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4,000 flash mob dancers whip out Apple iPods, startle commuters at Victoria station
Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 11:32 AM EST

"More than 4,000 clubbers danced through the rush hour at Victoria station in Britain's biggest flash mob stunt," Tim Stewart reports for The Evening Standard.

"Revellers responded to e-bulletins urging them to 'dance like you've never danced before' at 6.53pm," Stewart reports.

Stewart reports, "There were knowing looks and giggles among the casually dressed crowd that gathered from 6.30pm, wearing earphones."

"A deafening 10-second countdown startled station staff and commuters before the concourse erupted in whoops and cheers. MP3 players and iPods emerged and the crowd danced wildly to their soundtracks in silence - for two hours," Stewart reports. "Last night's flash mob ended when four vanloads of police dispersed the dancers. The event was staged by clubbing website mobileclubbing.com. Invitation emails and texts went out a week in advance."

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Big Bob" for the heads up.]

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Apr 05, 07 - 10:38 am Comment from: Timbo

Love it! Livin' life! This made me smile.

Apr 05, 07 - 10:38 am Comment from: eMax

I dont see any ZUNES.. do you? perhaps there should be a new where's waldo book, where everyone has an ipod and the waldo you are looking for has a zune.

Apr 05, 07 - 10:38 am Comment from: DLMeyer

Amusing!

DLMeyer - the Voice of G.L.Horton's Stage Page pod-cast

Apr 05, 07 - 10:41 am Comment from: R

Then, tear-gassed and tired, the dancers went home to collect their welfare checks...

Apr 05, 07 - 10:42 am Comment from: Mark

In the States they would be all arrested for terrorism or posing a threat to teh national security and sent to Guantanamo.

Apr 05, 07 - 10:42 am Comment from: stormy

I am shocked there weren't any Zunes....oh wait only 16 have been sold!

Apr 05, 07 - 10:44 am Comment from: Timbo

@R: Thanks for the laugh!

Apr 05, 07 - 10:45 am Comment from: aka Christian

What's great is you can open iTunes, pick your own tune, and the crowd dances along. Unless it's, like, Beethoven. Or Low. Or Edith Piaf. Well, you get the picture.

Apr 05, 07 - 10:48 am Comment from: Bandit Bill

The video is lame, they look like idiots. I was hoping they would look cool.

Apr 05, 07 - 10:50 am Comment from: DLMeyer

I guess I should point out that:
- they call that dancing?
- they call that video?

Yes, that was the rather constrained confines of Victoria Station. Nice to see it again, what I could. But any of those folk who can be recognized will have some 'splainin to do if their teen-aged kids get to see that. And it would have been nice if one of the blokes with a REAL video camera had cared to share. I saw a couple recording the event!

Apr 05, 07 - 10:51 am Comment from: Buster

I thought it was way cool. Imagine 4000 young people dancing and gyrating and having a good time and.... all the time they are doing it quietly!!!

Wish my two teenageers at home were like that.

Apr 05, 07 - 10:52 am Comment from: MacTube

This looks like a lot of fun. Cool. But, why does everyone like YouTube? The video quality SUCKS always.

Apr 05, 07 - 10:56 am Comment from: Alison

They do look like idiots. I don't think it's cool disrupt public transportation like that. And Mark you are a nimrod. You don't understand the terrorism threat around you.

Apr 05, 07 - 11:06 am Comment from: mudflapper

In Chicago, they would've been arrested under the anti-rave ordinance. Apparently, you can't dance anywhere in the city now if the location isn't licensed for it.

Apr 05, 07 - 11:06 am Comment from: Tergenev

@Alison,
Wow, you're paranoid and shrill, and you seem to want to take all the fun out of life.

Wait . . . Dick Cheney, is that you?

Apr 05, 07 - 11:10 am Comment from: hotinplaya

How things have changed

when I was their age, we had mass streakings thru malls,

Apr 05, 07 - 11:10 am Comment from: G-ZUS

Alison, the terrorist threat is entirely made up by the Bush administration to scare idiots like you.

Apr 05, 07 - 11:12 am Comment from: anthony007

I wonder if the two zune owners were able to find each other and squirt some poo to each other?

Apr 05, 07 - 11:12 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

P*L*U*R

Apr 05, 07 - 11:13 am Comment from: Andy C.

Man I can't wait until YouTube boosts their video quality.

Apr 05, 07 - 11:31 am Comment from: pimple

"4000 dumb asses with no lives gather in one place to act like retards" would have been a more suitable headline.

Apr 05, 07 - 11:31 am Comment from: Jumbo

@ Chrissyone:
To quote the Gieco neanderthal "WHAT"????

@ Anthony007:
That is both sick and disgusting (I wish I had posted it first). Don't those 2 b*stards have enough problems without you picking on them?? Picking on Zune owners is like clubbing baby seals!
I can't see the video because I'm @ work and don't have rights to view them. Yes, I work in a winblows shop. We all have crosses to bear.

Apr 05, 07 - 11:35 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Jumbo

Embrace the Google:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLUR

Apr 05, 07 - 11:41 am Comment from: chennai

I'm an American in Chennai, Indian - bored out of my skull. How do I set one of these up?

