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Philly Answers Youth Flash Mobs With Curfew Enforcement

Posted by timothy on from the at-last-a-flash-mob-with-a-mob-mentality dept.

Not that it's the first city to enforce a youth curfew, and not that kids on a crime-spree is the only variety of moral panic offered as a rationale, but Philadelphia is cracking down through increased enforcement of a youth curfew law after children and teenagers attacked two people in the Center City district — attacks which, according to police, were coordinated via text messaging.

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  1. Flash Mobs Are Nerd News Now???? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And in this case, it wasn't really a flash mob at all, it was just a gang of hoodlums.

    This story doesn't seem relevant to this site at all to me.