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Teen flash mob strikes again -- this time at Nordstrom
KATU-TV ^ | April 13, 2012 | None

Posted on 04/14/2012 7:43:38 AM PDT by Inspectorette

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Police are investigating another flash mob theft by a group of teens, this time at Nordstrom at the Lloyd Center.

Last week, a group of 16 teens converged on a Southeast Portland convenience store and stole merchandise and then ran out. Police are still investigating the incident.

Friday's incident happened just after 8 p.m. Police interviewed employees of the store who said a group of approximately 10 African-American male teenagers were in the store and began taking items and putting them in bags before they ran out the southwest doors of the store toward Northeast 9th Avenue.

Police who checked the area recovered some of the stolen clothing, but did not find the teens, who are ages 13-19 years old and all wearing hats and hoodies with their faces covered.

Cherise Vanhooser, who works at Lloyd Center, wasn't surprised at the incident.

"Kids steal all the time at the Lloyd center," she said. "I mean, I'm constantly dealing with it at work. I know a lot of the other managers are. It's just a constant problem. You always have to have someone on the floor because you can't trust anybody."

Police said they will work with Nordstrom officials to get surveillance video to help their investigation.

Anyone with information about this theft should email information to Portland Police.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: chimpout; flashmob; flashmobs; oregon; portland; urbanculture; yutes
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This happened last night. It's gonna be a long, hot summer.
1 posted on 04/14/2012 7:43:46 AM PDT by Inspectorette
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Those darn “teens” with their hula hoops and dungarees and souped up hot rods and be-bop music.


2 posted on 04/14/2012 7:49:31 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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But, but, but, but we were told hoodies are an indication of nothing (besides not wanting to be identified whether walking through a gated community or surveillance video.)


3 posted on 04/14/2012 7:49:31 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (God is dead - William Hamilton....William Hamilton is dead - God (And he means it))
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Article didn’t say whether or not they yelled “This is for Trayvon”.


4 posted on 04/14/2012 7:50:38 AM PDT by Inspectorette
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I haven't seen the security camera footage as yet, but I'll bet they were all wearing “Hoodies.”
5 posted on 04/14/2012 7:50:47 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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I wonder if these kids were Amish?


6 posted on 04/14/2012 7:51:36 AM PDT by Fred911 (YOU GET WHAT YOU ACCEPT)
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To: Inspectorette

Hoodies don’t steal things, people steal things. ;o)


7 posted on 04/14/2012 7:52:13 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( WHO WE ELECT AS PRESIDENT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHO THEY APPOINT.)
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To: Inspectorette

“You always have to have someone on the floor because you can’t trust anybody.”

Actually, there are a lot of people you can trust. Just not “African-American male teenagers.”


8 posted on 04/14/2012 7:53:09 AM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: Inspectorette

I last shopped at Lloyd Center in the summer of 1965. At the time, it featured a store that sold “toys for men,” as the sign read. These “toys” consisted of fishing gear and guns. I’ll bet the store isn’t there today.


9 posted on 04/14/2012 7:53:20 AM PDT by Fiji Hill (Deo Vindice!)
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To: Inspectorette

BTW, if the media is concerned about actually identifying who these thugs are and terrified of ‘profiling’, why do they even identify their age demographic (teens).

Why not just call them ‘a group of humans’ or something?


10 posted on 04/14/2012 7:53:53 AM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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LOL!

If I’d pulled crap like this as a teen, I wouldn’t have the guts to go home ever again ‘cuz I know my dad would’ve been waiting for me with a switch.

When I first got my drivers license, he flat out told me that if I ever wound up in jail, not to bother calling him to bail me out.

He wasn’t kidding.

Lo and behold, I was straight as an arrow and annoyingly law abiding.

Go figger.


11 posted on 04/14/2012 7:54:02 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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I'm shocked the article actually mention the race, guess the editor was asleep at the switch.

"Police interviewed employees of the store who said a group of approximately 10 African-American male teenagers were in the store and began taking items and putting them in bags before they ran out the southwest doors of the store toward Northeast 9th Avenue."

12 posted on 04/14/2012 7:54:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: Inspectorette

The “hoodies” are taking liberalism out back and shooting it dead. While our gated community secure building elitist liberals continue on with the war on white people and the Lowry’s of the world prostrate themselves in agreement of the evils of white’s “racism” the campaign to turn the rest of America into a three thousand mile wide Detroit continues at breakneck speed.


13 posted on 04/14/2012 7:54:06 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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Those darn “teens” with their hula hoops and dungarees and souped up hot rods and be-bop music............................ Yup, it all gets down to Elvis and Rock and Roll. We were warned. :)


14 posted on 04/14/2012 7:54:15 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( WHO WE ELECT AS PRESIDENT IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS WHO THEY APPOINT.)
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Hoodies don’t steal things, people steal things

So true. After all, the unabomber wore a hoodie, and as far as we know, he didn't boost skittles and tea from the local 7-11.

15 posted on 04/14/2012 7:55:04 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Inspectorette

Soon they’ll start ringing doorbells, yelling “Trayvon calling!” and then run.


16 posted on 04/14/2012 7:56:01 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- . . . a group of teens . . . all wearing hats and hoodies. . . .

They must have come in from Mt. Hoodie.

17 posted on 04/14/2012 7:56:09 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Boyz in the Hoodie.)
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To: Inspectorette

It’s happening in cities across the country.


18 posted on 04/14/2012 7:58:20 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Carl LaFong

Too specific.

Homo sapiens is less accusatory.


19 posted on 04/14/2012 7:58:34 AM PDT by Salamander (Hey blood brother, you're one of our own. You're as sharp as a razor and as hard as a stone.)
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Why not just call them ‘a group of humans’ or something?

Maybe because they're not "human".

20 posted on 04/14/2012 7:59:01 AM PDT by Inspectorette
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