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Break-In at Overbrook High

By  TAMARA VOSTOK

Updated 12:00 PM EDT, Tue, Jan 13, 2009

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Twelve laptops were stolen and there is clean up to be done following a break-in at Overbrook High School early Tuesday morning, according to the School District of Philadelphia.

 

Twelve laptops were stolen and there is clean up to be done following a break-in at Overbrook High School early Tuesday morning, according to the School District of Philadelphia.

The break-in occurred at around 4am.

The burglar or burglars left plenty of graffiti, broke windows, and lifted 12 laptops from the school.

Six classrooms and three administrative rooms were affected.

At the start of the school day Tuesday, students were held in the auditorium until 11am while police investigated.

School is now back to normal.

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  • Kid_at_brook Wednesday, Feb 25 at 11:24 PM FLAG COMMENT that is messed up that u feel that way amishman people like u make the world a bad place people like u make me want to cry becuse i pitty u ....ok sure some of them act crazy and bad and dont want to pay attention some times but their are kids in other races too that do the same thing, but what happened at brook was very annoying, all are work on the labtops are gone but we kept moving on with are heads held high :) p.s it wa ... MORE >
  • neothe1 Wednesday, Jan 14 at 2:32 PM FLAG COMMENT the ignorant racist comments people make are disgusting. if your living in that kind of hatred and ignorance you should just do the world a favor cretin
  • student from overbrook Wednesday, Jan 14 at 1:15 PM FLAG COMMENT that's crazy what amishman said because i go to overbrook high school...and yes we can read we are not dumb thank you very much..we may be in a bad neighborhood but that doesnt stop every student in overbrook from learning..we are all humans in that school..yeah we feel bad that our laptops were stolen from us but that dont stop us from learning we do what every other school does.. we are no different ,us students do need our ... MORE >
  • amishman Tuesday, Jan 13 at 7:15 PM FLAG COMMENT Close the schools and libraries in Black neighborhoods; "they" can't read anyway!
  • justbecause Tuesday, Jan 13 at 3:32 PM FLAG COMMENT It's a shame because the petty punk criminals probably ateended the school at one time or another, they are only robbing themselves. I feel saddened for the loss of the laptops and the benefits loss.

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