Subscribe
The Daily Grind Video
CLOSE

In the midst of the riots that descended on Vancouver after the city’s hockey team lost the Stanley Cup final, one couple found a way to turn the chaos into romance. News sources went crazy trying to find out who the hell were these people and what was the idea was behind the couple’s love session?

The lovers were identified today as Canadian Alexandra Thomas and her Australian boyfriend Scott Jones. 

In their first interview, the couple said they are ‘totally stunned’ by how their intimate moment has been seen across the globe.

When I first saw it, I thought, “No way, that’s not… I can’t believe that’s us”,’ said Alexandra Thomas.

‘Then I looked some more and realized, that is us. That’s a very revealing picture of us.’

Miss Thomas and her boyfriend had been watching the game at a downtown bar when the rioting broke out and they became surrounded police.

As violence broke out around them, the couple were photographed as they tenderly kissed amongst the chaos.

‘I was trying to understand what was going on. The photo was definitely not something we expected to happen,’ Miss Thomas told the Toronto Star.

Mr Jones said that he kissed his girlfriend as he tried to calm her after they were run over by riot police.

‘The riot police ran on top of us,’ said Mr Jones. ‘They ran us over.

‘We were knocked over, and I was just trying to calm her down, because as I’m sure you can imagine, she was somewhat distraught,’ he told ABC News.

As the couple spoke for the first time, new video emerged of the moments before the infamous kiss.

The footage, shot from a rooftop, shows police in riot gear next to the couple before they embrace.

The couple met shortly after Mr Jones, 29, arrived in Canada six months ago. He has been working as a bar tender, while he tries to make it as a stand-up comedian.

Miss Thomas is a recent graduate from the University of Guelph in Ontario.

Mr Jones’ father Brett today said that the couple were ‘totally overwhelmed’ by all the coverage they had received.

‘They are both just totally stunned by it, actually,’ he said.

(DailyMail)

[pagebreak]

The kissing couple on the streets of Vancouver.

[pagebreak]

The woman who is part of the kissing couple, Canadian Alexandra Thomas.

[pagebreak]

The other half of the kissing couple, Alexandra’s Australian boyfriend, Scott Jones.