Woman and Child Realize Large Group Is About to Trash Store, Immediately Cut a Line for the Exit

A woman and her child walked into a Wawa store in the Mayfair neighborhood of northeast 📍Philadelphia on Saturday night and noticed a large group of teenagers circulating inside. As their voices grew louder, the woman sensed that chaos was about to erupt and wisely led her daughter out the door.

The video below, taken from behind the counter, shows just how quickly the situation escalated. Needless to say, the store was ransacked.

KYW-TV, which reported the story, reached out to the Philadelphia Police Department for more information on this incident, but there have been no further updates.

The woman who quickly left the store was likely aware that a number of Wawa locations had been ransacked under similar circumstances earlier this month.

Just three weeks ago, also on a Saturday night, KYW reported that “dozens of young people were ransacking convenience stores and hit a number of Wawa locations.”

In a Twitter post about the string of incidents, KYW’s Joe Holden wrote, “They hit a number of Wawa locations — and police tell me most of their Center City locations have since shut down. I checked on two stores — they were closed. Police say an unknown number of juveniles were taken into custody.”