No Pants in Atlanta, GA. Photo by April Hunt
If you participated in one of the 24 regional No Pants Subway Rides today across the world, leave us an agent report in the comments letting us know how it went. Post links to any photos and videos from your town’s event as well. Let us know how many people participated and what the temperature was.
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No Pants in Los Angeles, CA. Photo by Chad Nicholson
We’re working on the report and the video as we speak. We had a blast in Amsterdam, even though it was -4 c (25 f) and the central heating of the subway system did not function properly… Expect our material soon!
Hope everyone around the world had fun today!
Cheers,
~AltijdAndries (Shoqs – The Netherlands)
So much fun in Chicago! :) Lots of snow today…brrr! Our train is outdoors, too. :)
The Gobi Lumberjacks in Atlanta actually managed to pull this off. We will be posting stories and experiences and photos at this discussion on the Urban Prankster Network site:
http://improveverywhere.ning.com/group/atlanta/forum/topics/no-pants-2k9-a-great-success
I didn’t hear many comments, just got some strange looks. But the best and funniest thing I overheard someone say, after discovering pantless people in both of the trains they could see was, “I dunno… maybe it’s a game show and they’re all trying to win money.”
Phoenix had about 100 agents on our new light rail (less than a month old). We also had extensive press and TV coverage, but we don’t know how muchof it will get published or broadcast. The cars were packed even without us.
There were a number of “Oh my God” and similar comments when we took off our pants, but hardly any reaction after that, at least in my part of the car.
On the return trip, the cars weren’t nearly as full, but no one seemedto notice.
News article on the Atlanta, Georgia ride:
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2009/01/10/marta_no_pants.html
Ahh! That’s me reading Albert Camus! Score. Today was such a fun day. I got to meet a lot of really friendly people and bring excitement into peoples lives!
DC was unfortunately… much shorter than last year.
due to at least one sour apple on one train… the police told the group I was in to put our pants on after only two stops.
Slowly others were also required to put theirs on as well.
Last year went much better… its a shame that someone could not see the humor and ruined it for everyone :-\
News article for Phoenix, AZ:
http://www.kpho.com/news/18454686/detail.html
@Tina,
What happened? A passenger complained?
Article about the Lisbon ride, in Portuguese.
http://jn.sapo.pt/PaginaInicial/Interior.aspx?content_id=1070056
Apparently so.
The cops really did not seem to mind the sight (last year they were quite amused). However apparently in this area… it only takes one person/complaint to ruin it.
http://flickr.com/photos/torquedaperture/3186575008/?processed=1&cb=1231636844317
group member explaining it to everyone that was left.
Boston was well organized and the T staff were supportive. I was impressed by the number of guys wearing suit and ties. One even had pinstripe underpants to boot. My personal favorite were some paisley boxers.
The pantless riders outnumbered the pants-wearing photographers. People armed with one or more cameras were out in force and took many, many pictures.
The pantless riders also outnumbered the pants-wearing passengers, so I didn’t get to see that many reactions in Red line car #3.
One older gentleman sitting next to me asked why people weren’t wearing pants, then commented he thought it was a protest.
I felt sorry for the groups assigned to get out at Charles Street which is an outside elevated platform. It was only 20F degrees out. When they got back on at the next train some of their legs were red. Like most everyone else they continued to act nonchalant while secretly having a grand old time.
a little chilly here in Denver – one issue with the Wackenhut guard who told us that we would be cited for indecent exposure because the trains and the stations are private property – we rode anyway
Boston went swimmingly. 100+ participants on the Red Line then on to a bar in Cambridge. http://www.bostonsos.org/nopants2k9recap and more photos and reactions at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35020840440#/event.php?eid=53848003176 and http://www.flickr.com/groups/650170@N24/
Much more will go up tomorrow
Washington DC:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/torquedaperture/sets/72157612415467356/
the very few photos I took are there.
Here is a quick video from today’s festivites in Chicago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wUNiESebgw
This was so much fun.. after it was over, we got a group of like 15 people to go “pants shopping” in American Eagle… it was so funny! The staff was laughing at us.. oh man..
A video from local TV in Salt Lake City, Utah:
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=5284719
Anyone who has high resolution video footage they can send us from any of the regional events, please email us.
http://www.improveverywhere.com/contact/
We will make a video montage of all the cities if we get enough footage.
I joined the GuerriLA (and BKLA?) for the Los Angeles Mission. Went really great. No police problems whatsoever. At least, that I saw; I and a friend broke of from the party heading back so I may have missed everything that happened on the train back. We should have planned to eat somewhere in Hollywood before returning. :( My friend and I wore pants on the return trip. We had a very fun time walking around Hollywood without pants.