Apr 05, 07 - 11:49 am Comment from: Timbo

I think pimple needs a hug.
I just wish I had the extra time it takes to do something as pointless as groove out in a train station.
Then again, my family likes to eat, so it's off to work I go.

Apr 05, 07 - 11:58 am Comment from: Hippie

DLMeyer" But any of those folk who can be recognized will have some 'splainin to do if their teen-aged kids get to see that.

They'll use the same excuses their grandmothers give when Beatles mob scenes show up on telly.

Apr 05, 07 - 12:00 pm Comment from: @Alison

How long does it take before the iron rod rusts?

Apr 05, 07 - 12:03 pm Comment from: Gawd I hate stupid people

@G-Zus

"Alison, the terrorist threat is entirely made up by the Bush administration to scare idiots like you."

tell that to the people who died at the world trade center you stupid freaking idiot

Apr 05, 07 - 12:03 pm Comment from: British born and bred

For a start at pimps, shut up!!! i mean for crying out loud do ave a life urself, yes its pointless but to actually do it must have been fun. Its just people having a bit of fun and a laugh!! End of!

plus it was at 6:53pm which means they had finished a day's work had there tea and went for a boogie! for a change, cause how many times has this happened! eh!!

The people who think its idiot stupid and all that. What do you do at that time! and do u do the same thing every night!! a change is good!!

plus it was publicity for ipods, showing how many people have them in one place, shows how good they are!!

pity it wasnt better quality though!!!

Apr 05, 07 - 12:12 pm Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ British born and bred

Some people are deathly allergic to fun. >.<

Apr 05, 07 - 12:26 pm Comment from: TimD

Welcome to the real social.

Apr 05, 07 - 12:29 pm Comment from: LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son

Mind the Gap!

Apr 05, 07 - 12:32 pm Comment from: Idiot

It seems like a lot of fun. Even for someone whose eyes witnessed the fall of the Twin Towers (non-sequitur, I know). I'd love for something like this to happen at Penn Station at 5:00 PM on a weekday. All the dogs and all their National Guardsmen would probably join in.

Apr 05, 07 - 12:37 pm Comment from: Angelus520

Mudflapper-can you imagine how much that would suck right now with all the construction BS going on and the slowdowns at the Belmont & Fullerton stations? It'd be cool to try, but I'm thinking we'll have to wait until 2009 when the CTA gets its sh*t fixed. grin

Apr 05, 07 - 12:51 pm Comment from: Alison's Groupie

"All the dogs and all their National Guardsmen would probably join in."

Not a chance. All those kids dancing in silence are nothing but terrorists. The National Guard has its reputation to uphold. It knew what to do at Kent State, and did it.

Apr 05, 07 - 12:54 pm Comment from: MacGuy

Mark,

I Europe they ARE already in Guantanamo, being filmed and watched and profiled every step they do in the cities.

Think about it....

Apr 05, 07 - 01:00 pm Comment from: Cubert

I don't think I want to see what this would have looked like if they were Zune users instead.

Welcome to the facial.

Apr 05, 07 - 01:47 pm Comment from: Jim - TIV

Cubert... that's the best take so far! hilarious!

Apr 05, 07 - 03:23 pm Comment from: Big Al

It's tough being on the dole. You sit around all day watching telly. You go for a curry. What else is there?

Just grab that iPod loaded with pirated tunes and head for the nearest flash mob.

Very crappy pictures at 11.

Apr 05, 07 - 04:01 pm Comment from: Always Right

How nice.
Mutual masturbation.

Apr 05, 07 - 04:46 pm Comment from: ED

i can't believe youtube is so popular. the video quality is horrible on there!

Apr 05, 07 - 06:49 pm Comment from: Woody

I wished this happened in the US. (Does it?) Those crazy Brits have all the fun. *cry*

@Alison: "Fear: an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat." See, that's what the terrorists want to do -- subdue people by causing them fear. It sounds to me like the terrorists have succeeded with you.

MW: I need to find some people around here to do this!

Apr 05, 07 - 07:03 pm Comment from: maczealot

What the world needs is more unabashed nontoxic zaniness.

Apr 05, 07 - 10:19 pm Comment from: Freddy the Pig

Those who cannot hear the music,
Think the dancer's mad.

Apr 05, 07 - 10:53 pm Comment from: dzir

dear r,

jaded is a word you know much too well. what a shame.

Apr 05, 07 - 10:55 pm Comment from: dzir

viva hedonistic pleasures!!!

Apr 06, 07 - 12:31 am Comment from: nsapap

Too much free time!

Apr 06, 07 - 12:56 am Comment from: Charko

Freddy the Pig,

yeah.

In the first video, I caught a glimpse of a businessman walking by.
His pace quickened as he noticed the masses of writhing bodies.

Apr 06, 07 - 09:57 am Comment from: Rajive

Pathetic losers!

Apr 07, 07 - 02:19 pm Comment from: fantastic

it's hilarious that there are people who fail to get the fun in this. it must be the same creative minds who identify with the ever-so-funny mac vs pc ads and think that 'irony' is a kind of metal.

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