Setting a World Record
This Saturday I had the opportunity to be a part of something big. Something awesome. Something so freaking fun I could scarcely believe it was happening. Roughly 3,300 people showed up at the Galivan Center on Saturday night wearing nothing more than their underwear and shoes to participate in the Undie Run. It was an attempt to break the previous world record of 550 people running in their underwear through town and we beat it by having over 2,500 more people than the previous record.
My Part
I got a group of about ten people to come with me to the Undie Run and we had quite the fun time. There were six of us who were wearing nothing but a pair of boxerbriefs and a cape each. It made quite the impression I'm sure. As a group, everyone who came to the Undie Run ran from the Galivan Center up to the capitol and back again. After we returned we were spoken to by Rocky Anderson and the afterparty began.
My Favorite
My favorite part of the Undie Run was not the people in the Undie Run themselves but rather the reactions of the people watching. It was very clear who approved and who disapproved of this particular kind of protest and that directly influenced how they reacted to it. Many people cheered us on, laughing excitedly, and most of them videotaped the run as it passed them by. It was the people who disapproved that were the fun ones though. The fact that everything we were doing was legal meant that they couldn't tell us to stop or get us in trouble. So the majority of people who were unhappy with the run would just glare at us. They wouldn't say anything to us, even if we spoke to them, they just ignored us. Which of course to me was no less funny than anything else they could have done. Offending people on purpose is generally a bad idea, but I feel a certain level of discomfort can always lead to a lot of entertainment.
This Saturday I had the opportunity to be a part of something big. Something awesome. Something so freaking fun I could scarcely believe it was happening. Roughly 3,300 people showed up at the Galivan Center on Saturday night wearing nothing more than their underwear and shoes to participate in the Undie Run. It was an attempt to break the previous world record of 550 people running in their underwear through town and we beat it by having over 2,500 more people than the previous record.
My Part
I got a group of about ten people to come with me to the Undie Run and we had quite the fun time. There were six of us who were wearing nothing but a pair of boxerbriefs and a cape each. It made quite the impression I'm sure. As a group, everyone who came to the Undie Run ran from the Galivan Center up to the capitol and back again. After we returned we were spoken to by Rocky Anderson and the afterparty began.
My Favorite
My favorite part of the Undie Run was not the people in the Undie Run themselves but rather the reactions of the people watching. It was very clear who approved and who disapproved of this particular kind of protest and that directly influenced how they reacted to it. Many people cheered us on, laughing excitedly, and most of them videotaped the run as it passed them by. It was the people who disapproved that were the fun ones though. The fact that everything we were doing was legal meant that they couldn't tell us to stop or get us in trouble. So the majority of people who were unhappy with the run would just glare at us. They wouldn't say anything to us, even if we spoke to them, they just ignored us. Which of course to me was no less funny than anything else they could have done. Offending people on purpose is generally a bad idea, but I feel a certain level of discomfort can always lead to a lot of entertainment.
Offending people on purpose IS generally a bad idea, but when someone is offended by what you do lets say but just being who you want to be (standing up for your rights by protest) then that is their own problem :)
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