Posted on 04/02/2010 6:55:05 AM PDT by Willie Green
As Jean Smith, 63, arrived at 30th Street Station on a train from Wilmington this evening, she and other commuters were warned that there was a large gathering of young people inside the station.
Some "Facebook thing," they were told.
Oh, no.
A South Street flash mob, she thought.
"I watched the faces of the people getting off the train," said Smith, of Blackwood. "They were shocked."
But what they found was not a riot, but people standing around as if time had stopped.
It was a flash mob, but of the whimsical type.
Amtrak police estimated about 500 to 600 people participated in the "Frozen 30th Street Station" flash mob, which was organized by Drexel University students.
People pretending to play musical instruments, toss a football, or read a newspaper, froze in place for three minutes starting at 6:30 p.m.
One man was on bended knee fake-proposing marriage to another man while holding out a roll of Charmin Ultrasoft.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
One of the cave parks here is planning a flash mob event. Kinda juvenile, yet cute as long as it doesn’t inconvenience others.
Mob control is a critical part of warfare and terrorism.
I wonder if these brilliant young people have considered the possibility that they are being manipulated by nefarious forces, though they think they are in control and the “cause” behind the “effect.”
One man was on bended knee fake-proposing marriage to another man while holding out a roll of Charmin Ultrasoft.”
Now THAT is what I call Art...at least I think it was Art...Art and Bill...
Man, it is illegal to pretend to play a musical instrument?
That is one tough city......
“whimsical” i.e. non-threatening i.e. “white”
Just a copy of something Improv Everywhere did a long time ago. The stunts that Improv Everwhere pulls are pretty imaginative. Once they had a bunch of people show up to Best Buy, everyone wearing blue polo shirts and khakis. They didn’t have the Best Buy logos, and denied being employees when asked, but it still got strange.
I seem to detect a distinct difference in the ethnic makeup of this “whimsical” mob in contrast with the more violent types that have been showing up in Phili.
Check and see if they’re ticklish.
I wonder if you had the fun center surgically removed from your brain....
Go have fun, tool.
Rod Serling staged stuff like this 40 years ago.
I live 20 miles from Center City. You couldn’t pay me to go there. Roving mobs of blacks along Market Street hassle you, threaten you, mug you. Cops are powerless. This is a Democrat hell-hole run by blacks since Wilson Goode firebombed the city in the 70’s. Citizen’s Bank park is also a gathering place for teenage drinking and flash mobs. Will never go to a Phillies game again.
I guess it must not have been a clean, surgical removal. Or perhaps you were just born an asshole.
Someone pulls the strings. There have been riots at some flash mobs.
It also provides a bunch of bodies to “mount a large protest” (even if the sheep don’t know it IS a protest being staged for cameras).
It also provides potential cover (or targets) for a planned terrorist strike.
But everybody ELSE is doing it so by all means, go where some anarchist somewhere says to go at “3:25pm” today...
It’s criminal conspiracy to mount a public gathering without permits or security coverage.
This reminds me of some sci-fi book master - Probably Heinlein, Asimov or Niven - The advent of being able to transfer from place to place via a “phone booth” arrangement led to “flash mobs” that would materialize nearly instantaneoulsly in response to any event that merited “rubbernecking”
Is this a joke? Do you go ask permission to have a family reunion? Do you get the police to put you in a "free speech cage" when you do? What a sheepish thing to say.
Do you call the police on moms and toddlers meeting up for play dates at the park?
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