Sitting at Granny's listening to her scanner, I often hear about large crowds gathering all of sudden and fights breaking out. I sometimes think that these large crowds may be flashmobs. What is a flashmob? From Wikipedia:
A flash mob (or flashmob) is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse. The term flash mob is generally applied only to gatherings organized via social media or viral emails, rather than those organized by public relations firms or for a publicity stunt.
Organizing a "flash mob" basically involves e-mailing a bunch of people with instructions to show up at a certain place for a few moments, then disappear. Flashmobs are mainly used by guerrilla marketers.
If you think about it, the ability to organize flashmobs would also be effective for gang activity. Could this be what is happening in our fair City - flashmobs with "thug pants" instead of gold lame Hammer pants?
4 comments:
I don't know what they are doing but I wish it would stop. We cannot have the kind of trouble in Peoria this year that we had last year. It isn't good for anyone. Do these kids have parents????
Kind of a shame to put such a serious thought with such a funny video, huh?
That Hammer dance is funny! Could you imagine being caught up in something like that?
Many times, it is the parents.
I heard that one, too. As I was uveventfully driving by Frye & Indiana toward 'the zone', they came across and said 1600 Indiana a large group of people in the street possibly as many as 100 with some carrying guns...
Thankfully as the first cop arrived he stated ...They're dispersing now...
It could have turned into quite the powder keg.
Your Granny sounds nice. I'm afraid she's gonna have to come up with more scratch to continue the scanning hobby. The new scanners are gonna be markedly more costly when the area updates and truncates its radio system. Radio Shack clerk at mall said $300 - $500 as of last weekend.
-Scott
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