Flash Mob Gang Warfare 325
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.'"
Scoop! (Score:5, Funny)
cool (Score:2, Funny)
yeah (Score:3, Funny)
You know what they sing (Score:5, Funny)
Should have let them kill eachother (Score:5, Funny)
Why do I think this all started with.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:God willing... (Score:3, Funny)
Like slash-dotting?
n3wzF1a5h (Score:4, Funny)
n3wz @ 11!!!
oh great (Score:4, 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)
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)
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)
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)
Online gangs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:West Side Story (Score:3, Funny)
"Arab, I'm gonna make nice with him. I'm only gonna challenge 'em."
"Cool, Daddy-o."
Especially with OSX! (Score:5, Funny)
(rimshot)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What crime was committed? (Score:1, Funny)
Bodily harm is a tort anywhere. The idea of "consent" is not recognized.
If it's ok to arrest these "gangs" for fighting then please arrest every amature football player too.
Do you mean "armature" football or "amateur" football?
Rich! (Score:5, Funny)
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:Slashdot effect street fight!!! (Score:3, Funny)
I don't think either side would acquit themselves well. Though the cops may have trouble; they'd be laughing too hard to effectively make the arrests.
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.
Re:Why this fails... (Score:5, Funny)
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
There's another kind?
Re:Scoop! (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:Why this fails... (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Online gangs (Score:4, Funny)
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.
You know what they sing -- Reprise (Score:3, Funny)
2 nite, 2 nite,
I'll flame ur ass 2 nite.
For us, the n00bz will drop where they are.
2 day
I'll never take a shower,
The FPS go slowly,
And still the sky is light...
Oh Doom, grow bright,
Chat turns 2 day into a fight!
- a.c.
Re:I'd love to read that transcript (Score:5, Funny)
Darwin (Score:4, Funny)
Ah....Darwin works in mysterious ways sometimes....or perhaps some not so mysterious ways as found in this case.
They got it all wrong! (Score:2, Funny)
Come on, don't these gangs know good internet ettiquette?
A real reason to fight (Score:2, Funny)
Vi vs Emacs
Re:Chat logs anyone? (Score:4, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
Mob points (Score:2, Funny)
Lucky they werent Highlander fans (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's about time! (Score:2, Funny)
Vercotti: Doug. (takes a drink) Well, I was terrified of him. Everyone was terrified of Doug. I've seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Doug. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Doug.
Interviewer: What did he do?
Vercotti: He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious.
Re:It's about time! (Score:2, Funny)
take a nice headshot with a 30-06 hunting rifle and a good scope.
"everybody" does not talk tough on the internet, just the weenies
<insert sound of ironic handclap here>