Upper Darby police released this surveillance image that they said was recorded during the invasion of the store by dozens of youths.
Posted on 06/27/2011 11:55:30 AM PDT by NoLibZone
DOZENS OF West Philly boys - ranging in age from 11 to 19 - stormed a Sears store in Upper Darby on Thursday as part of a "flash mob" and made off with thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise, police said.
Upper Darby police released this surveillance image that they said was recorded during the invasion of the store by dozens of youths.
Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said he believed that the group organized the mass theft through social networking, although the exact networking site was not yet clear.
He said that the kids traveled together on public transportation and arrived at the store on 69th Street en masse about 7:10 p.m.
The kids - Chitwood estimated there were around 40 boys - scattered throughout the store and began to "rob, steal and pillage," he said.
They took everything from sneakers to watches but left behind the boxes and tags, Chitwood said.
As of this weekend, Sears was still trying to tally up its losses, which were believed to be in the thousands of dollars, police said.
Responding officers were able to capture 16 of the suspects, the youngest of which was 11 and the oldest, 19. The 19-year-old was charged with retail theft and corrupting the morals of a minor.
The other 15, all of whom were juveniles from West Philadelphia, were charged with retail theft and released to the custody of their parents, Chitwood said.
"When this mob mentality comes to a community and robs a village, there has to be consequences," he said. "That's the only way you're going to stop this."
Chitwood said that while some of the parents were very upset when they picked their kids up, for some, it seemed just "like part of a day's work."
"People have to realize this is not condoned, funny or cute. It's criminal. Period," Chitwood said. "If you've got an 11-year-old involved in this type of mob mentality, what are they going to be doing when they are 16?"
Sounds like target practice to me. 11 years old or not, “pour encourager les autres” may be the answer.
Philly should follow the example of Vancouver and start a Facebook page and ask for people to ID the miscreants.
Obaffan SS stormtroopers picking up their pay.
Tiny nugget of good news buried in there, although they don't say who "the parents were very upset" with.
I'm guessing that approximately half the upset parents were upset with the cops.
What a racist photograph! Everybody knows that it could have just as easily been 5-11 year old Amish girls. < / sarcasm >
Probably upset they got caught.................
ACORN (or whatever phony name it goes by now) summer employees passing their probationary test.
Oh yeah. That'll happen.
This is learned at home,Blame and hate,so anything goes here,the solution is to shoot a bunch of them.
You think the hood is going to snitch on the hood? Yeah, right.
The perps in Vancouver were generally otherwise normal people with community contacts (UBC, etc).
You know there is a large Amish population within a day's wagon ride of Philly. < / sarc >
Clerks armed with Pepper Spray and handcuffs. Screen all people coming in store. Many years ago some small stores would only allow 2-3 youths in the store at atime.
The most racist photo I have ever seen. This must be suppressed.
Excess melanin made them do it.
Excess melanin made them do it.
White folks’ greed runs a world in need ...What those young people are thinking, like their great man Obama, who like look up to and respect:
Face it you whiteys, all thats stuff is just be your greed, stuffs you gots by exploiting the black man. We's needs it, we's taking it. Don't you be all racist and try and stops us now! It's OURS, you crackahs!Consider what the average black youngster, raised in by a single mom, on welfare, on food stamps, trained in schools where they teach HOW BAD and oppressive the white slave-owners were. Taught that everything they do is good, gold stars and happy faces. Not held to any account.OBAMA! Obama is the President! You leave us alone, this stuff is ours and we's taking it back!
Consider what the example of Obama and his life-legend looks means to them.
THIS is the result. It's not a racist way of looking at what is happening in this Sears, or in the many other urban flash mobs incidents last year and this, it's the honest way of looking at them. The racial component is the strongest component.
Liberals and Marxists have destroyed the urban black, and are THIS close to creating a feral generation of the wild, so wild and dangerous that they will end up having to be dealt with very harshly, if the elites and the richest of America hold onto their toxic and destructive social philosophies that destroy families, if the march of suicidal liberal social polices is not fiercely rejected by a majority.
Lock the doors and kill them like rabid dogs if they threaten the employees or owners.
This is the “Change” that Obama had promised and brought upon us. Do you hear him running to his teleprompter to denounce this stuff? No. Does he try to act like a “Big Brother” to the kids and show them how it is not in their interest to do this stuff? No. He ENCOURAGES it by his silence and also doing his Reverend Wright impression. Thanks to all you liberal and independent idiots who thought it would be cool to hire a minor league Marxist as President. When your kids turn their faces up to you and ask,”What happened to our country” what will you tell them? Bush’s fault?
Flash mob activity seems to be the work of anarchists.
Send out a “tweet” for strangers to suddenly organize at a specified public spot for who knows what.
Test the line of communications. Send out harmless sounding calls to gather so you can have enough patsies to create a distraction from your own planned activity.
Only a simpleton would follow such marching orders.
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