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Laurence wrote on 5/19/2006, 7:12 PM
Funny stuff!
Serena wrote on 5/19/2006, 7:25 PM
A sort of analogy of Bush's guys: can't see them doing anything wrong but obviously their intentions are evil.
MH_Stevens wrote on 5/19/2006, 8:26 PM
Thanks Spot - LOL

jrazz wrote on 5/19/2006, 8:58 PM
Funny... I just didn't get the point of the mission or rather, the goal. Maybe I was just expecting more.

j razz
TheHappyFriar wrote on 5/19/2006, 9:06 PM
amazing how some people can take a practical joke on best buy & turn it in to a political statement. I'm assuming that if they were at target it would be Vladimir Putin's guy's.

re: jrazz

i'm not 100% sure of the point eigther. They got to the end & forgot out the last paragraph! :)
Serena wrote on 5/19/2006, 9:33 PM
Hooked!

I think the point was to see how the store would react. Actually not surprising that they got spooked.
TShaw wrote on 5/20/2006, 12:19 AM
Thanks Spot!

Just think, every time some one in a blue shirt enters that store... RED ALERT!!! LOL.

Terry
fldave wrote on 5/20/2006, 7:33 AM
I thought it was great. From another one of their missions:

"Like most Improv Everywhere missions, our goal with The Mp3 Experiment was to give folks something to smile about."

A rather noble and innocent goal. Much better than physically hurting someone, or trying to take over another country or something.

Thanks for the link, Spot. Reading material for the next week!
Logan5 wrote on 5/20/2006, 11:17 PM
funny...
Perhaps they should have a mission at an airport?

So fifty people could request a strip search – after all the “80 year old grandmother” got a free one.
Or after passing thru the metal detectors, request a second scan, just to be sure.

But watch out: Airports are like a “police state” from what I’ve seen & experienced.
SimonW wrote on 5/21/2006, 1:47 PM
My only question is, why?
David Jimerson wrote on 5/21/2006, 3:18 PM
Yeah, I'm not getting the point of this, either.
Chienworks wrote on 5/21/2006, 4:52 PM
I get the point. I'm just not sure it was valid in this case.

I read about another "event" this group did in a cafe. About 20 performers repeated exactly the same things in the same sequence every 15 minutes or so for several hours. A couple came in, had an argument about where to eat, and left, someone else came in and ordered a drink, another group had a loud conversation in the corner, etc. This went on in the same pattern again and again with exactly the same events and actions repeating. After the 3rd or 4th time through customers in the cafe started noticing and even predicting when certain things would happen. The effect was rather surreal at first, but eventually the crowd started enjoying it. Now that one seemed very interesting.

The BestBuy one seems more calculated to disrupt business though, or at the least raise the suspicions of the security department and get them in trouble. While i can appreciate the ideals of the group i think some of the events they choose are a bit overboard.
soaringrocks wrote on 5/21/2006, 9:18 PM
I also liked their missions of the no pants on the subway, and at the Virgin Megastore.

This group is great!
jkrepner wrote on 5/22/2006, 7:27 AM
"My only question is, why?"

Why? Performance art. It proves we are human beings, the only animal with a sense of humor. Stuff like this hints at how absurd life has become when a group of blue-shirt wearing people gather in one location and chaos ensues as other people wearing the same sort of blue shirts flip out. Reminds me of British humor for some reason.

Brilliant!
RalphM wrote on 5/22/2006, 8:33 AM
Sort of reminds me of college type pranks - harmless but pointless...

(The police who had to waste their time on this probably would disagree with the harmless part)