the Daily Mail wrote:



Tube is just pants! Commuters around the world leave their outerwear at home for the 11th annual No Trousers day

By Emma Reynolds

Last updated at 4:13 PM on 9th January 2012


At first glance it appears to be a normal rush-hour on the Tube, with commuters listening to their ipods and reading books.





But there is one major difference: they seem to have forgotten their trousers.

The semi-naked crowds were taking part in an international event run by practical joke group Improv Everywhere.



But the flash mobs in Madrid had more difficulty in getting some exposure for their action when the police stopped them from entering their planned starting station.




Improv Everywhere invited people to take part through Facebook, with more than 16,000 people from around the world registering to take part.

Those involved were instructed to act as they would normally on the Underground, by chatting to each other, listening to music or reading.



The idea is to entertain and surprise bystanders, and to lighten the dreariness of the daily commute by making people laugh.

Not everyone saw the funny side, however.

Alicia Lopez - a passenger in Mexico City, where around 700 people took part - said: 'I consider people without pants, without skirts, to be semi-naked. I don't like it.

'I don't know their demands. I don't know what they are seeking because they're protesting but I think there are ways to do it.'

Organiser Dan Becherano said the group wanted to have fun, but also to see what sort of reaction they would provoke.

'The purpose is to have fun and entertain people,' he explained. 'The purpose of flash mobs is to show how we can get together without knowing each other and work as teams without really having seen each other ahead of time.

'The most important thing will be the victims - the reaction of people who aren't involved.'

I can imagine the face of regular commuters when confronted to such sight, holy cow !

Once in 1984 in the midst of the summer, a black lady just stripped and walked naked down Hudson St in New York, a block from the WTC. To others she looked like an E.T.

Here all bus stops are often covered with big ads for lingerie. Once I got to take the bus and was faced with a life size pic of a girl in luxury lingerie - just a bra and panties - for a brand called "Black Magic".

Such advertisements are everywhere today.

And all that fuss is funny, looks like most people have never seen scenes of the grand spring break down in Florida !



Until recent years, I believed hard like wood that a spring break on a Florida was a suspension failure on that Renault "Florida" convertible, ha ha.