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Pro-Life "Flash Mob" Upstages Pro-Abortion Rally in Chicago --again! See story and watch video here CHICAGO - Saturday, April 2, was an evening to honor Pro-life Action League founder and president, Joseph Scheidler, as pro-lifers from all over the US gathered for a special "Evening of Tribute". On this occasion, abortion advocates organized a protest against Scheidler, who they claim, “works actively to eliminate access to reproductive healthcare and promotes the harassment of patients who enter family planning clinics for a variety of services.” After hearing about the plan to protest Mr. Scheidler's tribute, the young organizers of the famed...

Center City Store Brawl Caught On Tape March 24, 2011 9:00 AM PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A brawl involving a number of young people, mostly girls, resulted in several arrests and charges being filed in Center City and the entire incident was caught on tape. Police took a number of unruly teens into custody around 7 p.m. Thursday, March 17, when group of teenage girls started to fight inside the H&M clothing store at 16th and Chestnut Streets. Police and store security were nearby and quickly broke up the feuding teens while onlookers grabbed their cell phones and started recording. A...

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Excerpts American patriots, from Tea Parties to social democrats are being urged to show up as a ‘flash mob’– preferably with a red gag or bandanna over their mutually non-violent mouths — or at least to noise it up, in media and to media.Caracas Venezuela, 9:30am+ Eastern Time, 1/23 Caracas is the touch-point – ground zero beginning 9:30am ET and it could be, literally ballistic. As China transported military thugs from Mongolian provinces, to dispatch the Tienanmen protesters, word on the ground is Cuban military and FARC drug thugs may apply themselves to Sunday’s peaceful protesters, whether wearing olive green,...

Christmas Food Court Flash Mob, Hallelujah Chorus - Must See! VIDEO CLICK It's nice to see over 100 people expressing their love for the Savior through song in this unorthodox way. Look for the people who were touched by the performance, like the woman who wipes tears from her eyes, or the mother who reaches for her sons hand.

On Nov.13 2010 unsuspecting shoppers got a big surprise while enjoying their lunch. Over 100 participants in this awesome Christmas Flash Mob. This is a must see! This flash mob was organized by http://www.AlphabetPhotography.com to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas! Special thanks to Robert Cooper and Chorus Niagara, The Welland Seaway Mall, and Fagan Media Group.

Pretty outrageous: a skater flash mob. Probably 200 skate boarders zipped past Macy's 5th Ave stopping traffic. Sort of a skate board parade or something. Horns were blasting. Drivers upset. Others taking photos and laughing. The context: People contained in cubicles within office cubes stacked 100 stories high, in cars jammed in a frozen river of traffic. The Protagonist: a mob of skaters slicing freely thru the stagnant ice, screaming gleefully, some with bare chests. The Antagonists: Jammed up drivers yelling and honking. The Chorus: Onlookers infected by the liberated joy, cheering them on, and capturing the moment on electronic...

PHILADELPHIA - July 5, 2010 (WPVI) -- Independence Day celebrations got out of hand late last night when an unruly crowd converged on Center City.

Our sources inside the Tea Party Movement tell us that the Tea Parties are planning on using a social media tactic using twitter, facebook and email to create a 'Flash Mob' at the state capitol in the next few days. The point they say is to gather a group of people (members and interested friends) in the Capitol rotunda to show legislators that the citizens are paying attention. They say that legislators are well known for slipping through controversial matters in the final days of the session. The Tea Parties are particularly interested in the potential raid of the state...

This video captured the 4 minute event that broke out inside the new Student Union located on the campus of Ohio State University (May 3, 2010). The incident was eventually broken up once university president Dr. Gordon Gee arrived on scene. 4 minute clip here..

A victim of Philadelphia's March 20 flash mob, Anna Taylor was referred to in media reports only as the 27-year-old woman injured on South Street. Little was known or said about her. That will change Wednesday night, as people gather in a Frenchtown, N.J., restaurant for a benefit for Taylor, an uninsured waitress who faces $7,000 in medical and dental bills after being punched in the face by a youth still being sought by Philadelphia police. Taylor, who is separated and lives in Chalfont with a son, 9, and a daughter, 3, said she has thought a great deal about...

EDGEWATER, N.J. — Police in northern New Jersey say a 14-year-old girl grabbed a supermarket microphone and announced, “All blacks leave the store.”

SEATTLE, - Organizers of a Seattle flash mob event inspired by TV series "Glee" said more than 1,000 people are expected to dance in the streets in three secret locations. Bobby Bonsey and Egan Orion, the head of Seattle Pride Fest, said more than 1,700 people have confirmed attendance for Saturday's "Glee" flash mob, which will feature groups of people dancing in the streets to music from the hit musical TV series, on Facebook and many have been preparing with dance rehearsals and instructional videos made by the duo, Seattlepi.com reported Thursday. The organizers said participants will be informed of...

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...

... [S]o-called flash mobs have taken a more aggressive and raucous turn here as hundreds of teenagers have been converging downtown for a ritual that is part bullying, part running of the bulls: sprinting down the block, the teenagers sometimes pause to brawl with one another, assault pedestrians or vandalize property. On Wednesday, the police here said that they had had enough. They announced plans to step up enforcement of a curfew already on the books, and to tighten it if there is another incident. They added that they planned to hold parents legally responsible for their children’s actions. They...

Passengers remove trousers for No Pants Subway Ride Despite a cold snap across much of the northern world, users of public transit systems in a number of cities took off their trousers for No Pants Day. The event, which began in New York City in 2002, sees participants with bare legs mingling with other passengers. Organisers Improv Everywhere say 3,000 people took part in New York with more in 43 other cities in 16 countries. The group says its mission is to cause "scenes of chaos and joy in public places". Participants were told to meet at a designated train...

Police are monitoring large groups of roving teenagers in Center City. Police said they had been alerted that youths planned to gather in the area in response to a dust up earlier in the week at the food court at the Gallery. The message for the gathering apprently had been spread via the Internet, police said. Security guards were posted at every entrance to the Gallery Mall on Market Street and reportedly were not letting anyone under the age of 18 in. Police reported groups of 100 to 200 teens in the areas of Market Street, Sansom Street, Chestnut Street...

Police arrested Stephen Lyde, 21, today and charged him with aggravated assault in what Capt. Laurence D. Nodiff, commander of South Detective Division, called the "vicious" and "brutal" beating of a 52-year-old maintenance mechanic who was bicycling home from work during the May 30 near-riots on South Street. Nodiff said that Lyde was one of eight males who knocked the victim off his bike and "brutally beat him to unconsciousness," leaving him with skull, rib and facial fractures, and internal injuries. The victim was on life support at Hahnemann University Hospital for days, Nodiff said, and remains hospitalized in stable...

Authorities are searching for a tech-savvy mob of teens who used online social networking sites to terrorize a South Philadelphia neighborhood Saturday night, police said. More than 100 youths arranged via unspecified Internet-based means to meet on South Street near Broad about midnight, swarming the area and leading to a melee that ended only after the mob had hijacked a taxi, pulled a woman from her car and assaulted her, and ransacked a convenience store, police said

UPDATED - ALERT - Frightening Text Messages Being Forwarded Around NY Jews January 2, 2009 3:00PM EST: [UPDATE BELOW] With the situation in Gaza deteriorating by the day, and anti-semitism rampant around the world, thousands of NY Jews were frightened upon receiving the following text message which has been going around on Friday afternoon: “A Jewish woman gave a tip to a Muslim taxi driver and out of appreciation he warned her not to go to Manhattan next week Wednesday.” YWN has reached out to high-ranking members of the NYPD, and have stated that although they received the same text...