Sub-Mayhem

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Sub-mayhem is a term coined in the early 1990's by avant garde philosopher James Smith. It is used for describing certain deviant acts aimed at minor social disruption. Acts of Sub-mayhem are generally not of illegal nature and are usually low profile, although some groups have taken it a little further. Many participants in Sub-mayhem are nothing more than young teenagers going about with the sole purpose of general mischief. Some of the most targeted locations are nothing more than local supermarkets.

Some examples of Sub-mayhem are:

Switching items around in stores as to confuse customers.
Stealing signs/ornaments from shops/houses/ect.
Writing graffiti on anything that will be seen by the public.
Knocking over trash cans.
Stealing people's mail (One of the few illegal acts).

Sub-Mayhem deals mainly in petty vandalism aimed at confusing and irritating the public and means no serious harm to the public at large. It is distinct from culture jamming insofar as it generally lacks idealistic motives, although the results are often of a comparable type.

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