That's what happened at the Century III mall I described. Kids would take public transit from Clairton (not an urban area, just a small mill town with a considerable ghetto-like crime problem) a new miles north to the mall and scare the older, local shoppers silly. Then they decided to move on to an adjoining shopping center and wreaked havoc in the movie theatre there. The funny thing is that Century III isn't in an upscale area. It's in an old, established mostly working-class southern suburb of Pittsburgh. The mall was built where steel mills used to dump slag, back in the olden days.
It's a real case study for a sociologist, I suppose, but an inconvenience for shoppers!
@mountaineer The last time I went to a movie at the theater in the semi-local mall I mentioned it was full of black youts (there is a black college in that city),and they were shouting out to each other and talking to the actors on the screen,making it hard for a semi-deaf geezer like me to hear what the actors were saying. One was maybe 16-18 years old and sitting directly in front of me. I finally got frustrated enough I tapped him on the shoulder and POLITELY (seriously) said "I would appreciate it if you would quit shouting to your friends on the other side of the theater,and talking to the screen. I am really hard of hearing and it makes it impossible for me to follow what is going on."
His response? "Bleep you,honky Mother......." . That was the point where I put him in a choke hold and choked his ass OUT. Didn't even know I was doing it until he was unconscious and had me looking at him and wondering if he was dead. I never did get to see the rest of the movie because I most definitely did not want be sitting right behind a corpse when the lights came on,and I also didn't want him regaining what little wits he had and shouting out for his homies to come help him because then I would have had to start shooting people in the head. I decided the only intelligent move to make was to leave before either happened.
I did check the paper the next couple of days and nobody was found dead in the movie theater,so I guess he managed to survive. I am still undecided if that was a good thing or not,though. I have no doubt that somebody will have to kill him sooner or later,and the only question is how much damage he will do before somebody turns his lights out for good.
I am thinking he was probably a little more cautious about running his mouth at old honkies after that,though.