No Pants 2K9
By Sam Chimes
The internet is the breeding ground for many brilliant things. Few, however, are better than the Annual No Pants! Subway Ride.
It is what it says on the tin: you ride the subway with your below the waist outer layer removed. Simple. But for what reason? Because it adds value to existence, enriches the tapestry that is you and makes for a brilliant anecdote to tell your stay at home mates who think the internet is Facebook and YouTube videos of people playing Guitar Hero.
Organised by Improv Everywhere, the details of the 8th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride were contained in this post, and if you click through you can follow the build up, execution and read the Official Mission Report. The group utilised a Facebook event page to entice participants (should I have done a weak pun on participants – let us know) along with a YouTube channel for documentation purposes.
I find it uplifting that in New York there are over 1,200 people willing to get involved with such frivolity. Globally there were over 2,500 pant free carriage riders in 22 cities – Next year… just maybe…
