Pants were removed by riders just prior to their assigned stops, with all kinds of ridiculousness breaking loose, as one participant – heavily engaged in conversation with a client who happened to be on the same tram, de-robed to the shocked and amused response of said client. “Are you are part time stripper?” he exclaimed; however the response was a simple smirk and ‘good bye’, as our pant-less hero exited through the tram doors.

The time for me to remove my pants neared and I was surprisingly a little nervous – what if it all went wrong? But off came the pants and I gracefully (well, as gracefully as someone like me can…) departed at Forestville. We waited for our next tram and our little group of three swapped stories of our experience thus far – with plenty of laughs.
Our next tram neared and we separated for the best effect. As we boarded, we saw fellow participants and the faces of curious onlookers. The journey continued towards Glenelg and as it did, one onlooker was particularly intrigued, and became frustrated – in a friendly way – when after asking a number of participants what was going on – to no avail. He suggested that perhaps we were too ‘ashamed’ of what we were doing to tell the truth, and then asked if he should take his pants of too – but for some reason he never actually did! Pulling onto jetty road, a good-natured tram conductor boarded and had a laugh, remembering no pants tram ride events from years passed that she herself has been apart of.

When departing at Glenelg, 2015’s event was immediately declared a success, with winners of a couple of fun awards selected – but it wasn’t over yet – we still had a return journey to tackle. An hour later we reconvened and elected two members of our party to collect pants on the way back – as part of the so-called ‘pants for peace’ initiative. This too was a great success, with laughs all round.

At Victoria Square, everyone went his or her separate ways, after a great day, looking forward to next year’s event!

Read about our No Pants Tram Rides in previous years.

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Its time again for the annual No Pants Tram Ride in Adelaide (this will be our 7th year in a row).

Join in and invite your friends at the Facebook event!

The basic idea is to ride the tram without pants and pretend that it is the most normal thing to do. When people see one person doing this they can easily pass them off as a crazy, but when more and more people enter the tram without pants, apparently unknown to each other, the reactions are just priceless.

This event is always great fun and with the hot weather its often more comfortable than wearing pants anyway.

If you’re interested in attending but unsure if you want to ride the tram without pants then we recommend boxers – they’re basically like shorts anyway.

If you’re a little more adventurous then go for briefs.

Please avoid revealing underwear as we’d like to keep this event fun and safe for participants and other tram riders.

Try and wear something that will create a good contrast between your upper and lower half, such as;

• Suit
• Work clothes
• Motorbike jacket

There will be prizes for;

• Best jocks and socks combo
• Best upper half/lower half contrast

PLEASE NOTE: You should arrive at the meeting point with your pants ON. The de-pantsing happens during the event ;).

We will be meeting at Victoria Square opposite the tram stop at 12 midday.

Things to bring;

• Metro card, multi trip or money for tram ticket
• Bag or backpack to carry your pants after you take them off as well as your belongings as you won’t have pant pockets to put them in for most of the trip

You can be a part of the global activity by tweeting with the official hashtag #NPSR and @ImprovEvery when talking about Improv Everywhere

More about the event including videos and photos from previous years: http://adelaideflashmob.com/no-pants/

Join in and invite your friends at the Facebook event!

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The No Pants Subway Ride is an annual global event started by Improv Everywhere in New York in 2002. http://improveverywhere.com/

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This is an annual event, invented by Improv Everywhere, and has been running for 12 years. This year events were organised in over 50 cities including 4 in Australia.

We’ll add more photos, videos and reports to this page as the info comes in.

Photos

• Main album
• Lisa’s Photos

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Date: January 13th 2013 (Sunday)

Time: Meeting at 1:30pm

Where: Victoria Square, next to the tram stop

Join our Facebook Event & Invite your friends!

Check out all the details here: http://adelaideflashmob.com/no-pants/

Attribution: The No Pants Subway Ride is an annual global event started by Improv Everywhere in New York in 2002.

Media

Thanks to Dave Walsh for writing about this event over at Weekend Notes.

If you have a blog or website or contribute to a local forum or other online community it would be great if you could mention our event to help is get exposed to more potential participants.

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Had I realised the logistics of organising a flashmob in an airport to coincide with someone’s arrival would be so tricky, I may never have agreed to do it. The flight had originally been planned for the evening but then we found out a week before that it was going to be smack bam in the middle of the day, making it difficult for some people, with work, school and uni commitments, to attend. The day of the event I felt like a spy executing a covert operation. I was in secret contact with a member of the family who was feeding me updates about the locations of our arriving home soldier and waiting wife. We learned that 1:15… then 1:20 would be the time of arrival, but how long would they be in customs? I didn’t want to miss him so I had everyone in place at 1:15. What followed was an excruciating 45 minutes wait but finally, the waiting family’s faces lit up and we knew he had arrived. I gave the signal, started the music and we quickly assembled… but the music was too soft… I quickly readjusted and away we went.

Check out the videos below for the final product. A big thanks to Emma & Stephanie from The Dance Pad, the Adelaide Airport staff, Heidi for the music, Wendy and Gail for filming and, of course, all of our great mobbers for coming out to be a part of this event.

If you want to get involved in our future events, join us on Facebook or join our Mailing List (Song & Dance Flashmob Only List Here).

(who’s the guy in blue who seems to have forgotten his moves?)

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