'Role Model' Rioter

She's young, pretty, athletic, and she's gotten lots of hugs from an appreciative society. So what's she doing cooling her heels in a London jail? The New York Daily News reveals all:

The brick-tossing rioter on the television news looked familiar to Adrienne Ives - who quickly called police and turned in her daughter.

Chelsea Ives, 18, was ordered held without bail Friday after her parents implicated their child in the deadly violence that gripped London.

"I had to do what was right," Adrienne Ives, 47, told The Telegraph. "(Husband) Roger and I were watching the news, and it was absolutely sickening. And then we saw our daughter among the crowds."

Ives, an athlete and role model chosen as a volunteer ambassador for next year's Olympics, had met with London Olympics head Sebastian Coe and London Mayor Boris Johnson.

But prosecutors said Ives hurled bricks at a store and at a marked police car during Sunday rioting in north London. She remained behind bars pending a hearing next Wednesday...

At least she has parents who are absolutely sickened by such antics, which is probably more than you can say for plenty of other rioters.

Chelsea reminds me of that chicklet in Vancouver, the one who was caught on film helping herself to some merchandise during the rioting that followed the city's Stanley Cup loss. She, too, was a fresh-faced lass who, as a UBC student of environmentalism, could be seen as a "role model".