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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Fan Watch: Looting on Broad Street
The crowd outside Robinson Luggage gets rowdy. (Elizabeth Robertson / Staff Photographer)

Matt Katz writes:

The looting on South Broad Street began shortly after midnight. Four men went inside the Robinson Luggage outlet at Broad and Walnut — through a busted glass door — and came out with about half dozen pieces of luggage. The cops immediately responded, but the men were able to run off.

Jonathan Tamari writes:

At Cottman and Frankford Avenues, the celebration took a nasty turn about 12:20 a.m. Police begin breaking up the crowd to give firefighters a chance to get to some small blazes, and the people responded by throwing bottles at officers.  

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Posted by legionofdoom 12:46 AM, 10/30/2008
Oy.
Posted by Michael S. 12:47 AM, 10/30/2008
There's always some knuckleheads that have to cause trouble. The city will wake up in the morning with yet another black eye from the national media.
Posted by Reprehensible 12:49 AM, 10/30/2008
Stay classy, Philadelphia.
Posted by jdklein1975 01:05 AM, 10/30/2008
Come on Philly. We look like morons.
Posted by whatthe? 01:07 AM, 10/30/2008
Who dem A-holes??
Posted by phillyhank 01:19 AM, 10/30/2008
How embarassing!!!! From the old city PR song....."Philadelphia...Get To Know Us". What jerks! I'm out of town for a business conference. Instead of going to the morning meetings with a subtle sense of smugness over the Phillies victory, i am likely to hear about the uncivil behavior of a bunch of cretins. Hopefully, it will be another generation before Philadelphia sees another major sports championship!
Posted by BlairW 01:30 AM, 10/30/2008
Dem a-holes indeed. Just wait 6 days, you'll see what the Dems have in store. Government cheese for all!
Posted by Gmilst1 01:33 AM, 10/30/2008
Wow. I was at the game tonight and took the subway there and back. When I got off the subway around 11pm on broad street, we came out right there where Robinson Luggage is located. The first thing I saw was somebody being arrested. People were ripping down the Phillies Flags that were hanging on each street. I left around 12 pm, and their were no "looting" at that time. Just a huge crowd of people going nuts that the PHILS ARE WORLD SERIES CHAMPS. The whole scene was crazy though.
Posted by boundary 01:45 AM, 10/30/2008
I hope no one out looting and rioting tonight complains about paying taxes. What a waste of police resources.
Posted by Dierte 07:49 AM, 10/30/2008
It was probably a bunch of Rays fans trying to frame the Phillies fans for pouring beer on their baby!!
Posted by CHILLYFROMPHILLY 11:16 AM, 10/30/2008
hey! if you've been waiting 25 plus years to loot and you loot a luggage store?idiots! now if someone looted a flat panel tv store hit me up! lol! nah just kidding, congrats phillies and all of philly.
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