Ballou HS Rocks the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Suspect in 9-Year-Old's Murder Found Dead in D.C. Jail
Morning Roundup: Black Friday Edition
Go Home Already: Make Room
Photo of the Day: November 27, 2009
The No Pants Metro Ride went ahead as scheduled on Saturday afternoon, and plenty of local news outlets (and DCist Flickr contributors) were on hand to document the outing, which also took place in ten other cities. Check out Gothamist's photos here.
About 75-100 participants, and at least as many press/onlookers/voyeurs, met at Dupont Circle before being split up into two groups, heading down to Metro and taking off in both directions. Once on the trains, the pants came off, with directions from organizers Elizabeth Ody and Richard Julian to act as nonchalant as possible.
The gender mix appeared to be about equal among the leg-barers, and there was a surprising range of ages. As for underwear fashion, for the guys, boxer briefs seemed to outnumber regular boxers, while the ladies displayed a good mix of styles. No thongs were spotted, and no arrests were reported.
One observer said that it was difficult to make out the reaction of "normal" passengers, many of whom seemed simply bemused by all the fuss rather than the sudden pantslessness. WTOP quoted "other Metro riders" who described the group's action as "indecent exposure" and questioned if it were some type of rebellion, and the Washington Post quoted Improv Everywhere founder Charlie Todd as saying local D.C. media were "jerky" for having alerted the authorities to the event. We swear we weren't trying to be jerks, Mr. Todd!
The closest thing we're running to a NSFW photo is after the jump, which the photographer cleverly titled "Suspicious Package". Heh.
Photos and contributions by JamesCalder
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Ugh. Camel tail.
I don't know what the route of this was but dollars to donuts these geeks didn't go south of L'Enfant on Green/Yellow or north of Union Station on the Red.
The event was obviously sponsored by a gym, leg-wax parlor or tanning salon.
Volunteer? No
Play a sport? No
Heck, what about marching for a cause?! No
Ride metro without pants? Hell yeah!
Attention starver's have found a home...how completely vain and self consumed can people get?
Charlie Todd should count his blessings. I've been trying for years to get the local press to pay attention when I take off my pants.
Yaaaaawwwwnn. Poorly dressed, self-absorbed people (and fairly unattractive, to boot) riding the Metro. How is this different from a normal day of commuting?
"Wow! Last time I did sumthin' this crazy was when I did kegstands at my highschool graduation field party! Haw! Let's go have mimosas."
the guy in purple is a friend of mine...never thought i'd see him in his underwear online..much less in person..
the best thing i've heard coming out of this has to be the unnamed metro employee yelling, "your undie pants better be pretty! keep it cute and clean!"
metro is neither cute nor clean, but its undie pants sure are pretty.
EWWWWW PEOPLE WHO ARE SOMEWHAT CLOSE TO SOMEWHAT NAKED GROSS!
You.
People.
Are.
Fucking.
Boring.
DO NOT WANT
I'm just gratified to see that the men of DC can come up with something even a smidgen more interesting than tighty-whiteys when it comes to undergarments.
Now if we could just get everyone to dress up in full clown suits and ride the same bus we might be as hip as San Francisco was 30 years ago.
DC1974, is that you?
Now if we could just get everyone to dress up in full clown suits and ride the same bus we might be as hip as San Francisco was 30 years ago.
Hey, c'mon, this is Washington. We're all bozos on this bus.
This is just embarassing. I was a huge fan of the original in NYC. I definitely got a huge grin thinking about what the innocent bystanders must be thinking. Same goes for the silent Ipod/Parties but can't we come up with anything original?
I refuse to believe that nobody in this town has the wit/sense of humor/creativity to come up with some zany pranks to call our own. This event was organized by the NYC group and it didn't even seem like a good copy. From what I read the ones in NY are kept pretty quiet from the media and the media that do show up are asked to hide their cameras during the prank. Also they coordinated it so that it would seem to an innocent bystander more and more pantsless people were getting on at each stop, completely unrelated to the other pantsless adding to the confusion. And to top it all off after everyone had entered the car a person "selling pants" came through. That is hilarious.
A bunch of people dropping their pants for numerous waiting cameras, well-informed metro officials, and a few tourists who all probably knew what was coming is lame. Isn't the whole point of these events to cause people to smile as they try to figure out what the hell is going on?
Somebody needs to come up with a good operation to call our own. Ideas?
This "No Pants Ride" would have been a hell of a lot cooler if someone would have bothered to invite some people who weren't ugly dudes in purple briefs with hairy legs. VOMITTTTTTTT!!!!!!
HCE, you prefer dudes with cleanly shaven legs?
Also, I'm pretty sure the onomatopoeic representation of someone vomiting isn't actually "VOMITTTTTTTTT!!!!!!" It's probably more like "HUHAGAAAAAAG ... " As in: shriveled misshapen packages tucked into lavendar boxer-briefs make me want to HUHAGAAAAAAG ...