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500 People convince Grand Central that time had stopped watch!

current.com — A flash mob of people descend on Grand Central to perform what has to be the best improv ever. It has everyone in the entire station utterly confused!

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  • richjmdigg, on 02/02/2008, -8/+56Fantastic. I love the guy on the buggy's baffled commentary.
    • Ataxia2008, on 02/02/2008, -0/+7I would LOVE to see this sort of thing on Oxford Street (London) on a Saturday around Midday. Chaos
    • wakeey, on 02/02/2008, -9/+6sounded mighty fake to me
      • ItsGus, on 02/02/2008, -1/+4I agree, Wakeey. even though you're getting dugg down (weak).
        The commentary was likely added to the video later, from a voice actor, rather than recorded on the spot.
    • digitalarcanum, on 02/02/2008, -2/+1DIO BRANDO: Time has stopped.
  • JPRuss, on 02/02/2008, -4/+230Got to love messing with people's heads :-)
    • glinsvad, on 02/02/2008, -2/+55I'm sure that the pickpockets were loving it too
      • sarixe, on 02/02/2008, -1/+2and to think that didn't occur to them...
  • kierand, on 02/02/2008, -6/+26that's incredible!
  • chubbybubba, on 02/02/2008, -6/+439I find it amusing that some people are taking photos.
    • KloroFormd, on 02/02/2008, -9/+70Even the people that are still moving will look like part of it. Video, on the other hand, works.
      • Schmich, on 02/02/2008, -1/+8Oh! Thanks Captain Obvious. I didn't get chubbybubba's comment.
        • crowbar77, on 02/02/2008, -6/+2Although I agree with what your saying, I'm going to digg you down for using "Captain Obvious". What are we 5?
    • ryanonfire, on 02/02/2008, -0/+70Good chance to use a long exposure rate
    • mrhaines, on 02/02/2008, -1/+4See mom! Those people right there in the picture aren't moving! Weird hey?
    • stackered, on 02/03/2008, -1/+1Yeah... "Hey guys look at this photo of everyone standing still! It really happened look!"
      Pretty sick idea though.
  • witcompe, on 02/02/2008, -8/+825500? The video says 207.
    • cr4ft, on 02/02/2008, -89/+7who cares
      • sgtbutterscotch, on 02/02/2008, -6/+61me
      • whatsgoodike, on 02/02/2008, -4/+146You don't care? Awesome; you give me $500 and I'll give you $207. No biggie right?
        • LloydBentsen, on 02/02/2008, -58/+3Knowing that there were 500 people freezing in place is worth $500 to you?
        • threemagic, on 02/02/2008, -5/+1I'd rather punch you 500 times and you punch me 207
        • Richggs, on 02/02/2008, -1/+1Not realy its still 207 more than you had....
        • cr4ft, on 02/02/2008, -2/+1Clearly it's the same thing, because this 500 was so very important
    • mikesbaker, on 02/02/2008, -5/+154500 sounds like a much better headline than 207 this is digg after all
      • BrokenNebula, on 02/02/2008, -0/+5It was really OVER 9000?!?!?!??!
      • Komgol, on 02/03/2008, -0/+1BREAKING: 500 true patriots dupe the Main Stream Media into thinking that time has stopped.
    • MaruLono, on 02/02/2008, -0/+14would've been cool to see 500 people do that in grand central, too.
    • johnny222, on 02/02/2008, -0/+18Wow, you're at just over 500 diggs right now.
    • DeathJux, on 02/02/2008, -3/+107207 is 500 in dog people.
    • hangglide, on 02/02/2008, -0/+19As my granddad used to say, "Never let truth get in the way of a good story."

