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Not talking about peaceful demonstrations - I mean straight-up mobs. Flipping over newspaper machines, burning garbage cans, pelting the fuzz with stones... chaos and mayhem in a civil society.

Have you been in a good mob, or watched from the sidelines? And what about mobs in popular culture, i.e. the pitchfork and torch wielding mobs in 'Frankenstein' and 'To Kill A Mockingbird?' Mob pics also, please.

― andy, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Mobs: Angry or Misunderstood? tonight on Dateline

― Luigi Vampa (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i want one of those wooden pitchfork things

...cuz, you just never know...

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i went out for a few days during the anti-war protests to take pictures. it was pretty freaky at times. the second day i was out, i was following a break off faction of anarchist gutter punks and got caught up in a sweep. kids were getting hit with billy clubs left and right. the whole 300 of us got arrested. it was an 8hr process where i was stuck in the middle of a street, handcuffed and had to wait on a bus and in a gigantic warehouse - the whole time i had to pee like a fucking racehorse. not fun at all. i eventually had to go to court and it was dismissed.

here are pictures from the first day of protests. i have pictures from the second day, but i never got around to scanning them.

http://www.art-ificial.com/protest/
(the bottom frame with the thumbnails does scroll, but sometimes you have to resize your window to get scrollbars)

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

columbus, ohio on football days. burning couches in the street, fans running wild, police helicopters... not nearly as picturesque as the pitchfork & torch brigades in black & white films. i have a huge soft spot for those.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.enquirer.com/unrest/img/410beanbagsB.jpg

Cincinnati!!

― andy, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Erm, no, I try to avoid mobs. Good old Uncle George kinda turned us off them for several generations... ;-)

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/leisure_heritage/libraries_archives_museums_galleries/lma/galleries/images/gordon_riots06_m.jpg

― the river fleet, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I've only witnessed drunken celebratory mobs revelling in college athletics victories, albeit drunken celebratory mobs revelling in college athletics victories who happened to uproot shrubberies and throw glass bottles into densely populated areas and tip over news vans etc. Sometimes I'm amazed at how fucked up my town is.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.multied.com/revolt/photos/Tea.GIF

The Greatest Mob of All: The Boston Tea Party
December 16th, 1773

― andy, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Did they actually tar and feather people at the Boston Tea Party?

― the river fleet, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you been in a good mob, or watched from the sidelines?

I watched parts of Los Angeles burn from atop Mulholland Dr. during the LA riots. I wouldn't call that couple of days a "good" riot though.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I just noticed that ominous noose in the tree... the Boston Tea and Lynching of the Tarred & Feathered British Agent Party. Must have been a hoot.

― andy, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.gamespy.com/top10/october00/war3/goodfellas.jpg

(Serious: I have witnessed/been part of the tearing down and parading of at least three different football goalposts. This is mobbing for no damn good reason and in retrospect it was completely horrible)

("retrospect")

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

steady mobbin

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 06:09 (twenty-two years ago)

mobs r dumm

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 08:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.novacheck.co.uk/images/px_cap.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

*shudders*

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.footballsupporters.info/library/library.htm
http://www.bernardomahoney.com/forthcb/ootdie/media/millwallbvm01.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/810000/images/_813953_yob150.jpg

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

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