Their tactics ranged from noisemaking at night to withholding heat and hot water, extortion, arson, flooding, smashing holes in walls and floors, moving drug addicts and prostitutes into vacant apartments, even ransacking, burglary and assault.
That's nice, but more legacy-conscious ancestors would have instead survived the Johnstown flood, smashed a Champagne bottle at the opening of the Eiffel Tower or refereed the legendary 75-round bare-knuckle fight between John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain, all of which took place that same year.
It was the summer of 2013, and the television lit up with horrific scenes beneath the headline "Alberta Floods". Waves smashed down and destroyed people's homes and belongings as families watched helplessly.
But a huge sea surge and 20-foot waves caused coastal flooding, and smashed parts of Havana's sea wall.
The looters turned their attention next on a Future Shop store a few blocks away, smashing windows and flooding up the stairs to the second-floor store, only to turn around quickly.
What kind of universe is this?" Moscowitz and Silverman, their ire reaching cosmic dimensions, rocked the tank to and fro until it toppled off its table, smashing its glass walls and flooding the hexagonal-tile floor.
Last year a landslide joined the water hurling down from the hills, sending boulders pouring through the village, smashing the tourist information centre and flooding properties.
[August 17]... hundreds of paid agitators flooded the streets of Tehran, looting, burning, and smashing the symbols of government.
A bridge that was replaced after being destroyed by Tropical Storm Agatha has again been smashed by floods, cutting the main route to the south-west of the country.
the door came in, smashing into the opposite wall and we were inundated with around 250 tons of water, flooding our whole operation to a depth of around 2 feet.
