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08-15-2011, 4:45pm
Don't think it's a dupe...
A breathtaking video which shows around 30 people entering a 7-Eleven store and stealing countless items from the shelves is being seen as evidence that flash mob attacks are beginning to spread the country. At just before 2am on Saturday, a large group entered the shop in Germantown, Maryland, rifled through crisps, drinks and ice creams on sale and then left without paying. It appears to be a flash mob attack, similar to the ones which caused chaos at the Wisconsin State Fair, and forced the Mayor of Philadelphia to issue a curfew for under 18s in his city.
The owner of the 7-Eleven in Maryland provided the surveillance video to NBC Washington but did not want the specific location of the store to be identified. When asked if what happened was a flash mob, the owner's son, Mohammad Jebanzeb, said: 'That's what it looks like from the video. 'You can see about 25 to 35 people entered the store all at once. They grabbed everything they could grab and ran out of the store - it looked like it was pretty organised.' The clerk was helpless once he realised what was happening and did not confront anyone who was taking items off the shelves. But he hit the panic button behind the register, which alerts police to a robbery.
'It's just shocking to see they're not afraid of any repercussions from their actions,' Mr Jebanzeb added. 'They're all smiling, and they're laughing.
'They got what they wanted to rob a and they just walked right out of the store like they're not afraid of law enforcement.'
Montgomery County Police did respond but not until after the flash mob was gone.
Mr Jebanzeb said an officer looked at the video but did not take a copy of it. He was told it would be hard to catch people based on these images, but police are trying to identify members of the flash mob. The offenders took candy, drinks, crisps and ice-cream. These are small-ticket items, which police said they would consider shop-lifting.
A spokesman for Montgomery County Police said: 'We're going to take this very seriously. The number of people involved in this [shows they] clearly had a plan, this was an orchestrated event. 'They were in control of that store for the minute or so they were in there taking items off the shelves.'
Police said they would check social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to see if any of those involved posted videos. The incident comes just days after the Wisconsin State Fair was blighted by a mob who assaulted innocent bystanders. Witnesses reported black people attacking whites. And Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter issued a curfew for under 18s in the city after a series of assaults by people in the African-American community.
Mayor Nutter said in a speech to black youths: 'You have damaged your own race.'
Police Let Flash Mob Rob 7-11 - YouTube
My favorite part? At the :50 mark check out the dumbass girl that puts the chips back on the shelf... AS SHE IS F**KING LOOTING THE PLACE.
I would ask where the parents are but... well... yea.
On a side note... I did not write this article and take zero responsibility for the atrocious spelling and grammar errors throughout.
A breathtaking video which shows around 30 people entering a 7-Eleven store and stealing countless items from the shelves is being seen as evidence that flash mob attacks are beginning to spread the country. At just before 2am on Saturday, a large group entered the shop in Germantown, Maryland, rifled through crisps, drinks and ice creams on sale and then left without paying. It appears to be a flash mob attack, similar to the ones which caused chaos at the Wisconsin State Fair, and forced the Mayor of Philadelphia to issue a curfew for under 18s in his city.
The owner of the 7-Eleven in Maryland provided the surveillance video to NBC Washington but did not want the specific location of the store to be identified. When asked if what happened was a flash mob, the owner's son, Mohammad Jebanzeb, said: 'That's what it looks like from the video. 'You can see about 25 to 35 people entered the store all at once. They grabbed everything they could grab and ran out of the store - it looked like it was pretty organised.' The clerk was helpless once he realised what was happening and did not confront anyone who was taking items off the shelves. But he hit the panic button behind the register, which alerts police to a robbery.
'It's just shocking to see they're not afraid of any repercussions from their actions,' Mr Jebanzeb added. 'They're all smiling, and they're laughing.
'They got what they wanted to rob a and they just walked right out of the store like they're not afraid of law enforcement.'
Montgomery County Police did respond but not until after the flash mob was gone.
Mr Jebanzeb said an officer looked at the video but did not take a copy of it. He was told it would be hard to catch people based on these images, but police are trying to identify members of the flash mob. The offenders took candy, drinks, crisps and ice-cream. These are small-ticket items, which police said they would consider shop-lifting.
A spokesman for Montgomery County Police said: 'We're going to take this very seriously. The number of people involved in this [shows they] clearly had a plan, this was an orchestrated event. 'They were in control of that store for the minute or so they were in there taking items off the shelves.'
Police said they would check social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to see if any of those involved posted videos. The incident comes just days after the Wisconsin State Fair was blighted by a mob who assaulted innocent bystanders. Witnesses reported black people attacking whites. And Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter issued a curfew for under 18s in the city after a series of assaults by people in the African-American community.
Mayor Nutter said in a speech to black youths: 'You have damaged your own race.'
Police Let Flash Mob Rob 7-11 - YouTube
My favorite part? At the :50 mark check out the dumbass girl that puts the chips back on the shelf... AS SHE IS F**KING LOOTING THE PLACE.
I would ask where the parents are but... well... yea.
On a side note... I did not write this article and take zero responsibility for the atrocious spelling and grammar errors throughout.