I don’t know about you, but I always assumed that Canadians were the most mild-mannered humans on the planet. Like the type of person that you’d bump into on the subway and they’d apologize. I still think that’s probably true, except in this case…

Apparently this weekend the Boston Bruins beat out the Vancouver Canucks (oh, by the way, I’m talking about hockey here. In case you didn’t know. Because I didn’t know. Because hockey? Why?) for the Stanley Cup, the most coveted annual win in the sport. And instead of sulking away angrily and drowning their sorrows in Jack Daniels like we Americans do when we lose a sports game, all of Vancouver broke out in an unbelievably massive riot, which has reportedly killed nearly 150 people.

We’re talking flipping cars, punching police officers, looting, people getting maced, buildings set on fire… a 100% legit (although flat-out insane) riot. However, in the midst of all the chaos, the most intriguing photo released by the press was one of two people taking the “make love, not war” slogan to heart:

AWESOME, RIGHT? AWESOME!

Many sources are refuting the legitimacy of the photo, claiming the journalist who caught it had staged the whole thing, and to those people we say GET A LIFE, YOU HORRIBLE DREAM CRUSHERS, THIS PHOTO IS THE BEST! While thousands of their fellow Vancouver residents were setting cars on fire because their home team isn’t as good at playing a sport no one cares about, they’re instead enjoying the excitement by gettin’ frisky in the middle of the debauchery! Can’t we just accept the awesomeness and move on without all the childish “nuh uhhhh“s? What is this, kindergarten?!

(Note: the photographer claims that the reason the couple was on the floor in the first place was because they were basically run over by all those riot police in the background of the pic and the woman was hurt. Not quite as pleasant, but they’re still making out, so there.)

To the couple in this photo, who have just recently been identified, we said GOOD WORK! and to the rest of Vancouver, we say, calm yourself and go enjoy your crappy food and free healthcare. We’ll remember to let you win that gaudy silver mug next year.