No Pants in Atlanta, GA. Photo by April Hunt
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No Pants in Los Angeles, CA. Photo by Chad Nicholson
Toronto had a fun time, official report coming up soon on the site and from Cole.
We had about 300 show up in the bitter bitter cold, the police showed up, but were nice, and we took over a TTC train to make this work.
The Sun:http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/01/10/7982971.html
Unfortunately DC was stricken with weather problems so pants were taken off in an entryway to our subway system. Because things got clogged up DC police were called in.
No arrests were made and many riders had no problem, but there were some people that were told to put their pants back on, truncating the event a bit more than many would have liked. Some of the group scattered at that point, but most people did complete the mission without problems.
We still have some great shots and video and had a great time at the event and after-party.
We had a couple different groups in Portland, OR. Ours was a smaller group which was perfect– about 15 to the 2 car train. Everyone was so well behaved and stayed in character. It was 38 degrees out during our event, which sounds pretty toasty compared to some of the other city. Pictures are on our event page. Happy No-Pants Day! We need a report from the 2 other Portland groups!
Frickin’ freezing in Chicago today. Standing on the platforms, with snow collecting in my leg hair, was murder, but all-in-all today was great. I struggled to keep a straight face while explaining to a CTA employee that I had just forgotten my pants this morning. After a few stops of confusion he hopped off to alert the driver, “You know there’s half-naked people on your train?” Good times.
As Agent Teddy above said, the Toronto mission went well. It was -9 without windchill. But we had a great turnout of 300 people. Also the police basically baricaded the stations. They were waiting at every station in the area, and they came along for the ride with us on the subway.
Charlie I’ll be emailing you pictures tomorrow. Though the video may take a couple days.
And there’s a working link of the Toronto Sun article:
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/01/10/7982971.html
Here is my select set of photos from LA- http://www.flickr.com/photos/icopythat/sets/72157612415584610/
Here is my large set – http://flickr.com/photos/crnphoto/sets/72157612421162812/
enjoy!
Superb turnout in Phoenix! The trains were packed, and as Michelle noted above, a lot of the media heard about us through Facebook and Twitter.
Our light rail is pretty puny compared to NYC (one line, back and forth) so we just grabbed a few cars and coordinated through Twitter, sharing pics as we went.
Everyone was well behaved, and we hope we raised the awareness of the local IE group to get momentum for other local events.
Great set of AZ pictures building on Flickr: http://flickr.com/search/?q=nopantsaz&z=t&s=int
Had a lovely time in Phoenix, it was actually kinda warm even, so the no pants came in handy.
Another Phoenix article:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/traffic/lightrail/articles/2009/01/10/20090110lightrailpants0111.html
San Francisco article:
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2009/01/pantsless_bartmuni_riders_surp.php
Phoenix Arizona. It was awesome, we rode the lightrail which is less than a month old. Here are some of my photos on facebook.
http://tinyurl.com/85g2er
Search flickr / twitter w/ the tag “nopantsAZ”
KPHO 5 story http://www.kpho.com/entertainment/18454787/detail.html
AzCentral (newspaper) http://tinyurl.com/7j4kq4
ABC 15 story: http://tinyurl.com/95lzp2
Viennas Event ran perfectly smooth, no police, no complaints …
We were kind of shocked when at the meeting point all of a sudden there was a HUGE camera with a big microphone from some production company that wanted to film the whole event …. we had to discuss a little but in the end they promised to only make footage of the instructions we gave beforehand with that camera, later in the metro they used their small camcorder to record more material.
Hopefully, we will have some pictures up soon and there will be video material as well, we will send it your way charlie as soon as we have it, just not sure how fast we can manage :(
The group participating was rather small, about 21 pantless riders, but we had a blast and it was great seeing the reactions from people around us.
All in all it went a lot smoother than I had expected. Vienna tends to be …. a little prude … regarding such activities … :)
Boston went super-smoothly thanks to the well-organized agents. My car was fairly quiet, but there were definitely funny looks and a couple awkward moments of pantless people squeezing between pants people. Good times.
