When flash mobs were banned in Mumbai,
mobbers from all over the world joined together online to offer advice and support, and eventually the mobs moved to other cities in India.
It's an odd Internet-age fad known as "flash mobbing." Flash
mobbers forward e-mail instructions for people to congregate at a designated spot at a specified time to perform a short whimsical act--such as a quick snooze or a 15-second clapping session.
By MOB #6--in which, on the first Thursday evening in August, five hundred mobbers suddenly fell to their knees in the Times Square Toys "R" Us and cowered before the store's animatronic, to-scale Tyrannosaurus rex--flash mobs had been either scheduled or executed not only in scores of U.S.
The line, which would eventually stretch a quarter-mile around the entire block-sized church, was to be unaccountably present for precisely five minutes; and if, during this time, a bypasser asked the mobbers what they were lining up for, they were to respond that they "heard they're selling Strokes tickets." The Strokes were a then-popular rock band among the hipsters.
We looked out at the restless crowd of "flash mobbers" packing up against the stage, their boredom having prompted them to throw a hailstorm of increasingly dangerous material into the air: balloons, then empty water bottles, then full water bottles, then aluminum cans.
the mobbers loitered on the upper level, among the GI Joes and the Nintendos and up inside the glittering pink of the two-floor Barbie palace.
MOBBER TWO: Well, from what I've read, he's a--he works in the culture industry, and that's--that's about as specific as we've gotten with him.
