Yet another reason to bring back the Rochester Subway… We’re missing out on No Pants Day! Hundreds of New Yorkers stripped down to their skivvies on Sunday for the ninth annual No Pants Subway Ride. The event, organized by a Guerilla group called Improv Everywhere, has grown from 7 or 8 people riding the NY Subway in 2002 to over 3,000 people taking part in 44 cities and 16 countries around the world.
Based in New York City, Improv Everywhere 
Other cities with pantless transit riders this weekend included Buffalo, Toronto, Pittsburg, Chicago, Los Angeles, Honolulu, London, Madrid, Stockholm, Sydney, and Tokyo. So why wasn’t Rochester on the list? We may not have a subway but we’ve got buses. Yesterday’s high temp… 27°F. Excuses, excuses.
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Conceived in Manhattan August 2001, before September 11 that year, in performing missions such as Frozen Grand Central, Improv Everywhere created refreshing street theatre and in turn highlighted Bush administration security theatre. Code Orange, anyone? How is it criminal to stand motionless for five minutes in a high-profile transportation hub, a target such as Grand Central Station? After all, a station is meant and designed for people to wait. Is synchrony criminal? Not an act of aggression nor much of an act in any manner, motionlessness hurts nobody, but challenges suspicious and absurd authority to try prosecuting humor and unusual patterns. With police cameras mushrooming everywhere, phenomena like Improv Everywhere and Critical Mass push the boundary so we the ordinary unusual can just be ourselves and feel free from fear of arrest.