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Flash Mob Robberies Continue (in DC metro area)
NBC Washington ^ | Aug 19, 2011 | Darcy Spencer

Posted on 08/19/2011 5:56:58 AM PDT by markomalley

For the second time in a week, a flash mob robbed a convenience store in our area. Could it be a new trend in the Washington region?

In the latest incident, 10 women stormed the Shop Express convenience store along Benning Road in northeast Washington at about 3:15 a.m. Thursday.

They loaded up on food, drinks and snacks at different parts of the store.

Some of the women were carrying bags to hold some of the items. Then they all rushed out of the store at the same time without paying.

Employees said that each of the women stole about $60 worth of merchandise.

"Stealing is a very normal thing at convenience stores," one employee said. "It happens every day -- morning, evening, night. But such kind of thing I have never seen before."

Store employees said this was the third such incident at the store in the past couple of weeks, and that if the trend continues, the 24-hour store will have to close at night.

This store is not alone in its flash mob troubles. Last Saturday, a flash mob took over a 7-Eleven in Germantown.

Investigators in Montgomery County said they know who some of the suspects are, but they are hoping people will recognize the others and call police.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland
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To: Oceander

these people don’t need “social media” to form....it seems almost natural for these gangs of animals to form up because singularly, they’re cowards....


21 posted on 08/19/2011 6:13:55 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Convenience stores will shut down and Michelle Obama will complain about the inherent racism of convenience-store deserts.
22 posted on 08/19/2011 6:17:32 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Obama - the Half-Black Plague)
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To: Bon mots

That photo is the main reason I am investing in precious metals. . . . . . . LEAD


23 posted on 08/19/2011 6:18:20 AM PDT by DeaconRed (To the idiots that didn't believe us about ZERO: Hope you enjoy your less than a dollar in change.)
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To: markomalley

I wonder if Montgomery Counties “incident” (and the somewhat blase attitude of law enforcement) didn’t give a subliminal “okay” to other groups of youth?! Just thinking out loud...


24 posted on 08/19/2011 6:19:02 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: markomalley
Forget about shooting these hoodlums. The best way to stop this is to include an assortment of food laced with cyanide or some other deadly poison on the shelves -- with some kind of inconspicuous markings on them so the store owner will know not to sell them to legitimate customers.

Better yet -- turn the convenience store into a bookstore. You'd never see those @ssholes within a mile of the place.

25 posted on 08/19/2011 6:19:13 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: cherry

Indeed. However, they do frequently use various forms of instant communication - cell phones and/or social media sites - to coordinate and time their attacks and, to the extent they do, that presents a very useful opportunity to catch the whole lot rather than having to hunt them down one by one the old fashioned way.


26 posted on 08/19/2011 6:19:15 AM PDT by Oceander (The phrase "good enough for government work" is not meant as a compliment)
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To: markomalley
3:15 AM!!!

Stores should lock their doors..just admit one or two at a time...

27 posted on 08/19/2011 6:20:05 AM PDT by ken5050 (Should Christie RUN in 2012? NO! But he should WALK 3 miles every day..)
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To: Bon mots
Three guys, one gun. Bwaahaa-haaha-haaha!
28 posted on 08/19/2011 6:20:35 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Obama - the Half-Black Plague)
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To: goodwithagun

I’m relieved you caught that typo. Since you’re a schoolteacher I figured you put that in there to see if we were awake.

Over at Huffington Post the other day one of the angry libtards posted

” Thats Ignorant “

Two words, three errors.


29 posted on 08/19/2011 6:22:47 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: markomalley

This behavior is gonna’ create Slurpy deserts...


30 posted on 08/19/2011 6:24:17 AM PDT by silverleaf (The super rich do not pay taxes, they collect taxes.)
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To: Bon mots

Hey, they got the signs down-pat. L for loser.


31 posted on 08/19/2011 6:24:38 AM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ken5050

Store that are open at night are going to have to do service through a slitted door.

To only let one or a few in at a time doesn’t stop that one person from holding the door open for their 50 buddies.


32 posted on 08/19/2011 6:25:58 AM PDT by Jonty30
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To: ken5050

Store that are open at night are going to have to do service through a slotted door.

To only let one or a few in at a time doesn’t stop that one person from holding the door open for their 50 buddies.


33 posted on 08/19/2011 6:26:25 AM PDT by Jonty30
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To: ken5050

A big pump shotgun behind the counter in full display would go a long way towards stopping this crap. When the crowd enters the store, rack a shell. At that point they stop thinking like a group and start thinking about their own individual safety. I guarantee when they hear the sound of a shotgun being cycled they’d flee like rats off a sinking ship.


34 posted on 08/19/2011 6:27:47 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (The theft being perpetrated by Congress and the Fed makes Bernie Maddoff look like a pickpocket.)
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To: rhombus
"buck shot: problem solved"

Never happen. That's just an Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson press conference waiting to happen. As always, businesses will simply be forced to close their doors and move away. "Community organizers" will scream "racism!" and bemoan the flight of retail shops, jobs, and grocery stores from da' hood.
35 posted on 08/19/2011 6:27:47 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Take your excellent analysis a couple steps further:
* Businesses will leave the areas where loss rates are too high
* When most retail businesses have left, the poor won’t have anyplace to shop
* The feds will declare another “food and sundry desert”
* Feds will accuse companies of redlining and will prosecute many of them
* Execs will be jailed
* Government subsidies will flow to make sure the inhabitants have continued access to the necessary beverages and smokes


36 posted on 08/19/2011 6:28:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Pearls Before Swine

10 years ago we were in a big city in the Russian Far East

When we needed some “stuff”, our hosts were very proud to take us to a small supermarket that had well-stocked shelves- the kind of place most Russians couldn’t dream of entering

There were heavily armed guards at the door - I never forgot that

Who would have thought that we would devolve to being “them” in such a short time ... :-(


37 posted on 08/19/2011 6:28:49 AM PDT by silverleaf (The super rich do not pay taxes, they collect taxes.)
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To: markomalley

Yo bro! How’s that for “hope and change”?


38 posted on 08/19/2011 6:29:48 AM PDT by kenmcg (pROBLEM)
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To: markomalley
This falls in the nuisance category.

D.C. has seen much worse in the past and will most likely see much worse in the next couple of years. When the burning and shooting starts, we'll wish they were only stealing snacks.

39 posted on 08/19/2011 6:30:25 AM PDT by CharlyFord (t)
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To: Thermalseeker

are you kidding? A lor of these stores are staffed by immigrants or students or 2d jobbers lookingot make $8 an hour .... that’s not combat pay!

Who is willing to die to protect shelves of candy, twinkies, white bread, and slurpy machines?


40 posted on 08/19/2011 6:31:59 AM PDT by silverleaf (The super rich do not pay taxes, they collect taxes.)
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