      Pretty cool though. Dugg it.
      • toppgun, on 02/02/2008, -1/+4hey, thats what I always say.
        how did you scratch yourself?
        you see, it all started when i was attacked by pirates. then the ninjas came....
    • DeFex, on 02/02/2008, -0/+31I told you a million times not to exaggerate!
    • WhiskeyTango, on 02/02/2008, -1/+13You cant blame the submitter for the incorrect title... that's just how it was titled when it was on reddit yesterday...
      • URnotheonly1, on 02/02/2008, -1/+2ya but that site sucks so nobody saw it.
    • Tarkaan, on 02/02/2008, -2/+16You can't have more than 299 because when you get to 300, you invade Persia.
    • MasterPlayer, on 02/02/2008, -0/+4The guy who submitted it to Reddit said 500 too...coincidence? I think not! Either this is the same guy or digg users are just copying and pasting from Reddit to Digg.
    • DigitalMidget13, on 02/02/2008, -0/+1Its over 9000!!!
    • stackered, on 02/03/2008, -0/+1Yeah... whats weird is I only counted 206....
  • seldon452, on 02/02/2008, -44/+20This is why I love living in New York City, becuase of stuff like this happens every day.
    • ElAssoWipo, on 02/02/2008, -14/+32And you get to breathe burning sewage everyday, even eat it!
      • dumpyhumpy, on 02/02/2008, -12/+4ummm... that doesn't happen here...
        • MatchStick, on 02/02/2008, -1/+11yeah...and when it does ... meh.
        • 15thPD, on 02/02/2008, -7/+3Yes it does. Ever see steam randomly billowing out of the ground? That's burning *****.
          • orca94, on 02/02/2008, -0/+10No, that's called steam from the Keyspan plant in Long Island City across the east river. They use the steam for HVAC systems in high rises in Manhattan. It's called being smart by increasing the thermal efficiency of your power plant by capitalizing on all of its products.
        • mikesbaker, on 02/02/2008, -3/+7usually ground steam is just from a large building's boiler but new york is seriously a nasty ***** hole evidence from a KFC
          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su0U37w2tws
      • orca94, on 02/02/2008, -10/+1Right... Because there are people on the corner of every major intersection of NY burning *****. Then again you're a ***** conservative/libertarian piece of ***** (who should be burned) so I wouldn't expect you to like NYC anyway. In fact I highly doubt you've even ever been there...
        • mhaus, on 02/02/2008, -1/+7k so I'm liberal but I don't know where you pulled some conservative/libertarian cards from.
          Uncalled for man. Have some respect for yourself and others. You're making people like me look bad by talking.
        • adooga, on 02/02/2008, -1/+3Wow, that really came out of nowhere.
        • orca94, on 02/02/2008, -0/+2ElAssoWipo has been pissing me off with his ***** for a while now, it's not quite out of nowhere.

