Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
Play up the outrage factor and suddenly groups bond together like never before - and prepare to attack like never before.
I'm not into those kind of rivalries. I remember standing out in front of Stratford, minding my own business. Carload of about eighty kids would pull up: 'STRATFORD SUCKS!' Am I supposed to run after these guys? I'd just stand there, you know. They'd back up. 'STRATFORD SUCKS! ...STRATFORD SUCKS!' I'd say, 'I know. I go there. You're wasting gas, man.
Kids will always find something to pick on, whether it's your color, your religion, the way you look, your size. You try and stand up for yourself, but it's really difficult when you've got 20 or 30 girls against you.
A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
One of the chief characteristics of a mob is its quickness. It is sudden. It pounces.
Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas?
Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.
Coyotes hunt in packs, and so do assholes.
If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb.
