City Freezes In Online Prank 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

• NYC's Grand Central Station frozen
• London freezes
• Massive pillow fight in San Francisco

Update: I was on TV!

Keep an eye out for me at 0:01 and 0:14 ;)

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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
  www.dbedford.com - Sydney Events Photographer

  http://www.dbedford.com

  Posted Thursday 26 June, 2008 1:11 PM
• 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!
  do some in melbourne, that would be so much fun

  Posted Saturday 5 July, 2008 7:46 PM
• skye says

  they need 2 do one in perth, id b in it!!!

  Posted Saturday 5 July, 2008 7:51 PM

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