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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. What crime was committed? by QuantumG · · Score: 0, Troll

    If I wanna get together with my friends and beat the shit out of a bunch of other consenting adults why is that a police matter? If two teams were hanging out on #football, finally got sick of hearing the other team slag them and demanded a game, no-one would even blink an eyelid. Just because life and death brawling is not your thing doesn't mean others shouldn't be free to do it. If it's ok to arrest these "gangs" for fighting then please arrest every amature football player too.

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  2. Re:Should have let them kill eachother by pla · · Score: 0, Troll

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

    Why did this get modded funny?

    I tend to agree, quite seriously.

    Here we had three dozen people, all members of organizations we consider a bane on society, organizations that have, as their very essence, violence and theft.

    These three dozen people wanted to kill or seriously injure one another. Success in that endeavor would have removed them from both the streets and the gene pool.

    So why did we waste taxpayer dollars stopping this brawl before it happened?

    Optimal situation... All of one side dies, half of the other side dies, and we can throw the rest away for murder. 36 problems vanish in a half-hour "controlled burn", of sorts.

  3. Re:Should have let them kill eachother by thryllkill · · Score: 0, Troll
    "Why did this get modded funny?


    I tend to agree, quite seriously."


    Your complete and total lack of humanity disgusts me.


    Optimal situation... you are slain by a stray gang fight bullet. 1 Apathetic twit vanishes in a momentary embrace of the chaos he condones.

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