          And no, I have no respect for him and never will.
    • NeoSporin, on 02/02/2008, -0/+22no it doesn't
    • rickytan, on 02/02/2008, -0/+18Haha, have you ever been to new york? This was a really, really great performance...I wish I was there. For the record, stuff like this DOES NOT happen every day in new york.
      • Supurcell, on 02/02/2008, -0/+18Yeah it does. Only it's with cars instead of people.
    • orxor, on 02/02/2008, -1/+4Where's that happening today? I'd like to go see it.
  • MrRedneck, on 02/02/2008, -5/+12Heh, this is pretty awesome. I love how they all start moving.. there are few places this would have worked, I'm sure.
  • cr4ft, on 02/02/2008, -4/+231They looked pretty damn frozen, as if they didn't even fidget
    • abid786, on 02/02/2008, -1/+68The low resolution of the video might have fooled you.
    • halfdirt, on 02/02/2008, -0/+11It was edited too.
    • h4mx0r, on 02/02/2008, -0/+20You could see the asian girl's eyes move (the one holding the banana)
      • defectDS, on 02/02/2008, -2/+44How can one hold a banana that close to the face without breaking a teensy-weensy smile? :P
    • NikoKun, on 02/02/2008, -1/+2Most of them were also art and theator students... Look up Improve Everywhere.
  • Remccs, on 02/02/2008, -5/+105"i need help, i can't move my cart"
    well done
  • Tenetri, on 02/02/2008, -4/+98haha, that would be fun to do something like that... Or that one where the students walked across the street for 5 minutes, continuously going though a door though a underground pass in the school in a big chain.
    Dugg for epicness
  • MasterThief117, on 02/02/2008, -4/+281"I think it's some kind of protest..."
    They are protesting against locomotion.
  • nerfnick, on 02/02/2008, -19/+146Dupe:
    http://digg.com/people/New_Improv_Everywhere_Froze ...
    • Tenlow, on 02/02/2008, -0/+26Don't forget blogspam. The original one at least gave credit where it was due.
  • Rikushix, on 02/02/2008, -38/+34This is a dupe. Christ, this is getting worse and worse. This was just on the front page this afternoon. Buried.
    • TheBuzzKiller, on 02/02/2008, -10/+6You're comment is a dupe ...
    • d03boy, on 02/02/2008, -8/+8Bury it. Obviously there are a lot of people that haven't seen it yet, so shut up.
    • kutateli, on 02/02/2008, -0/+7It's actually on the Top10 list as we speak...
  • slightlygifted, on 02/02/2008, -10/+266i wonder if anyone tried feeling up one of the frozen girls.
    • PabloMac, on 02/02/2008, -22/+1"You better stop wasting time on that @#$! Digg site, or I'll have your dad go down there and set you straight!"
    • 15thPD, on 02/02/2008, -2/+44First thought that came to my mind.
      • saifatlast, on 02/02/2008, -6/+26You should probably get help.
        • had3l, on 02/02/2008, -4/+28Because he is a man and human? Like anyone wouldn't feel them up if time actually did stop...
        • peranadigital, on 02/02/2008, -2/+3You're not right sir.
      • Akintunde, on 02/02/2008, -0/+1Aye, same here, actually.
      • desmondregan, on 02/07/2008, -0/+2you have a very beautiful mind, come down to princeton east wing, room 103 for study
    • republikhan, on 02/02/2008, -8/+2Your the type of person to date rape someone
      • Hollowpoint, on 02/02/2008, -2/+8What about his 'the type of person to date rape someone?'
      • threemagic, on 02/02/2008, -2/+3Because he'd touch a boob on a frozen girl? That equates to date raping? Really?
    • BillMoocho, on 02/02/2008, -3/+2I would've just tried to steal their wallets.
    • cambob76, on 02/02/2008, -1/+2Titty twister or a sack grab would have had them moving, I reckon.
  • Cyre, on 02/02/2008, -4/+18I wonder how they timed it so perfectly...
    • kajoob, on 02/02/2008, -0/+6ball bearings.
      • CobaltBlue, on 02/02/2008, -0/+4It's all ball bearings these days.
    • ViralMonkey, on 02/02/2008, -1/+8Synchronised watches and planning.
    • lordsteve, on 02/02/2008, -1/+3Plastics.
    • DeFex, on 02/02/2008, -1/+11seem to remember train stations have these big things that tell time, I have heard them called "clocks"
  • DeviantDragon, on 02/02/2008, -6/+11It's already in the top 10 for cripes' sake.
  • Chaoticfist, on 02/02/2008, -23/+9That is crazy. Imagine going in there after smoking some pot lmao. Id be like...holy *****...im tripin out man!!!!!!
    • dante88, on 02/02/2008, -2/+5good... story...
    • StolenLamp, on 02/02/2008, -2/+7Imagine some dumb guy posting on Digg after smoking some pot... "lmao".
      • DeathJux, on 02/02/2008, -0/+3You'd have the vast majority of late night posts.
    • jellygraph, on 02/02/2008, -0/+2yes, as if pot would make you lose all sense of reasoning
  • blckt, on 02/02/2008, -18/+17dupe, dupe, no digg
    • zeromancer, on 02/02/2008, -3/+4with an inaccurate headline no less.
  • sevenslashfour, on 02/02/2008, -3/+7That was beyond awesome.
  • Anonymous99, on 02/02/2008, -5/+9More information on the event: http://www.improveverywhere.com/2008/01/31/frozen- ...
  • ldjarmin, on 02/02/2008, -22/+9Better quality:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU
    • chawkie, on 02/02/2008, -1/+3I always fall for that! Damn you to hell!
    • NOFXY, on 02/02/2008, -1/+5i hate you...
    • 15thPD, on 02/02/2008, -0/+2Touche Rick, Touche.
    • MatchStick, on 02/02/2008, -1/+1FINALLY it happened to me!! thanx... i guess i should hate you ldjarmin, but i can't.
    • Easyoffbam, on 02/02/2008, -0/+4You idiots! Do you not recognize the 'uuiU' part?
  • 4d669, on 02/02/2008, -10/+4If they were all actors then people must have had quite an experience. They should try it again with more people and a hacker that stops the clocks.

