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Referred to as flash robs, flash mob robberies, or flash robberies by the media, crimes organized by teenage youth using social media rose to international notoriety beginning in 2011. [12] [13] [14] [40] The National Retail Federation does not classify these crimes as "flash mobs" but rather "multiple offender crimes" that utilize "flash mob ...
Improv Everywhere has stated that they do not identify their work with the term flash mob, in part because the group was created two years prior to the flash mob trend, and the group has an apolitical nature. [1] While Improv Everywhere was created years before YouTube, the group
Teenagers who carried out flash mob robberies at a string of 7-Eleven convenience stores in Los Angeles were turned in to police after their parents spotted them on surveillance video.
In Miami, a flash mob, later identified as "The Mob", shuts down Ocean Drive briefly by cutting off the streets with retro convertibles and dancing on cars to music blasted by DJ Penelope. A few hours later, Sean Asa, Eddy, and Jason Hardlerson, the leaders of The Mob, watch their latest flash mob air on the television news in a restaurant ...
While ordinary pillow fights have existed for a long time, these events are massive in scale, occur in public and are promoted primarily via the internet. Many massive pillow fights have been organized in an effort to break Guinness World Records, but the current record is a pillow fight among 7,861 people achieved by MyPillow, Inc. (USA) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, on 18 May 2018.
The sophistication, novelty and diversity of tactics and methods used by protests in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests have been noted by many scholars and news outlets around the world. They range from new principles of autonomy and decentralisation, incorporating different methods of demonstration, economic and social protest, and most ...
Tissiflashmob (Finnish for "tits flash mob") was a demonstration organised by Sandra Marins and Säde Vallarén, [2] which was held for the first time in June 2019 at the Hietaniemi beach in Helsinki, Finland. The organisers held the demonstration in criticism for a previous event where a woman had been removed from a beach for sunbathing ...
Los Angeles Police confirmed that flash mobs of boys and young men on bicycles are attacking convenience store 7-Elevens throughout the city and detailed 14 incidents between July and September.