QuikTrip clerk injured as 'flash mob' destroys store (Gastonia, NC)

WCNC.com (Charlotte, NC) ^ | 3 February 2020 | WCNC Staff

[Moose4]

GASTONIA, N.C. — A QuikTrip gas station clerk was injured early Sunday morning as a 'flash mob' took over the store and caused extensive damage.

Video posted to social media, and reviewed by the Gastonia Police Department, shows numerous individuals ransacking the QuikTrip convenience store at 1843 West Franklin Blvd in Gastonia around 2:43 a.m.

Investigators have reviewed the video and are working to identify and locate possible suspects.

A store clerk in the video can be seen with a facial injury.

" A Flashmob entered the store and began to steal and throw items throughout the store," a QuikTrip spokesperson told WCNC Charlotte. "In the process an individual tossed a canned item striking our clerk, which caused medical attention."

[Moose4]

Video at link. It's about what you'd expect to see when the group is referred to as "a flashmob" and "numerous individuals."

}:-)4

[Pining_4_TX]

Teens! ... and we know that that means.

[lightman]

Teens! ... and we know that that means.

Yup.

Gotta be Amish.

[FreedomPoster]

Yeah, don’t need to look.

[Mr. N. Wolfe]

Blacks.

[dfwgator]

Blacks.

Chris Rock said it best, "There are blacks and there are n.....s, these are n.....s!"

[redshawk]

Turning their lives around. ....going to junior college in that fall. ..all that stuff. ...just good boys. ..

[Moose4]

They may not have been teens. The article said that the “flashmob” happened about 2:30 am after the local clubs let out. Maybe some of ‘em were under 21, who knows. We could go the Joe Pesci route and call them “yoots.”

I’m just trying to figure out what would possess a “flashmob” of “yoots” to trash the inside of a Quiktrip at 2:30 am. Shoplift, possibly. But just wreck the place like the video showed and then hang out in the parking lot until somebody cranks off a gun and they all run away? Yeesh.

}:-)4

[Jumper]

Could it just be a black community charity benefit event by invitation only?

[lightman]

Des always helped dems gramma carry dem groceries, y’all.

[PghBaldy]

Happy Black History Month!

[dfwgator]

Quickest way to clear them out....

[Maudeen]

Teens! ... and we know that that means.

The perpetrators will go unpunished.

[Fiji Hill]

Gotta be Amish.

When I first read the headline, I figured the perpetrators were Amish folk.

[vpintheak]

Hope this isn’t in one of these new “prosperity” zones. I don’t have high hopes for that. There’s a reason why business aren’t in those places.

[rawcatslyentist]

Lemme guess...... Aleutian Inuits again?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#16. Nope! Not Aleutian Inuits again. Alaskan Athabaskans”.

[metmom]

Yup.

If only there was midnight basketball or something.

[Trump_Triumphant]

Gentle Giants and Obama’s sons.

[OSHA]

Dem Caucus?