Flash Mobs

I can understand how a "flash mob" is disrupting to everyone. The police, the motorists, the business owners. What I don't understand is why it is "scary" and why they locked patrons in the store to "protect them".

This is a bunch of young adults and teens getting together in one location, not a roving band of armed and deadly killers. :confused3

:rolleyes1 You obviously have never been to Philly.
 
:rolleyes1 You obviously have never been to Philly.

well perhaps you are just mistaking teens looking for trouble as flash mobs because there are a lot of them :confused3 Flash mobs are not meant to cause trouble/harm/scare. If that is what is happening with these teenagers, then it is probably something else.
 
well perhaps you are just mistaking teens looking for trouble as flash mobs because there are a lot of them :confused3 Flash mobs are not meant to cause trouble/harm/scare. If that is what is happening with these teenagers, then it is probably something else.

Au contraire. they are dangerous. In philly they have been roaming the streets destroying property, over turning cars, over turning trash cans. Now how far of a leap do you think it's going to be before they start beating up people on the street?
A flash mob of 150 teens slammed into Center City yesterday afternoon like a tidal wave of stupidity, flooding the streets with chaos and fear.

This incident happen a few weeks ago in Center City. It's from Philly.com

The mob of mindless miscreants gathered at the Gallery mall about 4:45 p.m. for a fight that police suspect may have been arranged earlier in the day on the Internet, police said.

Mall security guards chased the marauders, only to watch them stampede through the nearby Macy's, causing $700 worth of damage, said Lt. George Ondrejka of Central Detectives.

The teens, including numerous students from Simon Gratz and Benjamin Franklin High Schools, then wreaked havoc as they moved en masse across Market Street toward City Hall, Ondrejka said.

Traffic came to a halt as the youngsters began pelting cars, pedestrians and one another with snowballs, Ondrejka said. They knocked down numerous bystanders and some members of the mob even turned on each other. Philadelphia police and several SEPTA cops swarmed the scene and collared 15 participants - 14 boys and one girl - near City Hall, Ondrejka noted.

The boys, ages 14 to 17, were charged with disorderly conduct and rioting. Ondrejka said the girl, 15, was charged with assault for kicking a teen boy in the face.


Now you tell me, how safe do you feel if your in your car on Broad street and now you've got 150 teens throwing snowballs and debris at it?


:confused3
 

Flash mobs happen all over the world. It's just that Philly has the reputation. Were there riots in Philly after the World Series? Hardly. There were some incidents; but that is going to happen ANYWHERE there is a gathering of thousands of people.
 
Au contraire. they are dangerous. In philly they have been roaming the streets destroying property, over turning cars, over turning trash cans. Now how far of a leap do you think it's going to be before they start beating up people on the street?
A flash mob of 150 teens slammed into Center City yesterday afternoon like a tidal wave of stupidity, flooding the streets with chaos and fear.

This incident happen a few weeks ago in Center City. It's from Philly.com

The mob of mindless miscreants gathered at the Gallery mall about 4:45 p.m. for a fight that police suspect may have been arranged earlier in the day on the Internet, police said.

Mall security guards chased the marauders, only to watch them stampede through the nearby Macy's, causing $700 worth of damage, said Lt. George Ondrejka of Central Detectives.

The teens, including numerous students from Simon Gratz and Benjamin Franklin High Schools, then wreaked havoc as they moved en masse across Market Street toward City Hall, Ondrejka said.

Traffic came to a halt as the youngsters began pelting cars, pedestrians and one another with snowballs, Ondrejka said. They knocked down numerous bystanders and some members of the mob even turned on each other. Philadelphia police and several SEPTA cops swarmed the scene and collared 15 participants - 14 boys and one girl - near City Hall, Ondrejka noted.

The boys, ages 14 to 17, were charged with disorderly conduct and rioting. Ondrejka said the girl, 15, was charged with assault for kicking a teen boy in the face.


Now you tell me, how safe do you feel if your in your car on Broad street and now you've got 150 teens throwing snowballs and debris at it?
That is not a flash mob. Flash mobs are not about destruction of property, or hurting people or destroying property.

I think that some people are taking the original flash mob concept and trashing it. They are giving it a bad name by doing these things.
:rolleyes1 You obviously have never been to Philly.
No, but it's reputation precedes it. :rotfl:

This is a flash mob:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k

Whatever is going on in Philly needs a different name. ;)

:thumbsup2
 
Bad teens are always giving teen activities a bad name.

This is a shame and scary. I wouldn't have wanted any part of this even back when I was a teen.
 
This is a flash mob:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k

Whatever is going on in Philly needs a different name. ;)

This is a rehearsed, recorded, planned event. If this is what a "flash mob" is, then yes, we do need another name for what's been happening in Philly. I doubt that the people in the planned ones bring guns (one was confiscated Sat night) or engage in fights, which also happened Sat night.

It's possible that someday a bystander may feel threatened by the amount of people and pull a gun out. That's already happened with just a few people, usually late at night around the club areas and ended in shootings, some die, some are lucky enough not too.
 







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