News article:
http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/homepage/x2094359504/Red-Line-riders-leave-their-pants-at-home
Another Recut of the videos From Chicago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px0A8Z_4LPA
SF pics here – http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2244994#/event.php?eid=41689368279
The San Francisco group was a blast. The highlight was when we all disrobed in front of our meeting place outside the Dalva bar a few blocks from the Mission BART station. We flooded the sidewalk just as a blind guy was coming through. Took less than a second to make room and he was highly amused when another agent explained what was going on. (I have some of his reaction on video.)
We proudly marched down 16th street, cheered a fire engine, and caused quite a ruckus once we were in the station. Slight buzzkill when the cops came through carrying some maybe-homeless, definitely-did something-bad, and bleeding from the head guy up the stairs as we headed to the platforms.
Got off at Embarcadero and got on a MUNI line towards Ocean View (The J?) in two groups, me being in the second. Extremely cramped with mostly pantsless folks and there was a near incident when a group of thugs came in and started giving us attitude about being in the freezing cold (mid 60s at least) and taking pictures. One of them may have been trying to touch the butt of somebody in the middle of the train and I think most of us were happy to finally get off in the Castro at Harvey Milk Plaza.
We walked right into the middle of a Palestine-Israel protest, with a huge crowd with drums and signs and Palestinian flags on our side, and a small group of counter protesters in front of the bar we wanted to end up at. Some hit the bar, some made the well-dressed Israel side look silly, and the rest of us dispersed, not all pantsed.
Cpp here, funny story.
I was out with PKLA, an LA-based parkour meetup group (we jump over stuff), and our fearless leader decided he wanted to go see the pant-less people on the subway, so we headed over there. Then i took off my pants. It was great fun, thanks everyone!
so thats why there were people yelling “PKLA” and “PK”, so our members didn’t get lost.
Even the ones who were wearing pants :p
By the way, if anyone is interested in pk, just look up the meetup group.
Video of the Phoenix ride on Dutch television???
http://spitsnieuws.nl/archives/video/2009/01/draag_geen_broek_in_de_metro.html
Portland went super smooth. There where two groups of us (never saw the other group) we started with around 35 and people kept joining us. Great time, kind of cold but we all had a good time. Many onlookers and many overheard phone conversations…
Memorable moments; Son no older than 9 takes mom’s phone and starts taking shots of the girls from very low angle. Mom gets mad because son is using up all her memory on her phone…
Man joins in the fun has no underwear on and begins to jump up and down…
Images:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/995156@N21/
No Pants 2k9 went off without a hitch for Plan B.
Parking at the Mall of America was a nightmare, as the day was relatively nice and everyone was out and about.
I walked into the Transit Station at the Mall and purchased my event ticket, and then placed a phone call to Scott. I spoke loudly into the phone for the benefit of the crowd around me and said “I don’t know if anyone else is here.”
Immediately, two people waved at me and said “We are here!”
The plan was to meet at 2PM and then board the Light Rail. We would then ride all the way into Downtown Minneapolis, and back. The pants would come off before the first stop.
After we boarded the train, the plan changed “disrobing” before the third stop in line. We would then disembark from the train, and run to the next car and reboard.
This went off without a hitch. As the stop was announced, everyone stood up and dropped their pants. We got some interesting looks from the people around us. As soon as the train stopped, we moved from one car to the next, and proceeded to ignore each other, and read our books, sight see, or talk with strangers.
Noone approached me during the event, but several people looked at me and the others as if we were nuts.
The best reaction I got was a woman in a parka as she boarded the train. She sat down, lowered the zipper on her parka and lowered her hood, before looking up and noticing us. She immediately put her hood back up and rezipped her jacket. She rode the rail the rest of the way like that.
After we got back to the Mall of America, we went into the Transit station, and put our pants back on. We then went into the mall and sat at Ruby Tuesday’s while we talked about the event, and planned for the 1 year Plan B Anniversary Event…
We had a lot of fun, I hit on the waitress of course, and she played along wonderfully.
All in all, we had a great time, and the Youtube video will be posted shortly.
Plan B Minnesota Mission Logs: http://planbmn.com/forum/index.php?f=3&t=260&view=viewtopic
Plan B’s Youtube Video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8E7ijyyieI