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		alan_cx on April 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teen: I Am Not the Boston Marathon Bomber Unruly mobs tend to be made up of perfectly normal people, who never intended to be an unruly mob in the first place. It is remarkable hoe a group of people can suddenly act as one coherent unit. Not just in thought, if you observe a mob form the air they make patterns like migrating birds to.

Macsenour on April 18, 2013 | [–]

I'm pretty sure there's an OLD Twilight Zone episode about this very topic.

krapp on April 19, 2013 | | [–]

You might be thinking of this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_S...

lostlogin on April 19, 2013 | [–]

Nazi Germany.

alan_cx on April 19, 2013 | [–]

I was thinking of Northern Ireland, but yeah, Nazi German will do.

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