TYT: Flash Mob Theft (Video)

[The Northerner]

"A Chicago clothing store is out about $2,000 worth of merchandise after being hit by a "flash mob"-styled robbery. The robbery, captured by surveillance cameras at Mildblend Supply Co. and posted on YouTube, took place during the Wicker Park Fest street festival...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur breaks it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/29/flash-mob-robbery-mildble_n_1716373.html

Watch the original flash mob video here:

[rocktivity]

1. Brilliant enough to plan such a thing, dumb enough to put it on the Internet...

I've seen too many true crime shows where a surveillance tape has been high-tech enhanced in order to produce identifiable faces. So they might not be out of the woods.


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[Quantess]

3. I thought it was surveillance video?

[rocktivity]

6. I stand corrected

and relieved.


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[progressivebydesign]

2. Scumbags. Wish they'd send them to a 3rd world country for a month to show them real need.

They're nicely dressed, and they have no concept of what it would be like to have to leave your baby dead on the side of the road in order to reach a relief site, so your other children don't die.

I wish that they'd expand actual work camps for juvenile offenders, along with education. And bring back labor for prisoners, and take away tvs, and gyms. Incarceration should include: Cafeteria. Library. Classrooms. Work.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Spend a little more for high def cameras where you can actually see a face...

...I'm talking so much detail you can see a hair growing out of a mole.

Maybe even one on either side of the door frame that records you as you leave and another in the parking lot where you can read the license number of the getaway car.

Just a thought.

[fasttense]

5. First off, I can easily tell who those kids are.

Some minor detective work could easily enough find the perps. But is it worth it? It's maybe $100 per person stolen. The store can easily enough get their money back by filing an insurance claim.

Second, this is what you get when Politicians, CEOs and banksters commit crimes with no repercussions, NO accountability and no prosecution. People at the top set the example and their example is played out by people with less influence. The sign of the times.