Two police vehicles were overturned and set alight.
More than a dozen police or chengguan officers were injured in the nighttime episode; 14 government vehicles were overturned or set on fire.
The couple enjoys long walks, traditional Tagalog cooking, and setting overturned cars on fire.
In the minds of many area residents, that was far preferable to previous excuses for downtown celebrations, like those that came after Super Bowl victories by the Denver Broncos in 1998 and 1999, when drunken revelers smashed windows, looted stores, overturned cars and set fires, leaving business owners with millions of dollars in damages.
Today, faced with one of the greatest insults to their national pride of recent times, not one of them is building a barricade or setting fire to an overturned Renault Clio.
The government of Tonga, an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand, bowed to pro-democracy protests and agreed to far-reaching political reforms after rioting crowds in the capital, Nuku'alofa, overturned cars, looted and set fire to shops and offices, and stoned government buildings, including the prime minister's office.
A riot broke out at a prison in southern Alabama, authorities said on Saturday, and a local news website said inmates had set fires, overturned beds and assaulted a corrections officer.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Angry, drunken fans ran wild Wednesday night after the Vancouver Canucks' 4-0 loss to Boston in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, setting cars and garbage cans ablaze, smashing windows, showering giant TV screens with beer bottles and dancing atop overturned vehicles.
His murder conviction was twice overturned – once in 1992 on grounds that he had received ineffective defense representation, and again in 2008 because of racial discrimination in setting up the grand jury that indicted him.
