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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
Comments   
Posted 12:46 AM, 10/30/2008
legionofdoom
Oy.
Posted 12:47 AM, 10/30/2008
Michael S.
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 12:49 AM, 10/30/2008
Reprehensible
Stay classy, Philadelphia.
Posted 01:05 AM, 10/30/2008
jdklein1975
Come on Philly. We look like morons.
Posted 01:07 AM, 10/30/2008
whatthe?
Who dem A-holes??
Posted 01:19 AM, 10/30/2008
phillyhank
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 01:30 AM, 10/30/2008
BlairW
Dem a-holes indeed. Just wait 6 days, you'll see what the Dems have in store. Government cheese for all!
Posted 01:33 AM, 10/30/2008
Gmilst1
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 01:45 AM, 10/30/2008
boundary
I hope no one out looting and rioting tonight complains about paying taxes. What a waste of police resources.
Posted 07:49 AM, 10/30/2008
Dierte
It was probably a bunch of Rays fans trying to frame the Phillies fans for pouring beer on their baby!!
Posted 11:16 AM, 10/30/2008
CHILLYFROMPHILLY
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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