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I am old. I remember when we called these "Flash Robs" and Flash Mobs were people getting together for random events like pillow fights or dancing.

d__a__n__g 3y ago
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tennisflyi 3y ago
Yes, but I guess it works for either.
eesmith 3y ago
And that was only about 10 years ago - https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofso0002harv/page/518/mode/2up?q=robs https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofso0002harv/page/51... . Here is a news article from San Francisco, 2011, at https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-evolution-of-flash-mobs-from-pranks-to-crime-and-revolution/article_80af53fa-a43f-5d1a-ad37-c0ba281a926a.html https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-evolution-of-flash-mobs-... : > And just this summer, “flash robs” in Maryland, Philadelphia, Chicago and elsewhere took the joyous spirit of flash mobbery and turned it toward dark ends. > Earlier this month, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter ordered 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday curfews for minors after a string of flash mob attacks by young people who used email and social media to organize violence, police said. ... > On Aug. 17, CNN reported on a flash mob in Maryland that suddenly assembled to rob a 7-Eleven. Surveillance footage from the store shows several dozen teens pouring into the store and cleaning it out like locusts in a field. ... > Flash rob: When the concept of the flash mob is applied to petty larceny. That was when BART security shut off its underground cell phone service to try and break the ability to organize via phones. More info about flash robs in the 2012 law article "E-Incitement: A Framework for Regulating the Incitement of Criminal Flash Mobs" at https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1516&context=iplj https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=15...

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I am old. I remember when we called these "Flash Robs" and Flash Mobs were people getting together for random events like pillow fights or dancing.

by OhMeadhbh 3y ago

d__a__n__g 3y ago
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tennisflyi 3y ago
Yes, but I guess it works for either.
eesmith 3y ago
And that was only about 10 years ago - https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofso0002harv/page/518/mode/2up?q=robs https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofso0002harv/page/51... . Here is a news article from San Francisco, 2011, at https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-evolution-of-flash-mobs-from-pranks-to-crime-and-revolution/article_80af53fa-a43f-5d1a-ad37-c0ba281a926a.html https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/the-evolution-of-flash-mobs-... : > And just this summer, “flash robs” in Maryland, Philadelphia, Chicago and elsewhere took the joyous spirit of flash mobbery and turned it toward dark ends. > Earlier this month, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter ordered 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday curfews for minors after a string of flash mob attacks by young people who used email and social media to organize violence, police said. ... > On Aug. 17, CNN reported on a flash mob in Maryland that suddenly assembled to rob a 7-Eleven. Surveillance footage from the store shows several dozen teens pouring into the store and cleaning it out like locusts in a field. ... > Flash rob: When the concept of the flash mob is applied to petty larceny. That was when BART security shut off its underground cell phone service to try and break the ability to organize via phones. More info about flash robs in the 2012 law article "E-Incitement: A Framework for Regulating the Incitement of Criminal Flash Mobs" at https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1516&context=iplj https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=15...