WATCH: Wild scenes as Irish looters completely destroy a Lidl with giant JCB digger

It's all fun and games until a Lidl gets smashed to pieces.

Looters in Dublin have taken advantage of the chaos caused by Storm Emma and The Beast from the East to ransack a local Lidl store by using a JCB digger to smash through its ceiling.

What did Lidl ever do to them, ey? Other than offer quality European brands at low, low prices. Oh, the humanity.

You can watch the incredible footage below as the heavy machinery begins to tear the building down into the snow.

Widespread reports of law and order breaking down in the capital following #StormEmma #BeastfromtheEast pic.twitter.com/rEdfLAUa65 — Luke Martin (@LukeMartin_DL) March 2, 2018

The looters then proceeded to target the safe inside the store, even attempting to smash it open in the middle of the street as crowds gathered.

Safe from the destroyed Lidl literally being broken open in the street. This level of lawlessness is unprecedented. #StormEmma #beastfromtheast pic.twitter.com/aGZ1qjqsnp — Luke Martin (@LukeMartin_DL) March 2, 2018


Both the Irish Army and the Gardai were called in to respond to the situation, eventually securing the area surrounding the CityWest Lidl store in Tallaght.

Gardaí have arrived in numbers and seem to have secured the area where the Lidl safe was being broken open 👍 #StormEmma #beastfromtheast pic.twitter.com/bLlTGhAZwX — Luke Martin (@LukeMartin_DL) March 2, 2018

The building itself, however, appears to have been completely destroyed by the looters, as you can see below.

Remains of the Lidi that was destroyed pic.twitter.com/J64jRKe6P3 — Luke Martin (@LukeMartin_DL) March 2, 2018