How'd Miss This on the Green Bay Metro?

I know living in the "Frozen Tundra" (to be redundant, a fact most folks overlook) area of the country means that things like news gets around to us only eventually. World events are long gone before the delivery system relates anything to us. The internet has proven a real eye-opener, but it's also proven to be a source of discontent. I mean, I have to check it EVERY day to make sure the world hasn't passed me by. However diligent I may have been, January 10th went right by me. Of course, in my defense, I was driving back from Milwaukee, and the Packers WERE on TV later, but, still...
You see, January 10th was the 9th annual "No Pants Subway Ride" which was celebrated this year in more than 44 cities in 16 countries around the world...but probably not in Green Bay. And the snow shouldn't matter: it snowed for the first time this year on the ride day in New York, and 1200 people shoed up regardless. Of course, this event began in New York by a group called "Improv Everywhere" (see the link below) so it was only right that it continue through the inclemency. Of course, there's a YOUTube video, several, in fact as bloggers continued to weigh in from places like London, Barcelona, Stockholm, Vienna and Sydney. In truth, though, most places reporting in noted far fewer people actually showed up than signed up. And lest you think otherwise, it was not just frat guys and sorority girls doing this: participants crossed a wide spectrum.
Arrested for public indecency? I saw nothing about that, but in an age when teenagers are wearing pajamas to school and have to reach to their ankles to retrieve anything out of their jeans pocket, I'm not surprised. It's not like this is any more crazy than people jumping into freezing water on January 1st. Maybe it just has something to do with the month of January.
Anyway, there were no reports in the local paper or television of anyone participating in Green Bay that day on the transit system.
Of course, there WAS the Packers debacle in the works, and such behavior might seem almost normal.
If that's what it takes to get this city into the big time, I'm marking my calendar right now: see you on January 10, 2011.

http://improveverywhere.com/2009/01/14/no-pants-2k9/