
The couple caught kissing during the Vancouver riots has been identified. The guy is 29 year-old Scott Jones, who has been living in the city for only six months, and the girl is his girlfriend, Alexandra Thomas, an environmental engineering graduate from the University of Guelph.
PHOTO: Couple Caught Making Out At Vancouver Riot
The guy was identified by his mother, who said, “I knew it was him because he doesn’t have a lot of clothes with him and he always puts on the same thing. I’d have to have my house flooded to get on the news, but he just has to kiss a beautiful girl.”
The proud mama added, “It is something he would do, that’s our boy. He has always lived in his own world, he’s special like that. He doesn’t always connect with what going on around him.”
Scott’s father, Brett Jones, explained what exactly happened when his son and the girl were caught by the lenses of a photographer, Rich Lam, who was sent to cover the riot on the streets.
“She had actually been injured,” Brett Jones told the Star Friday morning from his home in Perth, Australia. “She had been knocked down by a shield” from the riot police.“He lay down next to her to comfort her. She was crying and he just kissed her to calm her down.”
“I don’t think he’s come to grips with it. The full force of it is going to hit him today,” he told the paper.
Wow. That is quite a love story! Alexandra could not believe their “moment” became an internet sensation. Ironically, she revealed that she and Scott will head to California, where they will spend some romantic time together before he has to return to Australia.
“When I first saw it, I thought, ‘No way, that’s not … I can’t believe that’s us,’ ” said Thomas in an interview with the Toronto Star this morning. “Then I looked some more and realized, that is us. That’s a very revealing picture of us.”
“I was trying to understand what was going on. The photo was definitely not something we expected to happen,” said Thomas. “When I saw that picture I couldn’t believe it and then I looked at it more and realize it’s quite artistic and really something beautiful.”
The lovebirds are coming to America. You know what that means… lots of interviews! Everybody wants to know all about their love story. And what happened in that moment? Or is Scott really THAT incredibly romantic?