Riot kissers tentatively identified

[Renew Deal]

It was the smooch seen round the world, and now we know the passionate couple's names. At least, we think we do.

The couple were photographed lying in a romantic-looking embrace in the middle of a Vancouver, British Columbia, street while a post-hockey game riot swirled around them Wednesday night.

Australian website ninemsn identified the couple as Perth native Scott Jones and his girlfriend, Alexandra Thomas of Vancouver, after Jones' sister and mother came forward.

"It is something he would do; that's our boy," his mother, Megan Jones of Perth, told ninemsn. "He has always lived in his own world. He's special like that. He doesn't always connect with what's going on around him."
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Brett Jones of Perth, who told the Toronto Star he is Scott Jones' father, said the picture is legitimate but is not what it seems.

"She had actually been injured," Brett Jones told the Star. A riot police officer had knocked her down with a shield, he said. "He lay down next to her to comfort her. She was crying, and he just kissed her to calm her down."
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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/17/riot-kissers-tentatively-identified

This is a modern day times square kiss. Is it as iconic?

[October]

1. That is exactly what I compared it to when I saw it yesterday!

Fascinating

[librechik]

2. Cut and Print!

and don't miss next summer's most arousing new action movie "Hockey Riot II" starring Vancouver and Boston (again)

[gratuitous]

3. Yes, it is as iconic

And with more butt cleavage, so it's better.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. that was what I noticed, too.

I didn't even realize there was a dude in there, at first.

[Bosonic]

5. Myth Busting?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13807494">...But details are emerging which suggest the battlefield clinch may not be all it seems and that instead of a moment of careless abandon the woman may have been injured in the unrest and was being comforted rather than embraced...

[-..__...]

11. Given the charecter of crowd that was present...

He could have been robbing her or copping a cheap feel from an unconscious woman.

[AsahinaKimi]

6. Looks like a scene from a movie...

I bet someone from Hollywood is planning that in their next film...

[JBoy]

7. This was the lead news story on the Vancouver noon news.

[Withywindle]

8. "The Riot Kissers" is a great band name. n/t

[Johonny]

9. now if they can only identify and arrest the people that did all the damage

[Hosnon]

10. Nowhere near as iconic because of the surrounding circumstances.

Jubilation following victory in WWII vs. Petulance following defeat in a hockey game.

(Note: Not referring to either kissing couple.)