No Pants’ on MARTA photos
Board a train, remove your pants, and ignore the giggling.
MARTA riders this weekend were treated to a surprise: Pants-less straphangers.
On Saturday, more than 35 participants responded to an email that urged them to meet at downtown’s Five Points station, board a northbound train, and remove their pants. The group hopped off at stops, went about their business, and reboarded a following train. Upon arriving at the Lindbergh station two hours later, the bare-legged brigade took the train back downtown. MARTA Police, though baffled, didn’t interrupt the trouser-less troupe.
Alfredo Aponte is a product industrial designer who helped organize the “flash mob” event. (He’s also one of the brains behind Atlanta Pecha Kucha.) Aponte says Saturday’s experiment — which was Atlanta’s first foray into “No Pants Day” — was inspired by similar gatherings in New York City. (It even made a few fanboys out of <a title=”FARK | “Atlanta transit riders celebrate ‘No Pants Day 2K9’ (with safe for work pantless in public pics)” (Comments)” href=”http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=4135989” target=”_blank” target=”_self”>message board denizens.)
To view photos of the event, visit the Sideshow.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)