Passengers get cheeky on the MTR on 'No Pants Day'
Scores of people took part in the city's second No Pants Subway Ride yesterday in an annual "celebration of silliness" aimed at causing "scenes of chaos and joy in public spaces".
There were giggles, gasps and glares on the MTR yesterday as passengers boarded the trains having seemingly forgotten to get fully dressed - and not yet realised.
The event was started by New York-based theatre group and "prank collective" Improv Everywhere in 2002.
At least 40 men and women gathered, fully dressed, at the IFC Mall in Central before heading underground and splitting into groups and boarding a train. At Admiralty, they exited the carriages and the trousers came off.
For more than 90 minutes, MTR commuters from Central to North Point to Prince Edward were treated to a bizarre display of underwear. The half-dressed passengers gave nothing away as they journeyed nonchalantly around Hong Kong and Kowloon before ending the event at Hong Kong Station.
One man, coolly listening to music, showed off his Homer Simpson boxers, while another man dressed in a smart shirt, tie and black boxers read a book silently next to a baffled woman and her granddaughter.