Travellers cast off inhibitions on no pants subway ride day
What started off as a comedy prank in New York in 2002 has blossomed to become a regular event on the global calendar
Subway riders around the world might have noticed something missing when their fellow transit users went trouserless on Sunday for the annual no pants subway ride.
Participants were told to get on trains and act as they normally would and were given an assigned point to take off their pants. They are asked to keep a straight face and respond matter-of-factly to anyone who asks them if they’re cold.
The event, organised by the Improv Everywhere comedy collective, started in 2002 in New York with just seven participants.
“We want to give New Yorkers a reason to look up from their papers, from their phones, and experience something that’s a little different than their average run-of-the-mill stuff,” said Jesse Good, one of the event’s organisers.
Pants-less subway rides took place this year in dozens of cities around the world, including in London, Boston; Berlin; Prague; and Warsaw, organisers said. Philadelphia’s version was sponsored by a laundry delivery service, which asked participants to show up with extra pants or other clothing to donate to charity.
Moments before entering a Manhattan station, Peter Saez said it was his third time going pant-less. “People who don’t understand what we’re doing will look at us like we’re doing something bad or wrong,” Saez said. “It’s just for fun. It’s a fun trip, that’s all.”
Toni Carter planned on stripping down to her tight boxers with little polka-dots. “Not very often do I have an opportunity with a group of people to take my pants off and show it whatever I got to show,” Carter said. “I’m entertaining New York City. This is my form of art.”
Wei Wei, a student from China who just moved to New York, was curious about the event but was on the fence about whether she was going to go through with taking off her pants. But there was no hesitation for Angela Bancilhon, a tourist from Australia who had her husband and two young sons along for the ride. “It’s fun. Why the hell not?” Bancilhon said. “We’re in NYC. Why wouldn’t you?”
Well – What say you ? I personally can’t see it working here
One good thing is they are having fun in the limits only ........ ......... .......... .............
When people follow the improper values under the name of "just for fun" and "live and let others live" such farce will keep appearing.
that's great Brit!
inform Rizks as well - to prepare his lungi!
zafirah: Its a date... I've already ordered some special glow in the dark boxers for when we go inside tunnels :O)
It would be much better if we remove the Gap ........ between fellow humans ........ ..... ........
Removing your own pants is an art ......... ..... !! ........ Wonderful society ......... ........ amazing world ......... !! .....
I'm in Brit!
Let me know when.... Maybe on the opening of Metro here... would be more fun... :)
Damn it.. Rizks and I had already planned for the new metro and were going to ask you and zafirah to join us
Well, it is a "western" form of "fun". Should this prank travel to the eastern countries especially from the part where I come from, the males would get punched at several places with their faces reserved for the flat soles of ladies' shoes to do the final job. For females to go pant-less in public in eastern countries, it is simply out of the question.
The easterners are bound by laws of culture, tradition, morals and morality. Nudity in any form in public is totally unacceptable. If any such case is found, the person lands up in the lunatic asylum.
It is as simple as that!