    Title is inaccurate.
    • Paranoidmarvin, on 02/02/2008, -1/+3Honestly, can't you give them some credit?
      I thought it was pretty cool
  • RooDoG, on 02/02/2008, -5/+2Brilliant!
  • Genius16, on 02/02/2008, -26/+8How ***** stupid are you to digg this? Or do you just not use Digg... This was on the frontpage like two hours ago. Its on page 2 right now. I've seen ALOT of dupes in my day, and this one is number four on the list of blatantly duped. Read digg before you digg...
    • ross., on 02/02/2008, -3/+31Shut the ***** up, I missed it the first time (different countries have different time zones). go for a walk outside so you can miss a story.
    • superdoofus, on 02/02/2008, -3/+2I will digg you down because "alot" is nowhere near the ***** phrase you were attempting to use. The next time you attempt to take anything to task, have your dumbass head on straight, OK?
      Furthermore, "Genius16" is no longer and apt descriptor for you.
    • ByteGuerilla, on 02/02/2008, -2/+9Quit moaning you *****. I just woke up (it's 07:43) so I missed the first ***** one and am glad it got frontpaged twice.

      You think it's some tragedy that the same thing gets to the frontpage twice? Does it enrage you? Do you not realise that it make no ***** difference? That you only saw it twice because it happened to be on there twice during your peak hours? The rest of the world does not run by your ***** clock.
    • Easyoffbam, on 02/02/2008, -1/+6I find it funny that your name is 'Genius16' yet you say 'a lot' as one word...
      • threemagic, on 02/02/2008, -1/+2His whole post is one big grammatical mess. Maybe it's an ironic name. Like a big guy named "Tiny"?
    • Haecceity, on 02/02/2008, -0/+3Why is it stupid not to have seen something on Digg? I'm sorry, but there seems to be something severely deficient about your ability to think clearly.
  • Berzerker7, on 02/02/2008, -12/+1I would've knocked one of them over lol.
  • xspeedcruiser, on 02/02/2008, -19/+3tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  • wearesc, on 02/02/2008, -19/+11Buried for being posted earlier
    • ByteGuerilla, on 02/02/2008, -4/+12Dugg down for excessive selfishness. The parts of the world that were sleeping when it hit the front page the first time might just be grateful that it got frontpaged twice. Digg is not your personal aggregator of all things interesting.
      • BenKenobi88, on 02/02/2008, -6/+1You don't seem to get it, do you? We could digg this story to the front page for the next month, and I'm sure there will be new people each day that didn't get to see this before. Where do you draw the line? You're ok with a dupe? How about 2 dupes? There's probably a ton of interesting stuff you miss out on each and every day...get used to it.
        • Aitese, on 02/02/2008, -1/+8The people who haven't seen are the ones Digging it...if you've seen it before move on...that too hard for you?
  • simonfl, on 02/02/2008, -7/+7I thought this would be about http://www.grandcentral.com and really wondered what the hell it was gonna be.
    • adooga, on 02/02/2008, -0/+2That's amazing, thanks for sharing.
    • Aitese, on 02/02/2008, -0/+6Right...because Grand Central station is the lesser known of the two.
  • Uncle_Joe, on 02/02/2008, -5/+18Wait.. agents involved "207" how the hell do you count 500?
    • HigherLogic, on 02/02/2008, -0/+37Because 7 minus 2 is equal to 5, and since you took two numbers away, you have to add two zeros to the end, leaving you with 500. It's simple maths really.
    • StolenLamp, on 02/02/2008, -4/+4207 of them were federal "agents", and the rest were actors.

