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Flash Mob Gang Warfare
TexasDex writes "You've all heard of flash mobs and Flash Mob Computing. Now here's a new twist on the flash mob phenomenon: Almost 3 dozen people were arrested for a March 3 street fight. 'What makes this case unusual is how the clash was arranged: via a profanity-laced Internet chat room.' Apparently two Dallas gangs, after trading insults in a chat room, traded their keyboards for fists and baseball bats and arranged a time to meet and duke it out in real life. The gang members were later identified and arrested with the aid of a digital video tape of the brawl. According to one officer, 'Some of them actually signed in with their true names, so that helped us identify people.'"
Gotta love how slashdot stays on the forefront of up-to-the-minute journalism.
irc gangs... haha.. how geeky is that?
I would have used the keyboard instead of a baseball bat. Would have been sooo much cooler with keys flying everywhere with every strike.
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Should have let them kill eachother, would have been Darwin at its finest
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
*gang 1 slaps around gang 2 with a bit of large trout
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of great... now our gangs are on the internet. I wonder how much longer till our crime is outsourced to india like our jobs are.
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Nigga4Life82: fuk you mama ;-)
...)
FreshJackMan: u smoke dicks
FreshJackMan: an you mama a ho
Nigga4Life82: fuck yo mama ho
DJMonkeyAss: sup bitches
FreshJackMan: niga4life needs
DJMonkeyAss: indahouse
FreshJackMan: a cap in his ass
Tawneesha79: sup dopeman
FreshJackMan: GLOCK GLOCK LoL
Nigga4Life82: gona buts a cap in jack ass
Nigga4Life82: punk ass bitch anyway
(... six hours later
Nigga4Life82: make you move motherfuker
FreshJackMan: kick yo bitch ass bitch
FreshJackMan: fuck your mama bitch ass ho
(... two hours later... the fight begins)
I wonder how many of them will claim that it wasn't really them becasue of a worm or virus or someone else using their password.
dtach - A tiny program that emulates the detach feat
West Side Story meets IRC? You are now chatting in #gangfights, the topic is "Jets vs Sharks set to a wonderful musical score by Leonard Bernstein"
Quick, everyone! Let's have a Slashdot-effect mob street fight!
./ Horde. J00 g01n' D0wn!!"
Rusty from Kuro5hin says this - "Hey Taco, j00 sux0r! CowboyNeal is a loser AOLer! Slashcode is worse than VB code! Hemos is a homo! If j00 l05ers think otherwise, show up at the corner of 2nd and Main at 3pm with 'yo posse, and we'll settle this with a fight between us K5-krew and the
I'm putting money on the K5er's. Slashdotters aren't exactly tough.
They should have told the police they were just practicing for a performance of West Side Story and then started singing Tonight
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
Guy 1: I'm gonna kick your ass! ....and so on, and so on...
Guy 2: Bring it on!
Guy 1: Fine! Where do you wanna meet?
Guy 2: I'll go to your place just to kick..your..ass. Where do you live?
Guy 1: 1328 Farnsworth street in Edina
Guy 2: Oh I'm so there. Wait, I'm in Rosevile
Guy 1: Okay, you can take I-494 westbound, then take hwy 100 northbound.
Guy 2: Can't do that, 494 near me is closed and there's no detour
Guy 1: Okay, how about County road B?
I hope I get an invite to the next one. I'm bringing my vorpal sword of slaying +3
If they used molotov cocktail's it would have been a real flame war. I know horrible pun but someone had to say it
just because your a schizophrenic doesn't mean people arn't really out to get you
Haven't they heard of Quake? what kinda (in)sane person even leaves the house to have a fight these days, we've got good enough connections to act like real men and hit each other with crowbars without having to move at all.
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Yeah, especially if they were on IRC using OSX.
(rimshot)
Bodily harm is a tort anywhere. The idea of "consent" is not recognized.
If it's ok to arrest these "gangs" for fighting then please arrest every amature football player too.
Do you mean "armature" football or "amateur" football?
I'm waiting for the gang hand sign RFC.
Parents, not police, must take ultimate responsibility, said Lewis, a former police officer in Modesto, Calif. "I'm just wondering why the parents aren't monitoring what's going on back and forth on the Internet," he said.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch house:
A Roadside Oiler, filled with pride, watches his son typing away. "My son is a fucking genouis with that thing. He's always working at it. Trojans, DDoS, I got no idea what it is so it must be good."
Sonny gets out of his chair, picks up a baseball bat and heads for the door.
Oiler: Where you going, son?
Sonny: Uhhh, there's a game on tonight. I won't be late.
Oiler thinks: Night time baseball? Eh, OK, a little exercise will do him some good. I wish he'd get some sunshine.
And so it happens.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
The thing I can't work out why the stupid kids were charged! They all wanted to be there. There were no innocent injured bystanders.
If these kids are flat-out dumb enough to want to fight each other for no apparent reason, then I say let them do it.
The world is over-populated enough as it is and a bit of chlorine in the gene pool wouldn't go astray.
Instead, they're elected into Congress.
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell.
"a profanity-laced Internet chat room"
There's another kind?
You think they have high IQs?
I belong to the ______ generation.
2 nite, 2 nite,
I'll flame ur ass 2 nite.
For us, the n00bz will drop where they are.
2 day
I'll never take a shower,
The FPS go slowly,
And still the sky is light...
Oh Doom, grow bright,
Chat turns 2 day into a fight!
- a.c.
Ah....Darwin works in mysterious ways sometimes....or perhaps some not so mysterious ways as found in this case.
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The proper procedure for settling online pissing contests and insult-slinging events of this nature is to play eachother in an agreed-upon First-Person Shooter.
Come on, don't these gangs know good internet ettiquette?
I bet the reason was a discussion about ...
Vi vs Emacs
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It follows that such males cannot therefore contribute easily to the human reproductive cycle and therefore the continuation of the species - so I say let them get on with it, it's just natural selection in action.
Just give the last man standing a mop and a trashcan and let him clear up all the bits afterwards...
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If only they'd have had mod points. Negative mod points are far worse than baseball bats to a true geek.
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There can be only one!
Vercotti: Doug. (takes a drink) Well, I was terrified of him. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I've seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug.
Interviewer: What did he do?
Vercotti: He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
take a nice headshot with a 30-06 hunting rifle and a good scope.
"everybody" does not talk tough on the internet, just the weenies
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