It seemed every neighborhood had a barricade of some kind at it's entrance with people armed with whatever they could find (sticks, knives, shotguns) guarding it. They weren't messing around either, you either had a good excuse for being there or else. It didn't take long to find out what was going on.
The earthquake happened Saturday morning, by Sunday morning the looting had started in earnest. I suppose it started with people justifying their actions by getting stuff needed for babies, basic food, etc. But it quickly degraded into a frenzy of looting. Mobs of people entered any store they could find and carried off everything, food, clothes, TV's, appliances, even sofas. After not too long they started destroying what they couldn't carry and finally a few burned what they couldn't destroy. After the stores they turned to houses. Hence the barricades. It wasn't Chile's proudest moment.
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