Posted on 02/05/2013 8:06:40 AM PST by TADSLOS
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) Violent, thieving mobs have been making headlines across the country for the past few years, and now they have hit New York City.
And Maurice Dubois reported in this CBS 2 investigation, the teen mobs have left neighborhoods worried as businesses take matters into their own hands.
Judson Bennett, 78, recently ran into a violent group of teens often described with the once-benign term flash mob as he made his daily trip to buy a newspaper at his favorite news team.
Im approaching the newsstand, and then suddenly there is a tremendous force behind me, Bennett said.
Bennett ended up with a broken arm.
I was taken completely by surprise, he said.
In New York and across the country, the mobs of kids 20, 30, 40 or more appear out of nowhere and suddenly charge a newsstand or convenience store.
They ransack, steal and wreak havoc with no consideration for customers, such as Bennett, who get in their way.
They assemble, they do whatever it is that theyre going to do, and then they disassemble in a matter of minutes, said Jon Shane, assistant professor of criminal justice at John Jay College. By the time somebody recognizes what is happening or is injured, if the police are able to respond, its slow.
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guess we better knock this off before we creep out everybody on the thread. It is creepy.
Yes, I was thinking that myself as I slipped into
a Stalinist/Orwell/Darkness at Noon mode.
But it was all in good fun!
Besides, I recognize no mentors except my own damn sovereign self!
“Orwell was a prophet.”
Indeed he was.
In his own way, so was Anthony Burgess.
He wrote Clockwork Orange sometime in the late 50s,
it was filmed in the late 60s, and it has increasingly
become a way of life in our own time.
Alex and his droogies were a dystopian flash mob,brilliantly
conceived and dropped into an indeterminate future social setting:at the time Burgess was writing, it was only the rowdy “Teddy Boys” who were seen as a threat to the British social order.
Travon Martin could have been among them. If Obama had a son, HE would have been there!
And the Department of Homland Security will cure that ill, just like the SS did for Hitler. Same problem, same source, same cure.
Every fascist regime needs their useful idiots to get the ball rolling.
We sent one, and Congress is running amok in the Treasury.
The destruction of NYC must take place before America can be America. The cancerous city is a blight on America
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