engineer

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ReverseEngineer', '
')
We can have more winners this way,

[Revi]

I've been to Athens, but I didn't pick it because it seemed so mellow. So does Copenhagen, but you should see the place on New Years Eve!

Athens has a lot of people crammed into 3 and 4 story apartment blocks.

I say we give it to nobody panic. Iceland had a little protest.

[catbox]

I think China has a good chance on getting nutty...we don't buy, they don't work:

Link 1


Link 2

Good times!

[wisconsin_cur]

Europe is Afraid


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he protests continued yesterday and more demonstrations are planned. Some see a foretaste of the next phase of the global financial crisis, sensing in the tear gas and chants a warning to European leaders of what may unfold elsewhere if they do not take into account the frustrations of their people.

Sympathy protests from Moscow to Madrid helped to fuel such concerns, as did Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, who mentioned the Greek upheaval to justify his rejection of budget proposals that would have cushioned the wealthy from losses.

[wisconsin_cur]

Ok, I'll buy in that Athens is the winner:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hose of us who live here - who have seen how frayed the fabric of public order can become - now know, in no uncertain terms, that the orgy of violence that has gripped this beautiful land masks a deeper malaise. It is a sickness that starts not so much at the top but at the bottom of Greek society, in the ranks of its troubled youth. For many these are a lost generation, raised in an education system that is undeniably shambolic and hit by whopping levels of unemployment (70 per cent among the 18-25s) in a country where joblessness this month jumped to 7.4 per cent. If they can find work remuneration rarely rises above €700 (this is, after all, the self-styled €700 generation), never mind the number of qualifications it took to get the job. Often polyglot PhD holders will be serving tourists at tables in resorts. One in five Greeks lives beneath the poverty line. Exposed to the ills of Greek society as never before, they have also become increasingly frustrated witnesses of allegations of corruption implicating senior conservative government officials and a series of scandals that have so far cost four ministers their jobs.

With these grievances in mind, young people (who would not normally see themselves as revolutionaries and are a far-cry from the 'extremists' Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis says are behind the disturbances) have begun stockpiling stones, rocks and crushed marble slabs from Salonika in the north to the resort islands of Corfu and Crete in the south.

They have also started selling them on - at three stones a euro - to other protesters whose parents may live in Hollywood-style opulence, or indeed on the breadline, but who are bonded by a common desire to hurl them at that hated symbol of authority: the police.

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

I think we should pick the first city that someone on the list chose to go up, not the nearest city. Its not the same thing. So the winner would be the first of our choices even if in all it was the 5th city to go up world wide.

Might get some to pick other cities instead of having 6 LA's and 5 Atlanta's etc. And it would keep the bets going longer instead of already calling a winner.

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'I') think we should pick the first city that someone on the list chose to go up, not the nearest city. Its not the same thing. So the winner would be the first of our choices even if in all it was the 5th city to go up world wide.

Might get some to pick other cities instead of having 6 LA's and 5 Atlanta's etc. And it would keep the bets going longer instead of already calling a winner.

[Byron100]

Yeah, maybe I'll get lucky and get to see my own city (Atlanta) riot...LOL.

Heck, we've already had a gasoline shortage, and there's still the chance we could run out of water, should the summer drought return next year. Jobs are vanishing like summer dew around here, and houses are being foreclosed upon at some of the fastest rates in the country, so it really might not be that long before this city burns.

I'll be sure to post video footage of such an event if it really does happen here.

[dorlomin]

Cairo had some pretty serious demonstrations about food this year, it has a deeply dissafected population, lots of youths and is the home of both Muslim Brotherhood and Qutb. Too late to enter and not too bothered but Id have said Cairo was close to the top of contenders.

Someone has already gotten Paris, possibly the only city in the world that regards it history of rioting with pride. Much of the city is deliberately built too make it harder for roiters. Some of the most famous ones being during the French revolution, 1871 when the city was taken over by the commune, 1944 just before the allies arrived, 1968 when student Marxists thought they had started a revolution and 2005. "The French are revolting".

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', '
')I agree that some city within mainland China maybe the first or the biggest to riot. I question whether a million could riot and we would never know. Much smaller... disturbances are published regularly in the world press.

[Quinny]

So who would have won.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('wisconsin_cur', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'I') think we should pick the first city that someone on the list chose to go up, not the nearest city. Its not the same thing. So the winner would be the first of our choices even if in all it was the 5th city to go up world wide.

Might get some to pick other cities instead of having 6 LA's and 5 Atlanta's etc. And it would keep the bets going longer instead of already calling a winner.