Flash Mobs a Threat to Security? 582
RawCode writes "News about a recent report released by the RCMP suggests that flash mobs could pose a future threat to security. 'Some are aimed at celebrities. Tech-savvy teenaged girls in Britain can quickly spread the word on the whereabouts of Prince William, surrounding him with hundreds of screaming fans. Some are political, organizing protests. Text-messaging was instrumental to organizing public demonstrations in the Phillippines that forced President Joseph Estrada from office'."
New Campaign Ad? (Score:0, Funny)
Imagine... (Score:0, Funny)
Flash Mobs? (Score:5, Funny)
Mobs of flashing girls? (Score:5, Funny)
now THAT's a power to be reckoned with!
Flash mobs? (Score:5, Funny)
(Yeah yeah, and tell them they can have their joke back too)
You'd think . . . . (Score:2, Funny)
So what is the TSA then? (Score:2, Funny)
Flash Coffee and Ice Cream (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, I'm that old. This was around 1986 or so.
Anyway, one night there was a food run declared for midnight at the Lyons restaurant in Capitola. One hundred and ten students descended all at once on the otherwise empty restaurant, and all ordered coffee, some ice cream, and at the end asked for separate checks, each of which ranged from maybe one to five dollars.
There were only a couple employees on staff when we arrived. It took a long time to get served because they had to call off-duty employees on the phone, waking them out of bed to come work for the hour or two we were there.
As we prepared to depart, the restaurant manager sternly said "Don't ever do that again".
Re:Imagine... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Sure it is a threat. (Score:5, Funny)
I'm thinking more of a biohazard.
Re:Ugh (Score:3, Funny)
My first thought to that was "well I suppose if you use a catapult. .
Sorry, bad joke
This is even a greater threat to national security (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm... (Score:3, Funny)
All you need is a sorority girl phone tree (Score:4, Funny)
Arianna H. talks about it [oraculartree.com], too.
The unfathomable mind of law-enforcement... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ehm.. (Score:5, Funny)
Hell, yes! We're
So, just jam them! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:as always, our leaders look out for the elite (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe it would be better to cordon off the areas of the cities where the main terrorist targets are living or working: the business district, famous celebrities, politicians, influential business leaders etc and make sure they are well defended and secure.
The main terrorist suspects could live outside this cordoned off area and maybe be given passes to get into to work as cleaners, shop assistants etc if they conform to sufficiently secure personality profiles.
Terrorism is clearly the biggest and most dangerous threat the world has ever known and it's only by protecting those in power who do there best to protect us all that we can defeat it, that and lot's of bombs - laser guided bombs.
About ten minutes ago (Score:3, Funny)
Project Mayhem (Score:3, Funny)
The first rule of project mayhem is you do not ask questions.
Re:Emulate the Swiss in crime prevention (Score:3, Funny)
In a secret bunker somewhere (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Protecting those in power from the evil truth. (Score:3, Funny)
"The majority of people who come out to wave do so in a friendly fashion, although there is of course the occasional unfriendly wave."
-- George W. Bush
Re:When I first read the headline... (Score:2, Funny)
That's not terrorism, that's cultural improvement!
He's only a terrorist if you don't agree with him, after all.
Re:Threat to Security? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:innate, perhaps (Score:3, Funny)