OJ (With Pulp)

Walking up Yonge Street after Canada won the gold medal game against the U.S., I saw the most amazing street celebration I've ever seen.

Never seen so many smiles. My hand was hurting from high fiving people. One of them was an incredibly cute woman Toronto cop.

I watched a guy scale a lamp post at Yonge-Dundas square. And get arrested the moment he climbed down, despite a huge crowd of people chanting, "Let him go! Let him go!" when four bicycle cops showed up to haul him away.

I saw guys dancing atop bus shelters. Waving huge Canadian flags. Yonge-Dundas sqaure jammed with thousands of people (the traffic had been stopped eight or more blocks up and down). People of all colours, sizes, shapes and makes waving Canadian flags and celebrating a win in the game we love the most. Didn't matter what else went on, we'd won the Olympics! The total medal tally didn't count... only that we'd won hockey gold. On a goal by golden boy Sidney Crosby.

Cars. Honking. People sticking out of moon roofs, chanting and waving flags. Hanging out of windows screaming their heads off. Guys running shirtless in minus zero temperatures, waving flags all the way up from Yonge-Dundas to Yonge-Bloor. In between traffic. Getting hugged and high fived by beautiful girls all the way up.

And finally (before I got tired and decided to hop on the subway for the rest of the way home).... the flash mobs at Yonge-Bloor. With the cops watching, groups of people would charge into the intersection and dance while the lights were all-way walk. And disperse as the lights turned green for the cars. And then back on again when it was all-way walk. Over and over and over again. And it was never the same group of people. It was people walking to intersection to go somewhere, getting caught up in the moment. And participating. And moving on. Incredible. And the cops watched. Did nothing.

Here the only photos I got (sorry they're in reverse order and I don't have the patience to fix that right now!). From my cheap $5 cell phone. I wish I had my camera with me.

Flash Mobs at Yonge-Bloor