[ColdOne]

I was watching on TV. Did you see when that car pulled into the auto parts store? they jacked up the car. They went into the store and ran out with 4 new tires and wheels, tried to put them on the car. They didn’t like them or they didn’t fit and the perps ran back in the store and came out with 4 more. Put those on and drove off.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Sounds about right. I remember watching a hispanic man coming out of a broken store window with bundles of disposable diapers under his arms. It seemed that blacks were rioting over the Rodney King verdict, but that for a lot of the hispanics, particularly Central Americans, it was just "Free Day at the Store." I remember seeing a young Mexican-American man being asked why there was no looting in East L.A.. He said, "Why would we loot our parents' store?"

And curiously, there were a large number of dry cleaners that were burned down, many of them far from any other riot-related activity.