The champagne cork has popped, ladies and gentleman of NW, and the crazy DC bubbles are racing to knock each other around. I can't help but celebrate the acts of violence the riots have sparked. Call me anti-patriotic, but when I saw the sheepish response to food stealing--people putting their hands compulsively on their wallets when they walked their children to school, women covering up their hootchie shirts, men going out to get groceries and fast-walking home--I couldn't help but be disgusted with the gentrified lot of us.
Here's what I've heard about the bonanza of sinful acts since the initial outbreak:
1. 3 dogs in Dupont circle go missing. The buzz at the Jolt-n-Bolt coffee shop is that people are saying there's a dog-stalker feeding off dog meat. Ok, this I really I can't revel in.
2. Numerous men in masks have thrown rocks through Harris Teeter's sliding glass doors.
3. The ABC board will be taking a vote tomorrow night to revoke all Taverna licenses from bar selling food, because they're worried rioters might attempt to hold up smaller establishments.
4. Ok, this is the big one. Police have arrested more than 60 rioters outside the Giant supermarket in Columbia Heights. There's word that families are gathering at an undisclosed location to retaliate for some pretty brutal scuffles with local teenagers.
More as it comes in....
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