Participants in the 13th "No Pants Subway Ride" travel on an Underground train in London on Sunday, January 12. The annual event first <a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fimproveverywhere.com%2Fmissions%2Fthe-no-pants-subway-ride%2F" target="_blank" target="_blank">started in New York City</a> in 2002, when one pantsless participant boarded a subway at each of seven consecutive stops, claiming to have forgotten his pants. Since then, cities all over the world have seen bare-legged patrons on subways.
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Participants in the 13th "No Pants Subway Ride" travel on an Underground train in London on Sunday, January 12. The annual event first started in New York City in 2002, when one pantsless participant boarded a subway at each of seven consecutive stops, claiming to have forgotten his pants. Since then, cities all over the world have seen bare-legged patrons on subways.
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A man enters the New York subway in his underwear.
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A man enters the New York subway in his underwear.
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People with and without pants walk up a staircase at a subway station in New York.
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People with and without pants walk up a staircase at a subway station in New York.
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People ride the U2 subway line in Berlin.
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People ride the U2 subway line in Berlin.
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A woman stands between two pantsless passengers in Madrid.
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A woman stands between two pantsless passengers in Madrid.
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A fully clothed woman talks to women in their underwear at a subway station in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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A fully clothed woman talks to women in their underwear at a subway station in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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A man reads a newspaper in his underwear while riding a Metro train in Washington.
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A man reads a newspaper in his underwear while riding a Metro train in Washington.
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People wait at a Metro station in Mexico City.
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People wait at a Metro station in Mexico City.
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Participants travel without their pants in Madrid.
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Participants travel without their pants in Madrid.
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People stand on the platform at the Potsdamer Platz station in Berlin.
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People stand on the platform at the Potsdamer Platz station in Berlin.
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Pantsless passengers travel on a London Underground train.
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Pantsless passengers travel on a London Underground train.
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Pantsless patrons walk through a subway station in Paris.
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Pantsless patrons walk through a subway station in Paris.
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People ride a train in Beijing.
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People ride a train in Beijing.
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People walk around a Hong Kong train station in their underwear.
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People walk around a Hong Kong train station in their underwear.
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A couple in their underwear wait for a train at a Kiev, Ukraine, subway station.
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A couple in their underwear wait for a train at a Kiev, Ukraine, subway station.
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A man in his underwear shares a laugh with a fully clothed man on a train in Berlin.
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A man in his underwear shares a laugh with a fully clothed man on a train in Berlin.
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Men wave from a train in Brussels, Belgium.
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Men wave from a train in Brussels, Belgium.
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A woman in her underwear rushes to catch a train in Berlin.
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A woman in her underwear rushes to catch a train in Berlin.
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