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.'"
With or without computers.... (Score:4, Insightful)
(This is why cops can catch them).
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.
Why this fails... (Score:5, Insightful)
As the man said... (Score:5, Insightful)
Ted Nelson
Comment removed (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
It's about time! (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:God willing... (Score:3, Insightful)
No, that's not the same. Contraception is a different thing entirely. It prevents the spread of diseases and makes unwanted pregnancy almost zero for those who actually use contraceptive devices. It allows those who cannot maintain manogomy to engage in recreational sexual activity with few drawbacks. There are VD's you can get even while using a condom but to say that all those who use condoms will die out is absurd. It just means that those who don't 'screw up' can have children when they want them.
There will always be schoolyard bullies with inadequacy issues who will always be robbing small children of lunch money. There don't always need to be gangs. I've known quite a few gang members and I really know what they get out of it. A lot of the needs they have that gangs provide can be removed. It is a social problem. It is difficult to get people to care about things they don't normally see. Where I live, gang activity is frequently reported in the news. Yet still, you have to live in a 'bad neighborhood' to actually see any of it in person. That's why no one cares. Unemployment, poverty, homelessness, child abuse, split families, child neglect, bad parenting skills, fear, money, there are too many factors to list. Be sure, however, they are not insurmountable problems. The violence can be stopped, but law enforcement isn't the solution, it's the band-aid to the symptoms.
FLASH MOB? WRONG DEFINITION! (Score:0, Insightful)
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?!
WHY IS THIS INSIGHTFUL? (Score:3, Insightful)
Which is why I'm amazed that anyone would mod this as insightful. Advocating violence is insightful? While the world copes with the gruesome death of Mr. Berg we've got people advocating further violence and people thinking it's insightful? WTF?
Re:Why this fails... (Score:2, Insightful)
Aww look, a teen goth!
Re:Should have let them kill eachother (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't see how killing innocent people whilst letting those who are guilty walk free will benefit society in any way.
Re:Should have let them kill eachother (Score:3, Insightful)
If you can't see a difference between allowing potentially unsafe driving conditions and having the government killing innocent people, you're a moron.
Re:Scoop! (Score:1, Insightful)
Can we finally lay this piece of shit from Heinlein to rest? The U.S. is without a doubt a heavily armed society. Polite? Not even close.
Heinlein was a racist, misogynistic homophobe fascist.
You are a dumbass.