Calm returns to glass-littered streets of Oakland




From Dan Majors

1 a.m.

The broken glass toll on Forbes is everything reported earlier plus the Rite Aid pharmacy and the McDonald's and the Subway restaurants.
Police presence has dissipated and the activity on Forbes has been reduced to students coming out to look at the damage done.

One student, Amanda Eggert, 20, a junior at Pitt, was one of those on the street afterwards. "We're hungry and we wanted a late-night snack," she said outside the boarded-up McDonald's on Forbes. "We're just trying to live our normal lives. What did McDonald's ever do except make delicious chicken nuggets?"

City public works employees were on the scene by 1 to sweep up glass and board up broken windows.

Posted Sep 25 2009, 01:17 AM by Lillian Thomas

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G-20 articles and discussion - Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania (PA) - Page 29 - City-Data Forum wrote G-20 articles and discussion - Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania (PA) - Page 29 - City-Data Forum
on Fri, Sep 25 2009 1:28 AM

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Coyote06 wrote re: Calm returns to glass-littered streets of Oakland
on Fri, Sep 25 2009 2:33 AM

Yeah, what did McDonalds ever do?  Besides making people work in horrible conditions at every stage of production?  Clearcutting in Brazil?  Selling genetically modified foods without telling people?  Marketing *** food to children?  Profiting off of the misery of people all over the world?

Coyote06 wrote re: Calm returns to glass-littered streets of Oakland
on Fri, Sep 25 2009 2:33 AM
Low Wick wrote re: Calm returns to glass-littered streets of Oakland
on Fri, Sep 25 2009 6:28 AM

Sure, Coyote, McDonald's is a terrible global citizen--it would be hard to argue that point.  But are you telling me that all of the store windows that got smashed last night were specifically targeted by strategic protestors who were busting things up to make a point?  If that's the case, what global crime has the Irish Design Center--a small business on Craig--done?  This was random vandalism that happened in an adrenaline-infused moment.  Let's not glorify it too much.

mmppgh wrote re: Calm returns to glass-littered streets of Oakland
on Fri, Sep 25 2009 8:16 AM

What did McDonald ever do?  Please.  I'm far from an anti-corporate, anti-establishment person but even I know that McDonalds is not exactly a responsible corporate citizen.  

I think they are targeting certain corporate businesses, but why Pamela's and the Irish Design Center was hit I don't know.  I agree that it those instances it was people caught up in the moment.  This is the part that upset me to begin with that these people from parts unknown will come in to target and damage the city we live in.  Go destroy businesses in your own city if you want to make a statement.

notAbaseballfan wrote re: Calm returns to glass-littered streets of Oakland
on Fri, Sep 25 2009 8:21 AM

So, Coyote06, you're telling me that smashing the window of my friend's McDs franchise is sending the world a message that they are an evil tyrant.  I'm sure his wife and two kids got that message, too.  Nice work.  The victims of your anarchist friends are people, not corporations.