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Flash Mob Gang Warfare

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bloods-and-chips dept.

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.'"

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  1. Scoop! by balthan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gotta love how slashdot stays on the forefront of up-to-the-minute journalism.

    1. Re:Scoop! by Glonoinha · · Score: 4, Funny

      About like a bunch of computer nerds to bring baseball bats to a gunfight.

      Actually none of them sound like rocket scientists - but given that it happened in Texas I am shocked, awed, and dismayed at the complete lack of firearms in this disagreement. You would think that with upwards of 40 or so hooligans ... somebody would have remembered that rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, and a few H&K MP5A3s full of 9mm Hydroshok ammo and laser designators beats a bunch of punks with baseball bats.

      Damn kids today ...

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  2. You know what they sing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way, from your first blogging breath, to your last journaled day.

  3. Should have let them kill eachother by aardwolf204 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Should have let them kill eachother, would have been Darwin at its finest

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  4. Why do I think this all started with.... by Bryan+Gividen · · Score: 5, Funny

    *gang 1 slaps around gang 2 with a bit of large trout

  5. oh great by poofyhairguy82 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    Open Source Sushi

    1. Re:oh great by DrEldarion · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, our organized crime is already outsourced to Italy...

  6. I'd love to read that transcript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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)

    1. Re:I'd love to read that transcript by severed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hell, that sounds like just about every game of WarCraft III that I have on battlenet...

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  7. Excuses, excuses. by RuneB · · Score: 5, Funny
    "For the most part, it's nothing but cursing on it. ... Some of them actually signed in with their true names, so that helped us identify people."

    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.

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  8. West Side Story by tim_mathews · · Score: 4, Funny

    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"

  9. Fights on IRC are fun to watch by British · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guy 1: I'm gonna kick your ass!
    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? ....and so on, and so on...

  10. Gang warfare, geek style by AnonymousTravis · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope I get an invite to the next one. I'm bringing my vorpal sword of slaying +3

  11. Pun by gremlins · · Score: 5, Funny

    If they used molotov cocktail's it would have been a real flame war. I know horrible pun but someone had to say it

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  12. Online gangs by Fullmetal+Edward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  13. Especially with OSX! by Ieshan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, especially if they were on IRC using OSX.

    (rimshot)

  14. Rich! by twitter · · Score: 4, Funny
    ... experts agreed. "Let's face it: Gangs already have their own alphabet, their own language, their own hand signals, so why not use the Internet?"

    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.

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    1. Re:Rich! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      uh... as a computer-stuff student at a community college (gee, I wonder what OS and software they "teach"?), I have often had to use the "CS gang sign".

      Extend left hand with a "peace sign" that falls over onto its face, as you simultaneously extend your right hand with the index finger pointing downward.

      That's right....

      Ctrl+Alt+Del, h0m33z.

  15. Re:Why this fails... by Pyrion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Instead, they're elected into Congress.

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  16. Huh? by Ensign+Regis · · Score: 5, Funny

    "a profanity-laced Internet chat room"

    There's another kind?

  17. Re:Why this fails... by ziggy_zero · · Score: 4, Funny

    You think they have high IQs?

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