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On the 14th of February, 1999. A group of angry individuals entered the Bamna7 Tv store and started an altercation, because a week earlier apparantly one of the employees promised that the store was organizing a 'free tv day'. But after the store opened in the morning of the 14th, they quickly found out it was all a ruse. Young mobs started looking for trouble and caused havoc in the store, later going down the street screaming and attempting to engage in a fistfight with multiple people looking at the situation unfold. A patrol car showed up but things quickly started to go south, with people now looting several other stores which most of them were Tv or other electrical appliance stores. | On the 14th of February, 1999. A group of angry individuals entered the Bamna7 Tv store and started an altercation, because a week earlier apparantly one of the employees promised that the store was organizing a 'free tv day'. But after the store opened in the morning of the 14th, they quickly found out it was all a ruse. Young mobs started looking for trouble and caused havoc in the store, later going down the street screaming and attempting to engage in a fistfight with multiple people looking at the situation unfold. A patrol car showed up but things quickly started to go south, with people now looting several other stores which most of them were Tv or other electrical appliance stores. | ||
Young rebellious people saw this as an oppertunity to create chaos, as they now started throwing items at police cars, and going as far as looting even non-tv or appliance stores. And | Young rebellious people saw this as an oppertunity to create chaos, as they now started throwing items at police cars, and going as far as looting even non-tv or appliance stores. And repeatedly screaming 'Free tv's! Free tv's! Get YOUR free tv's! | ||
== Location and spread == | == Location and spread == | ||
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Crime had a slight increase for the following years but quickly decreased and stagnated when Glenview's gentrification wave hit. But this event is still remembered to this day, and has made a lot of stores be more secure and protected as they were before. | Crime had a slight increase for the following years but quickly decreased and stagnated when Glenview's gentrification wave hit. But this event is still remembered to this day, and has made a lot of stores be more secure and protected as they were before. | ||
Unfortunately, a lot of tv were stolen or destroyed. | Unfortunately, a lot of tv's were stolen or destroyed. |
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