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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 ...
Mobbed is an American hidden camera reality television show based on the use of flash mobs as part of the spectacle for the delivery of an important personal message. The show, created by Howie Mandel , Darryl Trell, and Howard Kitrosser, aired on March 31, 2011, as a one-time special on Fox .
The term often used by the media for this type of event is "flash rob", which originates from flash mobs, [4] where a group of people assemble quickly, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act, and then disperse. In Chile this kind of robbery is known as turbazo. [8] In Brazil this kind of robbery is known as "arrastão".
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.
One friend group pulled out all the stops to spread cheer this season — by performing extravagant, holiday-themed, in-home flash mobs for unsuspecting DoorDash drivers.
With the tagline of "Living Wages, Healthy Communities," Respect DC is a community of workers, students, parents and organizations all concerned with one common goal -- the quality of life in ...
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 ...
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 has grown in notoriety since joining the site in April 2006.