      *EDIT* sorry, this post is lame.
  • DroogInPhoenix, on 02/02/2008, -4/+26We should do this around the Scientology buildings.
    • Velnich, on 02/02/2008, -0/+15There's enough ***** up ***** going on around those already.
  • KloroFormd, on 02/02/2008, -12/+4I'm surprised no one there thought to fart on one of these people to get them moving again.
    • MatchStick, on 02/02/2008, -0/+9really?? this is what surprises you?
    • StolenLamp, on 02/02/2008, -1/+0I'm suprised you're not in jail yet.
      • KloroFormd, on 02/02/2008, -2/+0Probation. Basically jail. Marijuana charges.
    • adooga, on 02/02/2008, -0/+1What's it like in there?
      • KloroFormd, on 02/02/2008, -1/+1The 1 night I spent there, it sucked. You get about a 2-feet wide bunk to sleep on, an old worn-out matress thing, a sheet, tiny blanket, and a pillow that's as useful as a sock filled with rice.
  • grenden, on 02/02/2008, -2/+4That is so mighty.
  • stormsewer, on 02/02/2008, -10/+4I would have humped someone just for the hell of it. If they really weren't moving what the hell were they going to do?!
    • superdoofus, on 02/02/2008, -0/+10i doubt it. chances are good that you would have kept to yourself.
    • mrnoodle, on 02/02/2008, -1/+1Yeah, I would have killed at least three of them, they wouldn't have been able to do anything about it.
  • hit9ent, on 02/02/2008, -6/+29when time stops its boobie touching time. hehehehehehe
    jusst kiddinnn.... or am i?
    • slipperysnider, on 02/02/2008, -7/+14if time stopped it's more than just boobie touching time... its me ***** everyone in that station. I'm talking every pussy, mouth, and ***** in that place gets rampaged then splooged on.
      • Commonwealth, on 02/02/2008, -0/+3I'm impressed you've got enough splooge to go around! Personally, my splooge can only go so far.
      • adooga, on 02/02/2008, -0/+12I don't have a pussy, but I'll be keeping my mouth and ***** well away from you if I can.
      • jellygraph, on 02/02/2008, -1/+14slippersnider: you are creepy
    • ByteGuerilla, on 02/02/2008, -2/+8Giggidy.
  • mal1964, on 02/02/2008, -2/+2So that's the reaction, when you think time has stopped.
  • felidaeus, on 02/02/2008, -2/+20There must have been some problems with platform 9 3/4
  • mrdiggdude, on 02/02/2008, -11/+5it isnt 500 its like 200, and burried because its a dupe (what the ***** is it doing on the front page AGAIN)
    • shitdigga, on 02/02/2008, -2/+3Read the comments *****
    • shitdigga, on 02/02/2008, -2/+3Read the comments ***** (what are you doing here AGAIN)
  • fartbuttes, on 02/02/2008, -5/+5I feel as if... as if I've seen this before somewhere... where have I seen this?
  • curme, on 02/02/2008, -6/+2They were a bunch of attention whores the first time, too.
  • DonJohnTom, on 02/02/2008, -2/+1don't they blink?
    • CobaltBlue, on 02/02/2008, -0/+2They use their peripherals and only blink when no one is looking.
  • tchowe, on 02/02/2008, -13/+3Every comment should be dugg down because this was submitted TWICE before... Via nerfnick.

    Kthxbye.
    • OstrakonX, on 02/02/2008, -1/+6Cool, let's start with yours.

      Sometimes, good content slips through the cracks. Who gives a ***** who submitted it?
  • ViralMonkey, on 02/02/2008, -2/+6To people who say that it is OK that it is submitted again as they missed the first, it is still on the top 10 bar to the side named "improv everywhere".
    • cambob76, on 02/02/2008, -1/+1Oh NOES! Somewhere a little puppy had to die because of that! Shame on you people!
  • bradcrc, on 02/02/2008, -2/+1if I saw that happen I'd join in. would work better in a park or less crowded place... in grand central most of the people were NOT in on it, so it didn't work as well. If it was a mall or something less crowded so almost nobody was moving, the effect would be better.
    • BlackStorm, on 02/02/2008, -0/+2the whole point is to have most of the people not in on it to get their reaction to 200 people just stopping for no reason.
    • gharding, on 02/02/2008, -0/+2This was the perfect setting for it. Giant open space with lots of people trying to move around quickly. Perfect number of participants, too. Most IE stunts end up with way too many participants.
  • Evolutuon, on 02/02/2008, -0/+58The people with video cameras have it right ... but those taking pictures? Yeah because I'm sure you can tell your friends the dude wasn't moving in the picture.

    Pretty neat trick though. :)
  • haselwimmer, on 02/02/2008, -19/+2sorry but this is ***** retarded.
  • OstrakonX, on 02/02/2008, -0/+10Very nice improv. It takes some skill to do that with a straight face, especially when your "audience" is snapping pictures in disbelief.
  • blacklilyninja, on 02/02/2008, -2/+2um I must have missed it the first time that everyone seems to be talking about but...... hey I thought it was pretty funny... the photographers especially lol
  • jessetessej, on 02/02/2008, -1/+1This has to make top 10 diggs. It's that awesome.
  • utahgeek, on 02/02/2008, -7/+2It's "odd for the sake of being odd". And it's not improv. It's very planned out and methodical. Lame.
    • Velnich, on 02/02/2008, -2/+2I wouldn't say lame, but you're right that it's not improv.
    • Haecceity, on 02/02/2008, -0/+2"Lame"? Please share with us the most interesting thing you've done this week. We're all waiting to be awed.
  • buddamus, on 02/02/2008, -1/+1Epic
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