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How much would it take to turn the people in your home town into looters?

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"A total breakdown of law and order" or less than that?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:09 (twenty-two years ago)

A sudden influx of rich black people.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing good on tv. . .

― That Girl (thatgirl), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

and what abt the use of the term "looting" anyway, which always sounds less criminal than "nicking", "stealing", "robbing" ect ect?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

three dollars

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Habs win the Stanley Cup.

― slutsky (slutsky), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

A major blackout.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

It happened in a number of places in the UK in the early '80s - riots, complete with looting, in most major cities.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

It happens in my hometown every May. It's called the "Kentucky Derby."

― hstencil, Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

It happens in my hometown every May. It's called the "Kentucky Derby."

Well, somebody should put a stop to this! WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

It happens in my hometown every winter. It's called "Mardi Gras."

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

NEVER! It's been going on since 1875.

― hstencil, Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Around here we just call it "Thursday".

― That Girl (thatgirl), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin, I assume you mean Brixton, St. Paul's in Bristol, Toxteth, Handsworth, Moss Side. Just abt remember the riots in those, tho the one that was local to me (Broadwater Farm, Tottenham) was later and so I have clearer memories of it. Are looters by & large opportunists who, seeing there's a riot on, or even a war, will steal because attention is focussed elsewhere? And what proportion of the popn will be involved in the looting? is it always a small minority?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

if you couldn't get Tetleys on draught.

― matthew james (matthew james), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)


I misread this, thoought, it said 'lobsters'..

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

start one called that Gatinha! Please!

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

How much would it take to turn the people in your home town into looters?

What do you mean turn them into?

― Skottie, Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

and now its over to Skottie, our Baghdad correspondent....

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i was gonna say that lotsa cities end up looting and rioting when the home sports team wins some championship or other ... but i was beaten to the punch.

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 13 April 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny this topic should come up now. I don't know if looting was involved, but we just had a riot here last night because our hockey team (the "Golden Gophers" woo who the fuck cares) won the championship. There was tear gas involved and everything. My brother and wife were unfortunate enough be caught in the middle of the worst of it while driving. It's a miracle the car only has one small dent. I saw other cars with busted out windows, and one car was lit on fire and is completely fucked.
Why do people riot when their team wins!? It seems so stupid. Why not riot when their team loses?

― Dan I., Sunday, 13 April 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Stolen tv's ain't no balm for the agony of defeat!

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 13 April 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

The Gophers won???? WOOOOO!!!!!!!!! *overturns keyboard and sets it on fire*

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 13 April 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Why not riot when their team loses?

They do that too! See East Lansing a couple years ago when Michigan State lost to Duke in basketball. Did they riot in Bloomington last year? I can't remember.

Anyway, yeah I've witnessed looting. When the Bulls won their first championship back in 1991. It was my first year in college in Chicago, and after they won the game a couple dorm mates and I decided to go downtown to witness the revelry firsthand. I witnessed one person throw a beer bottle at the window to a Gap store on the Mag Mile, then another and another until the window busted and hordes of people entered the store and pilfered stuff.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 13 April 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

If I can get just one person to come with me, I'll go loot all of the Upper East Side, right this second, for lack of more interesting thing to do.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 13 April 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, also, when I went to ASU, once a week practically, the kids would riot the football stadium, steal the goalposts, and parade all over town with them. I wasn't involved, somehow. I was afraid of being arrested for something so dense, but no one ever was. What kind of incompetant cops can't find 40 drunken frat boys carring a giant goal post?

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 13 April 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

we didn't riot at rutgers. but that was because all of our sports teams sucked and never won shit (except our soccer team, but who cares about soccer?)

then there's the halloween hijinks in places like Detroit and Camden, NJ -- instead of trick-or-treat, burn down whole city blocks of buildings!

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 13 April 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

If I can get just one person to come with me, I'll go loot all of the Upper East Side, right this second, for lack of more interesting thing to do.

go over the Upper West Side, or across the East River into Williamsburg and i'll be so there dude!

― Tad (llamasfur), Sunday, 13 April 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Most of thee people in the village where I live are elderly, and poss past the age of effective looting anyway. Given thee amount ofcharver action that gans doon roond wor plyece in the toon where aa werk, possibly people would not notice immediately if everyone did get into looting.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Sunday, 13 April 2003 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Alright, as long as we don't loot my house, we'll do the UWS. FIRST WE'LL TAKE MANHATTAN, THEN WE'LL TAKE BERLIN. I knew there was a reason I knew the words to that stupid song.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 13 April 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Everywhere in DC that is not Upper Northwest: A major blackout, the assassination of Jesse Jackson (assuming the reaction would be similar to that spurred by the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), or the Redskins winning the Super Bowl.

Upper Northwest DC: Why loot? A well-crafted tax bill loots the havenots on behalf of the haves so much more efficiently.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

FWIW, there was rioting in Bloomington when the bobby knight trouble was going down.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think Wanganui-ites will ever riot. Except if my 85 yr old neighbour has her way and they confiscate all the young men's car keys.

We go in more for occupations in these parts.

― isadora (isadora), Monday, 14 April 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

What, like, a sit-in at the local caff? :)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 14 April 2003 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I witnessed one person throw a beer bottle at the window to a Gap store on the Mag Mile, then another and another until the window busted and hordes of people entered the store and pilfered stuff.

This is the funniest thing: imagine all those middle-class people, desperate for the blandest clothes imaginable, ravening their way politely through the Gap. Arf. I have a Gap twinset on today. Didn't loot it though.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 14 April 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

They'd have to run out of smack/Tenants Super.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 14 April 2003 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned's father can answer that question for my home town better than I can.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 14 April 2003 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. But his memories of 1958 to 1962 might not be easily applicable to the Modern Day.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 April 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

What it takes round here is something not being nailed down.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)


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