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Flash Mob Robberies
« on: June 19, 2011, 10:31:30 PM »
Kind of an ugly twist on flash mobs. This is the first I've heard of this phenomenon:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/06/18/top-five-most-brazen-flash-mob-robberies/?test=latestnews
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Re: Flash Mob Robberies
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2011, 11:13:35 PM »
I should be surprised, but I'm not.
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Re: Flash Mob Robberies
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2011, 11:34:38 PM »
would be funny for the police to set up a sting, say in a place where it would be easy to contain a large crowd.

a flash mob robbery is gonna go bad soon I'd say, some one is gonna open fire.
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Re: Flash Mob Robberies
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2011, 11:51:32 PM »
How does new technology make this easier? Wouldn't a wrist-watch do the job?
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Re: Flash Mob Robberies
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2011, 12:37:50 AM »
Quote from: The artist formerly known as fistful on June 19, 2011, 11:51:32 PM
How does new technology make this easier? Wouldn't a wrist-watch do the job?

those kids got them new fangled phones that tell time! they don't need no wrist watch.

I wonder how the flash robs are organized, I do not twitter & have not figured how to use it. I have a twitter account & occasionally get an email asking me to allow someone to follow me but I do not know how. I'm gonna have to hang out with some teens to figure all that stuff out.
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Quote from: RevDisk on April 06, 2012, 10:15:08 AM
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Re: Flash Mob Robberies
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2011, 01:23:57 AM »
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would be funny for the police to set up a sting, say in a place where it would be easy to contain a large crowd.

I can think of some seriously evil scenarios set up by non-cops.... >:D
The mild side would involve a 1 way door and a huge swarm of hornets....



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Re: Flash Mob Robberies
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2011, 01:44:53 AM »
Yeah, I remember an old John Wayne movie which involved throwing a hornets nest into a train car, I wonder if that's considered bio warfare.
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Re: Flash Mob Robberies
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2011, 02:54:03 AM »
Quote from: gunsmith on June 19, 2011, 11:34:38 PM
a flash mob robbery is gonna go bad soon I'd say, some one is gonna open fire.

Notice there's a pattern?  They all happen in places where law-abiding citizens can't carry.

When they start spilling out of those places, I want this option on my carry gun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlAsSyDAWR8
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Re: Flash Mob Robberies
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2011, 09:17:17 AM »
Quote from: gunsmith on June 19, 2011, 11:34:38 PM
. . . a flash mob robbery is gonna go bad soon I'd say, some one is gonna open fire.
Uh . . . wouldn't that be the robbery going good?

Don't some jurisdictions have laws in place that define "riot" as concerted illegal action by three or more people at the same time, which releases some constraints on both victims and police when it comes to dealing with the rioters?  ???
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Re: Flash Mob Robberies
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2011, 10:10:30 AM »
Quote from: brimic on June 20, 2011, 01:23:57 AM
I can think of some seriously evil scenarios set up by non-cops.... >:D
The mild side would involve a 1 way door and a huge swarm of hornets....

I wouldn't mourn for long if there were trampling casualties among the flash robbers.
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Re: Flash Mob Robberies
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2011, 11:25:06 AM »
Quote from: HankB on June 20, 2011, 09:17:17 AM
Uh . . . wouldn't that be the robbery going good?

Don't some jurisdictions have laws in place that define "riot" as concerted illegal action by three or more people at the same time, which releases some constraints on both victims and police when it comes to dealing with the rioters?  ???

LOL. quite right! robbery gone good. my bad.

& yup, afaik even CA law protects you if you end up shooting rioters.
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Re: Flash Mob Robberies
« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2011, 08:19:55 AM »
It seems to me that if the store owner was able to catch just one of them, the police could use their cell phone and social media contacts to roll up the rest of them pretty quickly.
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Re: Flash Mob Robberies
« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2011, 01:39:15 PM »
Heh.... Imagine a store with one entrance and an exit that's hard to get to with a psychotic lookin' fellow in the front door with a shotgun... "ON THE FLOOR!" A lot of the kids doing this crap as a thrill have no clue...
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Re: Flash Mob Robberies
« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2011, 06:10:26 PM »
Quote from: Bogie on June 22, 2011, 01:39:15 PM
Heh.... Imagine a store with one entrance and an exit that's hard to get to with a psychotic lookin' fellow in the front door with a shotgun... "ON THE FLOOR!" A lot of the kids doing this crap as a thrill have no clue...


You mean like just about every stop&rob?  And IIRC the NYC robbery squad hid out in the beer coolers but I guess they could ove to behind the counter and pop up all sudden-like.

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