Vandals strike up to 17 Starbucks coffee shops

By Boston Globe Staff and Wires, 8/6/2003

California


SAN FRANCISCO -- Vandals struck up to 17 Starbucks Corp. coffee shops in San Francisco yesterday morning, spray-painting the windows and posting signs to make it appear as if the locations had gone out of business, police said. Starbucks confirmed that eight stores had been vandalized. (Reuters)