Here are some photos I dug up off of an old cameraphone. UNC and Duke have a ferocious basketball rivalry. These photos are from the celebration in Chapel Hill after a UNC victory, I think in the first of 2 UNC-Duke games in 2006, when i was working at ibiblio. The celebrations are happening on Franklin Street, just a 5 minute walk from the ibiblio office.
I didn’t have any UNC garb at the time, but I had various blue clothing items, the shade of which were, unfortunately, an even mix between Duke blue and UNC blue, so I got a lot of confused looks and the occasional expletive.
The photos are really poor quality, but the general idea is that there are couches and random piles of debris set aflame in the street, and there are people jumping through the fire.
The next day in a class I was taking, there was a kid whose arm and I think leg were wrapped in bandages, from burn wounds.
savages…