It’s very good to know that although time moves on, young adults will continue to find zany ways to have fun. As reported in our local paper yesterday, Flashmob is a growing movement around the world with Flashmob events have already taken place in major cities such as Tokyo, London, Madrid and New York. It is described as a sudden gathering of people who spontaneously perform something unified and unusual then disperse.
A local university student had the idea to bring this to Canberra. Advertised on Facebook, participants were to turn up at a prearranged venue (Floriade) with hidden pillows and upon a given signal a pillow fight was to erupt until a second signal when all participants were to disperse into the gathered crowd of onlookers. They then moved to a nearby shopping area and repeated the event. It was obviously a lot of harmless fun that would have really had onlookers wondering what was going on.
A video of the event is naturally on YouTube, just enter a search for Canberra Flashmob. Searching simply for Flashmob brings up rather a large number of hits.
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