Here's the somewhat skeptical take from the News & Observer: http://newsobserver.com/news/triangle/story/2808166p-2595579c.html
Don't miss this zinger at the end: "The fad's appearance at a suburban shopping mall in North Carolina's high-tech headquarters might suggest that the oddball trend, which began in May in New York City, has just about run its course." --Jeremy On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 19:14, Paul Jones wrote: > This report just in from the Mob organizer (not me for sure, but i was > there and it was delightful): > > Well, the first flash mob in North Carolina went off without a hitch. At > 3:35 PM on Saturday, August 23, about 80 mobbers suddenly appeared in the > center of an outdoor section of a large, new mall in the area called > Southpoint on a busy Saturday afternoon. Half were wearing a light > colored top, half a dark, and there was a shootout with hand guns (make a > gun with your hand, and say "bang"). Everybody was killed pretty quickly > (quicker than I had hoped, but it was still a wild shootout), and promptly > laid down to die and moan in the middle of the mall. After the corpses > had started to stink in the sun (about a minute... it was hot out), the > entire mob got up and promptly dissapated. I'm happy to say that it went > off without a hitch. One of the flyer-hander-outer-guys came close to > being thwarted by a security guard, but luckily, that didn't happen. The > crowd was apprpriately shocked and confused, and traffic in that part of > the mall temporarily stopped due to the large shootout and subsequent > death of the mob. All of the participants seemed to grasp the concept. > There was no sign of the mob either before or after the event. All in all > it was a fun time. STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT NORTH CAROLINA MOB COMING > SOON!!! > > ========================================================================== > Paul Jones > "Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." Alasdair Gray > http://www.ibiblio.org/pjones/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (919) 962-7600 fax: (919) 962-8071 > =========================================================================== > > _______________________________________________ > labratz mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/labratz -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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