Jan 9, 2009 11:44 am US/Eastern
'No Pants Ride' Saturday On The Red Line
BOSTON (WBZ) ―
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Participants of Improv Everywhere's Annual No Pants! Subway Ride are detained by police on the 59th St. uptown 6 train platform in Manhattan in January 2006.
AP
If you're on the Red Line Saturday afternoon, you might see something unusual on the train - dozens of passengers without pants.
The New York-based group
Improv Everywhere is encouraging people to sign up for
the stunt in Boston and several other cities January 10.
The local event kicks off at 3 p.m. at the
Alewife station on the T.
The group says there are only two basic requirements for participation.
You "must be willing to take your pants off on a subway" and be "able to keep a straight face" while doing it.
They request participants don't wear a thong or anything else that might offend passengers.
The Boston Society of Spontaneity is organizing this year's local event.
Here are some of their suggestions for participating:
- Wear normal clothes for the weather- gloves/mittens, hat, scarf, jacket, etc
- Do not wear stockings (pantyhose for women is fine, but stockings and "long john" underwear are cheating!)
- Wear relatively modest underwear (no thongs!) and preferably an extra pair of underwear underneath! IT IS COLD and an extra pair will not only help keep you warm but diminish the risk of "wardrobe malfunctions" (and the subsequent trip to the police station).
- From past rides I'd recommend avoiding evening coats and trench coats as you end up looking more like a flasher or a prostitute than a crazy person who forgot their pants!
Hundreds of people signed up for last year's inaugural event in Boston, which went off without any major problems.
But one blogger who took part said it was
"the worst kept secret in town."
"During the same event last year, the participants were well-behaved and no problems were reported," MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo told WBZ.
"There is no reason to believe that things will be different this time around."
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