I handed out school supplies as part of a fall event we had when I worked in "the projects". We had advertised 'free school supplies': a goodie bag of notepaper, pee chees, pencils, erasers, that kind of stuff. It was supposed to be kids in the line, but we got MOBBED. The kids were OK, but the pushy parents, I wanted to whack on the head.
Mobs have the potential of being an extremely dangerous dynamic. For example...these kids were mobbing us with moving cars and floats all around, they were totally oblivious to them. Thankfully no one got killed, as happened here in the town I actually live in. A teacher got run over by a float, right in front of everybody and died.
It was the parents though...they had no control over the kids. They just let them run amok. And they'd scream at us. I'm just unaccustomed to adults screaming at me angrily...