Subway riders around the world got an eyeful when their fellow transit users stripped down to their underwear on Sunday for the annual No Pants Subway Ride.
The No Pants Subway Ride is an annual event, in which people ride in the subway without wearing any pants. The first No Pants Subway was introduced in 2002 when seven people did not wear pants and travelled in the subways. During the event the participants were arrested for “disorderly conduct,” but later the charges were dismissed.
Jesse Good is the one of the Event organizers said that “they want to give people of New York a reason to look up from their papers, from their cell phones, and experience something new, which is a bit different than their average run-of-the-mill stuff.”
Trouser less subway rides were scheduled to take place this year in multiples of cities around the globe, events are being organized in cities like Boston; Berlin; Prague; and Warsaw, Poland, organizers said. Philadelphia’s No Pant Subway was sponsored by a laundry delivery service, they asked the participants to show up with extra pants or other clothing to donate to the charity.
We tell participants to get on metros and ask them to act as they normally would and are given an assigned point to take off their pants. They are asked to keep a straight face and respond matter-of-factly to anyone who asks them if they are cold.
Moments before entering the Manhattan station, Peter Saez said that he was participating third time in the No Pant Subway event.
People who do not understand that what we are actually doing, will give a strange look at us, like as if we are doing something bad or wrong,” Saez said. “But it is just for fun, It is a fun trip, that’s all.”
Toni Carter planned on stripping down to her tight boxers with little polka-dots.
“Not very often do I have an opportunity with a group of people to take my pants off and show it whatever I got to show,” Carter said. “I am entertaining New York City. This is my form of art.”
Wei Wei is a student from China who recently moved to New York, was curious about the event, but she was on the fence about whether she was going to go through with taking off her pants. But Angela Bancilhon, a tourist from Australia did not show any hesitation, who was with her husband and two young Children along for the ride.
“It is fun. Why the hell not?” Angela Bancilhon said. “We are in New York City. Why, would not you?”
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