Not the Australian mall riot, but still a riot.

It’s not every day a trip to the mall ends in a massive riot, but that’s just what happened at a mall in Sydney, Australia.  Facebook, that tool for freedom activists and bored teenagers, has its positive uses and its negative uses.  For instance, a negative use of Facebook would be to use it to carry out gang wars.  A massive 100-person brawl between rival gangs at Mount Druitt Westfield shopping center was organized via Facebook, according to police.

“I think we’re all entitled to go to a shopping centre on a Thursday night, just go about out normal business … without getting caught up in a brawl where two groups of teenagers want to meet and just punch on in a shopping centre,” said New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Denis Clifford.  “Whether it’s over some sort of turf war or whether they take exception to rap music, whatever these excuses are they’re putting up.  Clearly they don’t own the streets, they don’t own the shopping center, they belong to the community.  This is about telling them this is not your shopping centre, they’re not your streets; you can’t carry on like this.”

So far, 30 people have been arrested and charged over the mall brawl, and Sydney police swear they’re going to comb through miles of surveillance tape in an attempt to find out the names of everyone involved in the fight.  Yeah, good luck with that, guys.

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