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Video: Flash mob shuts down London train station

Paul Boutin, The Industry Standard02.09.2009
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The flash mob has returned. Videos posted to YouTube over the weekend show how Friday evening's spontaneous "silent disco" gathering at London's Liverpool Street train station became far more successful than its anonymous founder could have hoped.

The event, a parody of a January gathering organized by T-Mobile for an ad campaign, was posted to Facebook two weeks ago by the pseudonymous "Crazzy Eve," who identifed himself to CNN as a 22-year-old male. Facebook users can sign up for an event on the site. Crazzy Eve's "Liverpool Street Station Silent Dance" had 14,000 members as of last Friday.

T-Mobile's event featured a few hundred dancers and some professional choreographing. By contrast, while police in London declined to estimate the headcount of Crazzy Eve's flash mob, YouTube videos show the station packed shoulder-to-shoulder with amateur dancers.

 

After you watch this one, click through to YouTube for a set of related videos from the event. One attendee has also posted high-res photos to Flickr.

 

(Photo: Joe Baynham)

 


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