[joeysteele]

The UK is a materialistic society in the main now,it was a main part of this from these rioters/criminals/looters whatever you want to call them, as I said in my post above they also saw an opportunity to grab those things out of mainly greed.

They could have just smashed windows and wrecked buildings without looting, they wanted the 'materialistic' goods that they could get too though.

Even if they didn't need or want the things themselves they could have satisfied their greed further by selling some of these things they stole on to people who also wanted cheap materialistic goods.

Three elements.materialistic gain and greed and opportunity.