It's when a mob materializes at a pre-determined location and follow some directions according to some anonymous emails to do something inane, and then quickly disperse soon after.
You have been flash mobbed
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Random acts of pointlessness - this summer's latest craze - are sweeping across America and Europe. Here comes the madding crowd, warn Elizabeth Day and Julian Coman in Washington
It is an overcast Thursday evening in Times Square, New York. In the Toys 'R' Us flagship department store, amid walls of candyfloss pink Barbie dolls and escalators full of excited children, a group of 500 adults has gathered round a 20ft-tall animatronic Tyrannosaurus.
As the dinosaur opens its fibreglass jaws to roar, they fall to their knees, moaning and waving their arms in a gesture of worship. Four minutes later, the group gets up and disperses without explanation.
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The trend, according to its would-be historians, began in New York in June, when more than 100 people mobbed Macy's store in Manhattan. All requested a "love rug" for a "suburban commune", sending shop assistants into a confused panic.
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New Yorkers used e-mail to coordinate a huge, instant gathering of people around a particular rug. Participants were instructed to tell questioning salesmen that they all lived together in a warehouse in Queens, and they were considering purchasing the item for use as a "Love Rug" back at the house. After precisely ten minutes the crowd dissipated.
Meeting up at Jack Dempsey's:
The rugs department at Macy's, crowded around a $10,000 rug:
On the way out, precisely at 7:37:
@ the fat guy
We should get a BC chapter started
Apr 29, 05
