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Flash Mob Gang Warfare
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CowboyNeal
on Thu May 13, 2004 11:24 PM
from the bloods-and-chips dept.
from the bloods-and-chips dept.
TexasDex writes "You've all heard of flash mobs and Flash Mob Computing. Now here's a new twist on the flash mob phenomenon: Almost 3 dozen people were arrested for a March 3 street fight. 'What makes this case unusual is how the clash was arranged: via a profanity-laced Internet chat room.' Apparently two Dallas gangs, after trading insults in a chat room, traded their keyboards for fists and baseball bats and arranged a time to meet and duke it out in real life. The gang members were later identified and arrested with the aid of a digital video tape of the brawl. According to one officer, 'Some of them actually signed in with their true names, so that helped us identify people.'"
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Scoop! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Scoop! (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Saturday October 01 2005, @10:40AM)
Actually none of them sound like rocket scientists - but given that it happened in Texas I am shocked, awed, and dismayed at the complete lack of firearms in this disagreement. You would think that with upwards of 40 or so hooligans
Damn kids today
With or without computers.... (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://205.205.253.95/Crackster | Last Journal: Wednesday September 22 2004, @09:57PM)
(This is why cops can catch them).
Why this fails... (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Sunday January 11 2004, @03:55AM)
Re:Why this fails... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://pyrion.livejournal.com/)
Re:Why this fails... (Score:5, Funny)
yeah (Score:3, Funny)
You know what they sing (Score:5, Funny)
Should have let them kill eachother (Score:5, Funny)
Especially with OSX! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://pigeon.psy.tufts.edu/ | Last Journal: Wednesday April 14 2004, @11:57AM)
(rimshot)
n3wzF1a5h (Score:4, Funny)
n3wz @ 11!!!
Re:Chat logs anyone? (Score:4, Funny)
Why do I think this all started with.... (Score:5, Funny)
Communications medium was used for communicating? (Score:5, Insightful)
This is not newsworthy. People traded insults and got into a fight. So it happened over the internet - so what?
Communications can be good or bad. The internet isn't going to prevent some punk from talking shit about some other punk.
Re:Communications medium was used for communicatin (Score:5, Insightful)
oh great (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday March 02 2004, @07:07PM)
Re:oh great (Score:5, Funny)
I'd love to read that transcript (Score:5, Funny)
FreshJackMan: u smoke dicks
FreshJackMan: an you mama a ho
Nigga4Life82: fuck yo mama ho
DJMonkeyAss: sup bitches
FreshJackMan: niga4life needs
DJMonkeyAss: indahouse
FreshJackMan: a cap in his ass
Tawneesha79: sup dopeman
FreshJackMan: GLOCK GLOCK LoL
Nigga4Life82: gona buts a cap in jack ass
Nigga4Life82: punk ass bitch anyway
(... six hours later
Nigga4Life82: make you move motherfuker
FreshJackMan: kick yo bitch ass bitch
FreshJackMan: fuck your mama bitch ass ho
(... two hours later... the fight begins)
Re:I'd love to read that transcript (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.haxxxor.com/)
Excuses, excuses. (Score:5, Funny)
I wonder how many of them will claim that it wasn't really them becasue of a worm or virus or someone else using their password.
West Side Story (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot effect street fight!!! (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Monday March 31 2003, @01:23AM)
Rusty from Kuro5hin says this - "Hey Taco, j00 sux0r! CowboyNeal is a loser AOLer! Slashcode is worse than VB code! Hemos is a homo! If j00 l05ers think otherwise, show up at the corner of 2nd and Main at 3pm with 'yo posse, and we'll settle this with a fight between us K5-krew and the
I'm putting money on the K5er's. Slashdotters aren't exactly tough.
Were they called the Sharks and the Jets? (Score:3, Funny)
Fights on IRC are fun to watch (Score:5, Funny)
(http://infaux.net/ | Last Journal: Thursday September 01 2005, @02:08PM)
Guy 2: Bring it on!
Guy 1: Fine! Where do you wanna meet?
