Surveillance footage at a Portland, Oregon, gas station convenience store this week captured what an Oregonian reporter is calling a “mob rob”:
A group of 15 to 20 males and females calmly walked into a Chevron in the 9100-block of Southeast Foster Road between 11:15 p.m. and 11:23 p.m. and snatched roughly $200 worth of beef jerky, candy and beer before leaving en masse.
But this unfortunate event is nothing new, deriving from the flash mob phenomenon that began as a creative form of social entertainment and a gorilla style of marketing like this one at the premier of The Ohio State University’s new student union the summer of 2010.
And “mob robberies” may happen more than you think.