One very popular example of a flash mob is the March 2009 video that featured over 200 participants in Antwerp, Belgium, Central train station who spontaneously broke into choreographed dance steps to ...

The dramatic video footage often appears on TV news and social media: A large group of people storm into a store, smashing display cases and snatching loose merchandise before escaping in minutes ...

Common police strategy for preventing flash mobs has been tightening of curfews. Aug. 27, 2011— -- When a massive flash mob rampaged outside the Wisconsin State Fair injuring 11 fairgoers on Aug.

The world’s first flash mob was organized in Manhattan in May 2003 by a man named Bill Wasik. It was a flop because the retail store was tipped off. Wasik organized the second attempt on June 3, 2003.

When brazen groups of thieves in all-black clothes and hoodies sprinted into the Nordstrom at the Topanga Mall, the Yves Saint Laurent store at the Americana on Brand in Glendale and a pop-up Gucci ...

Sometimes the thieves entered toting trash bags. In other instances, the culprits burst through department stores, hauling away what they could carry in their arms. In one case, a man nonchalantly ...

"Step Up Revolution" taps into the dance "flash mob" phenomenon and moves to Miami to give us the sunniest and most entertaining of these kids-gotta -dance musicals. The flash mobs - in traffic, ...

Area residents dressed in festive costumes gather on Maplewood Road to perform for trick-or-treaters as the crowd watches during a Halloween flash mob Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Riegelsville. The ...

The phenomenon of the flash mob — masses of people organized using social media — began innocently enough and quickly mushroomed. Among the highlights in recent years: One hundred people danced to ...

Dec. 3 (UPI) --A five-year FBI report shows shoplifting incidents related to flash mob groups are responsible for more than $8 million in stolen goods. On Wednesday, the uniform crime reporting unit ...

This video is no longer available. D.C. tourists visiting the Jefferson Memorial got a treat on Saturday afternoon, when the International Flash Mob of West Coast Swing took over the Tidal Basin.