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The 8th Annual No Pants Subway Ride

by lefty_liberated | January 9, 2009 at 07:27 am

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Not doing anything on Saturday? Well have no fear you can ride the subway semi-nude with friends and complete strangers. That's right ladies and gentleman, Saturday Januaray 10, it's the 8th annual No Pants Subway Ride brought to you by Improv Everywhere.

The international event requires participants to partially disrobe at a designated subway platform and put away their clothes. They then ride the subway and act non-chalant and act as if they're confused when other's inquire about why they're almost naked. The participants will strategically exit and enter at subway stops to "expose" themselves to an entirely new audience. Most events are followed by an after party where people without pants can likely expect at least one round of free drinks.

The following cities will participate:

Adelaide, Australia
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Atlanta, Georgia
Boston, Massachusetts
Calgary, Canada
Chicago, Illinois
Denver, Colorado
Hamburg, Germany
Lisbon, Portugal
Los Angeles, California
Montreal, Canada
New York, New York
Phoenix, Arizona
Portland, Oregon
Salt Lake City, Utah
San Francisco, California
Seattle, Washington
Seoul, Korea
Sydney, Australia
Toronto, Canada
Twin Cities, Minnesota
Vienna, Austria
Warsaw, Poland
Washington, DC

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Accourding the website the group was founded in 2001 and has completed 80 acts of humurous civil disobedience.

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Fripouille

at 07:57 on January 9th, 2009

I am most upset. Lefty, you could at least have put this up in time for me to to be able to book a plane ticket!!!!!

Cool idea!!!

Jordan Yerman

at 08:34 on January 9th, 2009

That's just... just... awesome. Improv Everywhere does some great stuff- their Frozen Grand Central even got applause from the NYPD, who are pretty hard to impress.

lefty_liberated

at 09:13 on January 9th, 2009

I was at the join the impact meeting the other night and someone mentioned frozen grand centeral, but i didn't know what they were talking about.now i do! thanks.t's a neat artful concept that gets attention but isn't confrontational. in nyc that is a bonus, i guess. Join the Impact couldn't get permits for their last protest so it didn't happen. anyway its still good for people to be exhibiting that they can organize! this has the distinct advantage of being both powerful and entertaining.