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Dozens of rampaging youths trashed a Wawa convenience store in northeast Philadelphia Saturday night — hurling food and drinks at one another as one belligerent young woman twerked on a counter, video of the chaos shows.
The rowdy group were captured on surveillance video — shot inside the chain location at 7001 Roosevelt Blvd. — as they ransacked the shop and recorded the pandemonium on their phones.
An employee filming the wild scene from behind a sandwich counter in the store can be heard scolding the vandals.
“You’re all stupid,” he said in the video. “For real. You’re all stupid, ugly, broke.”
A video of the aftermath shows the store completely ransacked. The floor is covered with items pulled off shelves, spilled drinks and trash.
The unruly crowd also broke several shelves at the shop, according to the footage.
The lawlessness apparently continued into the store parking lot where the vandals were caught yelling, cursing and fighting one another, the video shows.
Philadelphia police didn’t immediately respond to a request for information regarding the incident, including if there were any arrests.
Teenagers, 17 and under, in the city have a 10 p.m. curfew each night through the end of the month, though it’s not clear at what time the rowdy group ransacked the Wawa.
Lawmakers introduced the curfew over the summer to try to keep young people out of trouble as crime surges across the City of Brotherly Love.
As of Sept. 18, property crimes surged a whopping 32% from the same period last year and violent crimes were up nearly 7%.
Saturday’s vandalism mirrors a similar incident at a local business in the Germantown section of Philly last month.
In early August, a wild mob of teens trashed a Jamaican restaurant, Zion Cuisine, and attempted to harm its employees. The group flipped tables, threw chairs and other objects at workers and shattered a security glass inside the eatery, video shows.
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