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No Pants Subway Ride 2006

  • 22 January 2006 - New York City, NY - Participants in the 5th annual No Pants Subway Ride travel on the #6 line without pants in New York City, USA, 22 January 2006. The artists and pranksters of the Improv' Everywhere group organised the ride, which gathered over 150 participants, in order to surprise and amuse other passengers and themselves. The police issued summons and handcuffed several participants despite the fact that riding the New York subway without pants is legal. Photo Credit: David Brabyn.
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  • 22 January 2006 - New York City, NY - Participants in the 5th annual No Pants Subway Ride travel on the #6 line without pants in New York City, USA, 22 January 2006. The artists and pranksters of the Improv' Everywhere group organised the ride, which gathered over 150 participants, in order to surprise and amuse other passengers and themselves. The police issued summons and handcuffed several participants. Photo Credit: David Brabyn.
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  • 22 January 2006 - New York City, NY - Participants in the 5th annual No Pants Subway Ride travel on the #6 line without pants in New York City, USA, 22 January 2006. The artists and pranksters of the Improv' Everywhere group organised the ride, which gathered over 150 participants, in order to surprise and amuse other passengers and themselves. The police issued summons and handcuffed several participants. Photo Credit: David Brabyn.
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  • 22 January 2006 - New York City, NY - Participants in the 5th annual No Pants Subway Ride travel on the #6 line without pants in New York City, USA, 22 January 2006. The artists and pranksters of the Improv' Everywhere group organised the ride, which gathered over 150 participants, in order to surprise and amuse other passengers and themselves. The police issued summons and handcuffed several participants despite the fact that riding the New York subway without pants is legal. Photo Credit: David Brabyn.
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  • 22 January 2006 - New York City, NY - Participants in the 5th annual No Pants Subway Ride travel on the #6 line without pants in New York City, USA, 22 January 2006. The artists and pranksters of the Improv' Everywhere group organised the ride, which gathered over 150 participants, in order to surprise and amuse other passengers and themselves. The police issued summons and handcuffed several participants. Photo Credit: David Brabyn.
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  • 22 January 2006 - New York City, NY - A participant in the 5th annual No Pants Subway Ride stands without pants by the train door on the #6 line in New York City, USA, 22 January 2006. The artists and pranksters of the Improv' Everywhere group organised the ride, which gathered over 150 participants, in order to surprise and amuse other passengers and themselves. The police issued summons and handcuffed several participants. Photo Credit: David Brabyn.
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  • 22 January 2006 - New York City, NY - A police officer call for backup after seeing participants in the 5th annual No Pants Subway Ride traveling the #6 line without pants in New York City, USA, 22 January 2006. The artists and pranksters of the Improv' Everywhere group organised the ride, which gathered over 150 participants, in order to surprise and amuse other passengers and themselves. The police issued summons and handcuffed several participants. Photo Credit: David Brabyn.
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  • A participant in the 5th annual No Pants Subway Ride stands under police guard and without pants on the platform of the #6 line train in New York City, USA, 22 January 2006. The artists and pranksters of the Improv' Everywhere group organised the ride, which gathered over 150 participants, in order to surprise and amuse other passengers and themselves. The police issued summons and detained several participants.
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  • 22 January 2006 - New York City, NY - Participants in the 5th annual No Pants Subway Ride read as they wait under police custody on the subway platform after traveling on the #6 line without pants in New York City, USA, 22 January 2006. The artists and pranksters of the Improv' Everywhere group organised the ride, which gathered over 150 participants, in order to surprise and amuse other passengers and themselves. The police issued summons and handcuffed several participants. Photo Credit: David Brabyn.
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  • 22 January 2006 - New York City, NY - Subway passengers wearing shorts wait for a train as a police officer looks on shortly after several participants in the 5th annual No Pants Subway Ride were arrested on the same platform for traveling on the #6 line without pants on in New York City, USA, 22 January 2006. The artists and pranksters of the Improv' Everywhere group organised the ride, which gathered over 150 participants, in order to surprise and amuse other passengers and themselves. The police issued summons and handcuffed several participants. Photo Credit: David Brabyn.
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"From the waist up, they looked like perfectly normal commuters. That wasn't good enough for police.

8 pranksters who dropped their pants and showed their underwear on the subway on Sunday were taken into custody and issued summonses for disorderly conduct. All were ultimately released, said Improv Everywhere, the group that organized the stunt.

The group said more than 160 riders participated in the fifth annual No Pants Subway Ride before police halted their...
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