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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.
(This is why cops can catch them).
When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way, from your first blogging breath, to your last journaled day.
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
Say it ain't so!!!
This is not newsworthy. People traded insults and got into a fight. So it happened over the internet - so what?
Communications can be good or bad. The internet isn't going to prevent some punk from talking shit about some other punk.
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.
Open Source Sushi
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"
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
..."Any fool can use a computer. Many do."
Ted Nelson
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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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Exactly, and how does this have ANYTHING to do with flash mobs? They were already established groups (gangs). The same thing could have happened because of a shouting match in the streets, a conference call, or any other form of group communication. Just because the cause of the fight happened to be on the internet doesn't make it special.
Yeah, especially if they were on IRC using OSX.
(rimshot)
This was NOT a flash mob. Why on Earth would you call it that? It was a pre-arranged fight, as almost all gang fights are.
A bunch of kids argued in a chat room and then they fought.
This story is among the worst I've ever seen here.
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.
"a profanity-laced Internet chat room"
There's another kind?
For goodness sake, these are kids aged 14-21. The policeman asked why the parents weren't keeping an eye on their internet usage: but what about keeping an eye on why your 14-year-old kid is going out at night with a baseball bat?!
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