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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.

  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. 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)

  6. 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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  7. 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

  8. Why this fails... by AvantLegion · · Score: 5, Insightful
    The high IQ criminals are not caught, not identified as criminals, and are not counted in the IQ scores for criminals.

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

      Instead, they're elected into Congress.

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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. Huh? by Ensign+Regis · · Score: 5, Funny

    "a profanity-laced Internet chat room"

    There's another kind?

  12. 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.

  13. Parental control? by troon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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