One very popular example of a flash mob is the March 2009 video that featured over 200 participants in Antwerp, Belgium, Central train station who spontaneously broke into choreographed dance steps to ...

The event in question was an aspirant “flash mob,” in which an “inexplicable crowd”—as described by the originator of the first mob, a New Yorker known simply as “Bill”—is summoned to a particular ...

On December 3, 2025, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program released “Reported Flash Mob Shoplifting Incidents: 2020-2024” on the FBI’s Crime Data ...

It takes two to tango. But it takes a lot more than that to start a flash mob. The 10th annual LA Summer Tango Marathon will take place across the South Bay next weekend, featuring a traveling “flash ...