No Pants Metro Ride In Los Angeles Goes Off Without A Hitch (PHOTOS)

Los Angeles metro riders were in for a treat (or shock) on Sunday when hordes of pantsless passengers walked through the turnstiles at metro stations in Koreatown, Pasadena, East LA and North Hollywood for a summit at Union Station.

They were all part of the annual "No Pants Subway Ride," first organized by Improve Everywhere in New York City. The stunt was inaugurated in 2002 when seven pranksters boarded a subway without pants. Ten years later, the delightfully tacky gag has spread across the globe and enlisted thousands of "agents" in a yearly mission.

In Los Angeles, GLA (Guerrilla Los Angeles) Improv took up the mantle for the fourth time in a row and organized a dossier for Angelenos looking to ditch their clothes. Cindy Bolf, a co-organizer along with Leo Gonzalez, told the Huffington Post that the event went off without a hitch. "I'm really happy with how it went," said Bolf. "From the participants that showed up to the people on the metro, everyone was having a good time and a good laugh."

For Los Angeles pranksters, Sunday's final destination was the Hollywood and Highland metro stop. "Agents" posed with tourists, Hollywood Boulevard characters, and each other for the rest of the afternoon before returning to their normal, pants-filled lives.

WATCH: See the fateful moment when dozens of Angelenos decided to drop trou (video set to the classic song "Me So Horny," so watch it on mute or with headphones).

One newcomer Gregory Tung blogged about his experience and confessed that he broke one of the stated rules of the day: don't explain the stunt. A woman asking if it was part of an Occupy Protest was continually rebuffed on the train ride, so Tung broke his silence and let her in on the joke. He explained, "the woman started out looking so interested and happy but when we continually gave her the run-around, she looked annoyed and disappointed. I thought that rule was stupid. So I leaned forward and told her quietly it was just for fun, not a statement or anything."

Other cities in on the joke: New York, Washington D.C., London and Mexico City. To learn more about the no pants subway ride, check out ImproveEverywhere.com.

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Comments

[Tiana Moore]

12:34 AM on 01/19/2012

Ugh.. that must have made the ride a lot more smelly!

[JohnT1919]

01:41 PM on 01/10/2012

Darn! I take the Metro all the time, and hate I missed this! I was not aware of this until just now. How fun! This a good way to bring people together in a positive way.

[Soliel]

11:31 AM on 01/10/2012

I am all for positive fun culture that enlivens things, etc but I think another way to do this would've been better. It's kind of gross having people with undewear hiking up their rear to be sitting down on public benches.

[earto44]

08:13 AM on 01/10/2012

This should be on every Saturday.

[Angie Daniels]

02:03 AM on 01/10/2012

OH man! I want to do this next year.

[Alicia Sonshine Fort]

01:49 AM on 01/10/2012

I did the no pants thing too. . . in my house where it's warm. . .

[Angie Daniels]

02:03 AM on 01/10/2012

We've been hitting 80s in LA... so it's warm here :)

[Lady Saera]

01:47 AM on 01/10/2012

Seems like a bit of foolishness, there is the beach you know;)

[insanityfollows]

10:01 PM on 01/09/2012

Yeah, this is my town. I live here and I still shake my head every day in wonder at all the wacky things that go on here. This is funny though!

[soundmangreen]

06:35 PM on 01/09/2012

I used to ride the Metro without pants before it got all corporate...

[Angie Daniels]

02:03 AM on 01/10/2012

Okay.. you've got a fan

[usrnmna]

07:19 AM on 01/18/2012

LOL.

[Maureen Entera]

05:39 PM on 01/09/2012

Okay, admittedly I'm getting a little old, but the choice of music for this was really not cool. The music was all about graphic sex. The idea of the "no pants" subway ride was to have fun and make not wearing pants no-big-deal, it's almost a family thing.

[Gennaphyr]

12:59 AM on 01/10/2012

agreed, the song choice was stupid

[Scandalous]

04:45 PM on 01/09/2012

Had such a great time this weekend. We might not have the snow that NY has but we have style and colorful characters. Don't knock it until you've got the guts to try it.

[DanSc]

06:10 PM on 01/09/2012

Do you have the guts to ride the Blue Line wearing no pants?

[KIMBER]

06:33 PM on 01/09/2012

I see quite a few people in those pictures who have guts - even in LA, folks are a whole lot bigger than they used to be.

[Scandalous]

01:36 PM on 01/10/2012

I was responsible for the Purple line this year. If enough people want to join from the blue, I wouldn't mind running that line. Honestly, the gold line is closest to me but I wouldn't discriminate. Besides it's a good excuse to go to the LBC.

[derrickhoyle]

04:42 PM on 01/09/2012

I predict a spike in pink eye cases in the coming days.

[Clare53]

04:42 PM on 01/09/2012

Wasn't "last Sunday" yesterday?

[JohnnyKong]

04:21 PM on 01/09/2012

They should just call this the Self-Loving-Hipsters-With-Closet-Perverts Gathering 2012

[Peter Juliano]

04:05 PM on 01/09/2012

They're trying to be COOL like NYC hipsters ... but, thay can't .. because LA just ain't hip compared to New York City

[psycho vato loco]

10:24 PM on 03/17/2012

If you knew anything. . . . . . . . You'd know that LA is where most trends start, then everyone else picks up on it 10 or 15 years later.

[Peter Juliano]

07:11 PM on 03/30/2012

Yeah, that's why NYC is the fashion capital ... they just use the cheap labor here to make clothes i.e (American Apparel). LA is void of culture compared to other places. Even the hipsters here copied their style from the hipsters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. LA has a very nice climate ... but that is about it.