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...know these guys? By day, mild-mannered and polite. By baseball game, you’d hardly know ’em. But their outburst prompts a precious episode: a love-hate triangle between the Marlboro Mob, a lone Angels fan—and the Boy Scouts. It’s Jamboree time, and the troops are out in force, seas of brown in orange stands. The Marlboro Mob moves from chanting Oriole and Angel numbers to chanting troop numbers...
That would seem to set up a choice: Are we to have a low-crime society, in which cops are violent cowboys, or a high-crime culture, in which cops can't stop a mob without written Justice Department approval? That dilemma is surely a creaky contrivance. Police can be effective without being jackbooted thugs. But many cities besides Cincinnati will probably face this question in coming months as lawmakers look to monitor police activity and as police protest the new rules...
MONTREAL—By July 16, 2001, Red Sox Nation’s invasion of Montreal was already two days old. Hours before the evening’s Olympic Stadium showdown, a French-Canadian tour guide was surrounded by a rowdy mob donning the traditional red-B headwear of the city’s transient majority. Initially the Expos employee concludes his tour with the customary “I hope you all enjoy the game tonight,” but then sensing the opportunity for last-second tips from the privileged throwing around their foreign currency like play money...
...Indeed, the system has become so evolved that there are well-established rent-a-mob organizers with laminated price lists. It's somewhere in the region of $2 a demonstrator per hour, more if there are banners. And if you want them for more than three hours, you have to provide lunch...
...managed to find a new job after recently being laid off, wiles away his days in karaoke lounges. "Such good distraction?and cheap, too," he says. The music might be a salve for now, but Almadrigo is precisely the sort of person who could wind up in a violent mob similar to the crowd of mostly unemployed laborers that stormed Manila's presidential palace in April...