This is a new one to me:
On Saturday, St. Paul police say 50 kids swarmed a Holiday store on Wabasha, a so-called mob theft or mob robbery. They stormed in together, their numbers overwhelming and just started stealing.
"They steal your basic convenience store type of goods and run out," says St. Paul Police Department spokesperson Andy Skoogman.
Apparently there have been four similar incidents in Ramsey County in the last six months.
I'm truly amazed that they could get 50 kids together who would agree to do something like that. When I was that age you could get 50 kids together for a lot of different reasons, not all of them legal. But to mob rob a store? I don't think that would have been possible back then even in some of the roughest neighborhoods.
I don't want to make too much of it, but it's not a good sign. Video report below.
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