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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.  
Posted by Vernon Loeb @ 12:34 AM  Permalink | 11 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:46 AM, 10/30/2008
    Oy.
    — legionofdoom
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 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.
    — Michael S.
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:49 AM, 10/30/2008
    Stay classy, Philadelphia.
    — Reprehensible
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:05 AM, 10/30/2008
    Come on Philly. We look like morons.
    — jdklein1975
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:07 AM, 10/30/2008
    Who dem A-holes??
    — whatthe?
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:19 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!
    — phillyhank
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:30 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!
    — BlairW
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:33 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.
    — Gmilst1
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:45 AM, 10/30/2008
    I hope no one out looting and rioting tonight complains about paying taxes. What a waste of police resources.
    — boundary
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 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.
    — CHILLYFROMPHILLY


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