The Mob Rules

We're part of the biggest group of losers in London," said a 21-year-old office administrator sitting in the Rising Sun pub on Tottenham Court Road in London. At precisely 6:27 p.m., after picking up a sheet of instructions, he and his friend left the bar, and made their way to the Sofas-UK showroom around the corner. At 6:30 p.m. Derrick Robinson, the manager of Sofas-UK, looked out the window of another pub and saw 200 people gathered outside his locked...