MICHAEL TABMAN's Blog – August 2011 Archive (2)

Within seconds, a mob of dozens of teenagers storm a 7-Eleven convenience store at 2 in the morning and steal items off the shelves and out of the coolers. This event appears to have been a flash mob organized through some form of social media. This is not the first outbreak of a flash mob and disturbingly, it appears to be a trend. 



A teenager stealing candy from a store, while criminal, is not the kind of crime that we…