METROPOLIS - As late as July 5th, The downtown area still is having its share of looting in the aftermath of the 'Zod world engine' attacks on Friday, June 14th.
According to Metropolis Police Commissioner Maggie Sawyer, four women in the downtown area where General Zod's 'World Engine" struck were arrested Monday after allegedly breaking into a Radio Shack.
According to witnesses, the women, who ranged in age from 16 to 49, might have been store employees. Radio Shack did not respond to The Daily Planet’s request for comment.
On Wednesday, 18 people were arrested for rifling through a Key Foods in Suicide Slum. Two men and a woman were arrested for robbing a Lexcorp gas station, and police arrested six people for allegedly looting a liquor store in East Metropolis, the Police Department confirmed in an email to The Daily Planet.
In Centennial Park, four men ages 18 to 30 were arrested and charged with burglary after breaking into Schumacher's, a sneaker store at 288 Mulberry Street in New Troy. The store had been burglarized during the Alien mothership attack Friday, boarded up with a piece of plywood and locked. Burglars allegedly made off with 30 pairs of sneakers worth $30,000, about $1,000 a pair, according to the MPD.
Some looters even shamelessly posed as Metropower workers to get inside homes.
“When they told us it was safe to go back to our homes, I ran home to feed my cats,” Martine Erickson, a 33-year-old housewife who lives in Metropolis’s Centennial Park, told the Daily Planet. “Guys were looting, telling people they were aliens from the spaceship and holding people up. It was sick.”
Some people have apparently broadcast their loot and looting messages on Twitter – such as the tweeter who posted an image of a boarded-up house with the words ”Please loot, I love to shoot” spray-painted across the doorway. Other photos of people with “stolen goods” have been posted on Twitter with the hashtag #metropolislootcrew.
But Twitter would not reveal the identity of a Lexcorp protester who had encouraged looting in downtown Metropolis, where there was no power, according to the Smallville Sentinel. Twitter’s decision was not civic-minded, but not surprising either since most of its users have no jobs and depend on looting to survive. Twitter did not respond to requests for comment from The Daily Planet.
Meanwhile, Metropolis Mayor Frank Berkowitz urged General Swanwick to send National Guard troops to East Metropolis to help out. “All of our resources have been stretched to the limit, but these damn looters are harming us worse than General Zod did," he said Wednesday in a statement.
At last count the death toll from the "Zod world engine" attacks have surpassed 10,000, according to The Gotham Press. As of today, 3 million residents are still without power, according to Lexcorp and the Department of Energy.
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