Guy 2: I'll go to your place just to kick..your..ass. Where do you live?
Guy 1: 1328 Farnsworth street in Edina
Guy 2: Oh I'm so there. Wait, I'm in Rosevile
Guy 1: Okay, you can take I-494 westbound, then take hwy 100 northbound.
Guy 2: Can't do that, 494 near me is closed and there's no detour
Guy 1: Okay, how about County road B?
Gang warfare, geek style (Score:5, Funny)
Pun (Score:5, Funny)
As the man said... (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.gis.net/~cht)
Ted Nelson
Online gangs (Score:5, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday June 03 2004, @11:21AM)
Re:Online gangs (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Saturday October 01 2005, @10:40AM)
See, that's how real nerds 'throw down', cept I have hence moved on to UT2004. And don't think I won't use that Redeemer, cause I will - and that's when things get real ugly.
WRONG (Score:4, Insightful)
A bunch of kids argued in a chat room and then they fought.
This story is among the worst I've ever seen here.
Rich! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://lists.clickers.org/linuxsig/index.html | Last Journal: Monday November 26, @06:24PM)
I'm waiting for the gang hand sign RFC.
Parents, not police, must take ultimate responsibility, said Lewis, a former police officer in Modesto, Calif. "I'm just wondering why the parents aren't monitoring what's going on back and forth on the Internet," he said.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch house:
A Roadside Oiler, filled with pride, watches his son typing away. "My son is a fucking genouis with that thing. He's always working at it. Trojans, DDoS, I got no idea what it is so it must be good."
Sonny gets out of his chair, picks up a baseball bat and heads for the door.
Oiler: Where you going, son?
Sonny: Uhhh, there's a game on tonight. I won't be late.
Oiler thinks: Night time baseball? Eh, OK, a little exercise will do him some good. I wish he'd get some sunshine.
And so it happens.
Re:Rich! (Score:5, Funny)
Extend left hand with a "peace sign" that falls over onto its face, as you simultaneously extend your right hand with the index finger pointing downward.
That's right....
Ctrl+Alt+Del, h0m33z.
Already done, way bigger (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.in-nomine.org/)
This time it was a major battle between Ajax and Feyenoord (football clubs from Amsterdam and Rotterdam respectively) supporters, to quote:
"In March 1997 an Ajax fan died after an organised fight between hundreds of Feyenoord and Ajax hooligans in a meadow near Beverwijk."
This lead to the death of one Ajax supporter Cario Picornie.
They organised this fight using cellulars.
Why charge them? (Score:3, Funny)
If these kids are flat-out dumb enough to want to fight each other for no apparent reason, then I say let them do it.
The world is over-populated enough as it is and a bit of chlorine in the gene pool wouldn't go astray.
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
There's another kind?
Back when my anon FTP was running and free (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://www.icarusindie.com/)
So I changed it to a low bit quality version of "You Are My Sunshine."
It didn't take long for them to lose the hot link to my site. And I didn't have to say anything to them.
I can't help but think this mob problem could have been avoided if someone had just injected the forum with some happy fun kids' songs. Too much anger and stupidity, not enough funny.
Ben
Darwin (Score:4, Funny)
(http://haltingpoint.blogspot.com/)
Ah....Darwin works in mysterious ways sometimes....or perhaps some not so mysterious ways as found in this case.
Parental control? (Score:5, Insightful)
For goodness sake, these are kids aged 14-21. The policeman asked why the parents weren't keeping an eye on their internet usage: but what about keeping an eye on why your 14-year-old kid is going out at night with a baseball bat?!
Natural Selection In Action. (Score:3, Funny)
It follows that such males cannot therefore contribute easily to the human reproductive cycle and therefore the continuation of the species - so I say let them get on with it, it's just natural selection in action.
Just give the last man standing a mop and a trashcan and let him clear up all the bits afterwards...
Fight (Score:3, Informative)
And no, these kids were not "computer nerds". In fact, that part of Garland is considered a low-wealth, blue collar area; these are just punk kids who happen to use computers.