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Guerrilla Handbell Strikeforce from Improv Everywhere
No Pants! Subway Ride 2009
*update: here are Rob’s photos, too.*
What? You thought I was kidding? Our friend Wesley came up to New York for the weekend, and he took his pants off on the subway, too. (Fun aside: He owns withoutpants.com.) This year, they had somewhere from 1200 to 1500 other people show up to shock innocent subway riders with visions of seemingly normal commuters who had forgotten their pants. One woman nudged her husband to tell him that someone was dropping trou a few feet away, and then she caught my eye like, “Do you see this guy?! He just took his pants off and is standing there in his underwear! On the subway!”
“Oh. My. GOD!” I mouthed back at her, and we shook our heads at him for a second… and then I took my own pants off and winked at her. On many subway platforms, pantsless riders vastly outnumbered riders with pants. We all pretended that nothing unusual was going on. On opposite platforms people pointed, laughed and took photos. I think we made New York City a little happier on Saturday. Underwear is fun.
There were three official photographers, and these are their flickr sets. If you look closely, you can find me, Rob and Wesley in our underpants, dancing in the snow.
