Re: Brussels – I had a rude wake-up call to this when I spent a night near one of the main Brussels train stations. Previously, I had always stayed at my parents ‘ home in a middle class neighborhood at Waterloo and had not been exposed to the areas around the train stations. it came as a shock to me when a man(North African) offered to escort me to my hotel and told me to stay inside the hotel and to leave by taxi the next morning.He told me he had been assaulted by local gangs and that no one was safe in this milieu.Yet the hotel was on booking.com. Later on i learned that yes in fact this whole quartier was considered a hotbed of crime it was so strange near the trainstaion I was the only non-Morrocan there ordering a coffee and i felt so bizarre at being in Belgium , close to where i had grown up, and being treated as an unwelcome outsider.Suh a bizarre feeling.

I have never seen white flash mobs or heard them reported. Check out Colin Flaherty, who receives videos of mob violence and crime not reported by media. Pghmd or his podcast.

Normally at Walmart you can’t blend unless you have some major plumbers butt hanging out of your leotard.

I would love to see someone develops a weapon you could spray out of a can that would deploy a sticky net or spiderweb like substance that would completely tangle or wrap up a person or a group of people.

Maybe decent able bodied men shoppers should start forming into shopping coalitions like rapid response units to repeal, (beat the shit out of) these mobs when they form. Walmart could also have trained employees who advance on the mob with big snakes to throw at the mobsters. This demographic doesn’t like snakes. That’s why I have signs on my windows that say, “large snakes roam free in this house”

Why don’t more people carry pepper spray and a defense in flash mob situations. I think some really good ones are available. Chances are, it’s not the mobs objective to kill you, and some potent pepper spray may disrupt the mobs momentum enough to get away. If pepper spray, reach an exit, and then are pursued, then you are being targeted, are at risk, and could shoot.

Now I agree that if someone tried to hold you up, and they potentially have a gun, you probably should not try as first defense anything but deadly force, but it just my current opinion that pepper spray could be effective in allowing you time to escape a mob environment. Am I wrong?

Well said, 15 years principal. This was before social media. 90% of the fights, mobs that occured at my school were not only black majority, but some were 100% black.

Well said.

carry a gun, with the violence every day I now never leave home without mine and an extra clip. In Florida we have the “stand your ground law”.
As an ex police officer I am always aware of my surroundings and if threatened I will defend myself. And get one that holds at least 12 or more rounds.