*Ø* Blogmanac | 'Flash mobs' spread to Europe

[The Spirit of Yippie -- or is the Spirit of Yuppie? -- lives.]

"LONDON, England -- The craze for "flash mobs," where jokers gather en masse at a moment's notice, perform an inane activity and then disperse quickly, is spreading across Europe.

"Arranged via Web sites and e-mails, flash mob members voluntarily and simultaneously converge to the venue mentioned in a general e-mail and then collect detailed instructions for the event. They partake in a silly and harmless activity and then disperse at a given time ...

"The concept has spread quickly, across the United States to Europe, Australia and Singapore.

"The first European mob took place in Rome on July 24, when 300 people entered a music and bookshop asking for non-existent titles.

"The latest flash mob incident took occurred at 6.01 p.m. on August 1, in Berlin, where about 40 people in the middle of a busy street took out their cell phones and shouted, "yes, yes!" and then applauded, according to The New York Times.

The next Flash mobs have been planned in London on August 7, Amsterdam on August 8, Dublin, Sheffield, Zurich and Vienna."
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Flash mobs at stock markets and military installations, now that sounds even more fun. Plenty on Flash mobs if you google it. And this one advertises on the google page but as far as I can tell, it's definitely a yuppie thing -- networking for suits. You tell me.

FlashMob.info