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I heard on NPR a year ago,
maybe 18 years ago, about how--

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I think it was in Philadelphia--

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there were teens who
were, through Facebook,

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were creating flash mobs
and vandalizing businesses--

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to the point that
Philadelphia was really

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thinking about what
they were going

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to do to stop the teens,
which I found frightening.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So I wrote this.

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Flash mob teen violence.

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The teens are assembling.

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They climb through windows
while families sit down to eat.

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Help themselves to
potatoes and throw plates.

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They spear forks through walls,
and swing on chandeliers.

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They grab wine after
polite requests,

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then let it pour on
white carpets, and laugh.

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"This is a blood
stain," one screams.

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"This is Jesus," says another.

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This is your future.

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So many teens in
one room, they're

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like rabbits gnawing
on their own feet.

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They move from dining room
to living room, fine china

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on heads, until plates
become discs sent

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through television screens.

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Some grab lamps, other cushions
on the way to the store.

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Come one, come all.

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Lamps through windows,
cushions as shields.

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"Take hangers," they scream.

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"Take carts.

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Take chocolate bars.

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Take index cards.

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Take, take, take."

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And they multiply in the
jungle, in the field.

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They have cuts.

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They have bombs.

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They have fists
They have babies.

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They have the numbers.

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