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This is the shocking moment a mob of 40 people looted a FedEx truck while it was stopped at a red light in Memphis, Tennessee.

Around 8:30pm Saturday, a 53-foot trailer was ransacked while it sat in traffic at the intersection of Riverport Road and West Mallory Avenue.

After the driver reported the theft, the Memphis police arrived and saw vehicles speeding away recklessly along with a number of boxes thrown across the road.

The truck driver told the police that cars blocked the intersection just before a group of men broke open the sealed back door and looted the trailer.

Three men have since been detained after the raging group caused nearly $10,000 in damages - and stole numerous items such as Kicker Speakers, a box of air liners and three DirectTV cable boxes.

A video of the theft starts with the large group grabbing random packages from the partially open back door of the truck.

A mountain of brown boxes stacked on top of each other are quickly stolen by the thieves, some taking more than one at a time. As the thieves run away with the merchandise, some of it falls to the ground in front of cars stuck in the traffic jam created by the scene.

Nearly every looter has a hood or face covering on as drivers nearby watch in amazement and some even laugh at the incident.

The savage group soon gets the entire back door open as boxes spill out of the tractor-trailer and contents are revealed.

The video then cuts to one of the robbers walking toward cars with a package in each hand as the person behind the camera laughs.

'Man, now he trying to move,' the man behind the camera says as the truck driver tries to escape the mayhem.

As the video ends, the driver manages to move forward but looters keep on taking from the truck.