Flash Mob Robbers Steal $3,000 from Chicago Store.

[aGameOfThrones]

People put a positive spin on the idea of mob mentality with flash mobs, happy groups that came together in a public place to surprise crowds with choreographed dance moves and songs. Then came cash mobs, when well-intentioned consumers boosted sales at a local store by buying up whatever was in stock. Now the flash mob has taken a sinister turn: A Chicago store owner says his shop is the latest to be robbed by a flash mob, when a group of young adults showed up all at once and stole more than $3,000 worth of merchandise.

ccording to the Chicago Sun Times, at around 6:40 p.m. on Saturday about 20 people entered the Mildblend Supply Co., a clothing store in a trendy part of Chicago, and started scooping up $200-a-pair jeans -- and then walked out of the store without paying for them.

"I see a group of kids. They're coming in the store in a marching way, like a team," the store's owner, Luke Cho, told the newspaper. "After the 15th or 16th teenager was inside I knew something bad was happening."

http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/flash-mob-robbers-steal-3-000-chicago-store-201300319.html

[Acala]

The flash mob theft craze will cease when it meets the store owner with a flash supressor.

[youngbuck]

group of young adults
Obvious euphemism is obvious.

[Nickels]

next we'll have trash mobs ?

[Miss Annie]

http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/flash-mob-robbers-steal-3-000-chicago-store-201300319.html

Pardon my cynicism, but they were probably paid to do it. A fear tactic to help people understand that martial law would be purely for the people's protection!

[2young2vote]

Pardon my cynicism, but they were probably paid to do it. A fear tactic to help people understand that martial law would be purely for the people's protection!

Groups have been doing this for decades. They weren't paid, they were simply being animals.

[jkr]

DO YOU WANNA BE RAPPED BY A PACK OF...group of young adults ????

HI Mel!

[youngbuck]

DO YOU WANNA BE RAPPED BY A PACK OF...group of young adults ????

HI Mel!

Hahahahaha!

[coastie]

The flash mob theft craze will cease when it meets the store owner with a flash supressor.

In Chicago, said owner would probably be imprisoned. This is what they get for choosing to live in such a cesspool of liberal social experimentation though. The owner chose to operate in a city/state where it is illegal to defend himself and/or his property, and so by default chose to sit idly by as "young adults" robbed him blind.

This is an unlikely scenario in Florida and many other states, where nearly everyone is armed, especially store owners.

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/flash-mob-robbers-steal-3-000-chicago-store-201300319.html

That really shows how racist I am, not that I ever intend to be. You see, I was expecting to see African American children of color entering into the store, but, surprisingly, that wasn't the case at all. Instead, seems a few white children got together, with these being young adults (well, they can be legally executed for shooting and killing police officers), to dupe a lot of innocent African American children of color in meeting them at the store.
From this day on, I shall never again be prejudice.
Figure this is all water under the bridge anyway. That clothing was probably only worth about thirty dollars as it was probably sewed together by a lot of exploited slave children in Bangladesh, probably speaking.
Good job, white children!

[specsaregood]

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[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

It is also possible that owner decided that killing a bunch of kids over 3k of merchandise was not worth the karma. If you are gonna have a gun you better be prepared to use it, and death is the expected result; but you already know that.

Indeed, but in shooting the few white children, one would be also shooting the many African American children of color duped into showing up at the scene of the crime.
Besides, this is just a new type of comedy for a new type of social distinction called the "leisure class," newly speaking. These people don't have to worry about endeavors like working and earning a living, as people like Bill Gates has to, as they have won control over the means of counterfiet production!
This enables them ample amounts of free time to entertain themselves with these types of social interactions. No harm was really caused here. No injustice. No right or wrong. This is nothing more than a diversity of artforms expressing themselves in an unlimited orgy of pornography.

[Acala]

It is also possible that owner decided that killing a bunch of kids over 3k of merchandise was not worth the karma. If you are gonna have a gun you better be prepared to use it, and death is the expected result; but you already know that.

The vast majority of successful uses of a firearm for self-defense and defense of property don't involve the firing of a single shot. Do you doubt that one shot fired into the ground would have cleared that store so fast all you would see is smoke?

[specsaregood]

The vast majority of successful uses of a firearm for self-defense and defense of property don't involve the firing of a single shot. Do you doubt that one shot fired into the ground would have cleared that store so fast all you would see is smoke?

I understand that but I was brought to to believe that you better not pull your gun out or aim at somebody unless you were prepared to kill them. If I was a decently insured property owner it might be easier to live with the loss of product.

[ghengis86]

I understand that but I was brought to to believe that you better not pull your gun out or aim at somebody unless you were prepared to kill them. If I was a decently insured property owner it might be easier to live with the loss of product.

What do you wanna bet that if the store owner did shoot and kill one of those young adults that he would have had a riot on his hands? Would have Jesse Jackson (Sr, since Jr is at the Mayo clinic) all over it, race-baiting, calling for more gun regs and pushing the progressive divide and conquer agenda. Can't win either way.

I will agree that taking a life in this situation is tough to justify. What about trying to hold them at gun point till police arrive? But again, you pulled it, now you're not going to use it? Hmmm...

Yes, you should be able to defend your property, but pragmatically the state doesn't accept that and would probably cage you for a long time. What to do....?

[ghengis86]

Oh, and how does the owner know at the time the value of his inventory being looted? Or if it will stop or escalate?

[Acala]

I understand that but I was brought to to believe that you better not pull your gun out or aim at somebody unless you were prepared to kill them. If I was a decently insured property owner it might be easier to live with the loss of product.

Agreed. You would not draw a gun unless you were prepared to use it with deadly effect. And if, instead of running away (as I think HIGHLY probable) one of the criminals ran AT you, you would be justified in using deadly force. At least in this state.

[specsaregood]

Agreed. You would not draw a gun unless you were prepared to use it with deadly effect. And if, instead of running away (as I think HIGHLY probable) one of the criminals ran AT you, you would be justified in using deadly force. At least in this state.

Of course if it is also a whole mob of people robbing you, there might be a decent chance some of them are armed as well, next you know bullets are flying all over the place.