Hundreds Take to London Tube for Trouserless Fun

Hundreds of Londoners took to the underground network on Sunday wearing no trousers in a prank aimed at bringing a smile to the faces of fellow passengers.

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SHOTLIST: LONDON, JANUARY 13, 2013, SOURCE: AFPTV - VAR people on Underground without trousers - Girl on underground SOUNDBITE 1 Laura Robinson, Event Organiser (English, 12 sec): "Basically we got a group of people that we set up beforehand on Facebook as well as some flashmob sites, about 300 today, which is a good turnout, and we got together and we went on the tubes in London and we took off our trousers." - People on Underground without trousers - Underwear on a stick - VAR people on Underground without trousers - Fellow passengers - Trouserless passengers SOUNDBITE 2 Laura Robinson, Event Organiser (English, 11 sec): "There isn't really a reason, I mean we do it just for the heck of it, just to see people's expressions. We like to put people in a happy mood and put smiles on their faces. That's more or less why we do it." - People on tube platform SOUNDBITE 3 Rammi Chiratheep, Event Organiser (English, 11 sec): "There is a group called Improv Everywhere in New York who started this in 2002, I think and it came to the UK in 2010, so this has been going on for 4 years now." - Fellow passenger taking pictures - Trouserless people walking through Underground ------------------------------------------ NO AFP TEXT STORY