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City Freezes In Online Prank Posted by Web Guy 24 June, 2008 - 6:52 PM
Thanks to Facebook and a couple of thousand other people, Sydney was the victim of a "flash mob".
In layman's terms (or in Wikipedia-speak), a flash mob involves "a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse."
Inspired by similar attempts in New York City and Paris, participants mingled in an open area.
At precisely 12:40pm, they all stood still.
For 3 minutes.
The rest of the world looked on in confusion, office workers on their lunchbreaks weaved their way through the "frozen crowd" and thought they were on the set of a movie.
Our cameras were there - check out all the action!
Were you there?
What do you think of the prank?
Would you join in any future flash mobs?
Have your say now!
Famous Flash Mobs
Update: I was on TV!
Keep an eye out for me at 0:01 and 0:14 ;)
Leave your comment
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Katherine says
It was an awesome experience. The looks on peoples face was great! Loved it!
Posted Tuesday 24 June, 2008 7:01 PM -
grace says
omg. that was awesome. they should do something like that over here in perth :D
Posted Tuesday 24 June, 2008 7:34 PM -
simone says
that's insane and hilarious stuff guys... wish i could've been there!
Posted Tuesday 24 June, 2008 10:10 PM -
Anisyah says
Oh wow, this awesome! I was there in Martin Place. After the freeze a woman came up to us as we were making our way back to Hyde Park. She told us she was actually a Sydney first timer, so she was kinda freaked out by what had happened. She laughed when we told her it was a massive prank. Oh I cant wait for the next prank!!!! XD
Posted Wednesday 25 June, 2008 10:04 AM -
stuff2say says
cool
Posted Wednesday 25 June, 2008 7:31 PM -
jimbo69 says
that's pretty awesome and very random
Im going to keep an eye out for the next one, i've gotta be there!
Posted Thursday 26 June, 2008 10:41 AM -
Dan says
Doesn't quite (way off) match up to the stunt in Central Station US - they had a few thousand people join in
Good to see it here again in OZ though, there was another a few months ago in Wynyard.
Dan
Posted Thursday 26 June, 2008 1:11 PM
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wooooo says
YAY i'm in it so are my friends!
my friend didn't realise was frozen for about 20 seconds and then she decided to freeze.
i was cleaning my glasses for the freeze
Posted Thursday 26 June, 2008 3:48 PM -
jayyyy says
thats so funny!
Posted Saturday 5 July, 2008 7:46 PM
do some in melbourne, that would be so much fun -
skye says
they need 2 do one in perth, id b in it!!!
Posted Saturday 5 July, 2008 7:51 PM
