Thursday 25 March 2010

Flash Mobs Take Violent Turn in Philadelphia [NY Times]

From: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/us/25mobs.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&src=ig

“PHILADELPHIA — It started innocently enough seven years ago as an act of performance art where people linked through social-networking Web sites and text messaging suddenly gathered on the streets for impromptu pillow fights in New York, group disco routines in London, and even a huge snowball fight in Washington.

But these so-called flash mobs have taken a more aggressive and raucous turn here as hundreds of teenagers have been converging downtown for a ritual that is part bullying, part running of the bulls: sprinting down the block, the teenagers sometimes pause to brawl with one another, assault pedestrians or vandalize property.”

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