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100 people take part in mass flash mob pillow fight
5:30pm Saturday 21st February 2009
SHOPPERS stopped dead in their tracks, mobile phones captured all the action and shop staff were drawn outside to watch.
No-one could believe their eyes as the clock struck 1pm today and a mass pillow fight involving around 100 people broke out in the centre of Southampton.
The nutty event is thought to be the city’s first ‘flashmob’, the latest craze where a large amount of people rapidly gather in one place to briefly perform unusual actions then disperse as quickly as they arrived.
As the wacky fighters clubbed each other with pillows, crowds gathered around the group, outside the entrance to WestQuay in Above Bar Street, to watch and film the bizarre act.
After around two minutes of fighting, an airhorn sounded and within seconds the crowds dispersed and normality was restored.
The event was organised on a social networking site.
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Boris Remmington, Wellow says...
6:15pm Sat 21 Feb 09
Boris Remmington, Wellow says...
6:17pm Sat 21 Feb 09
Nod, Southampton says...
6:25pm Sat 21 Feb 09
Georgem, Southampton says...
6:28pm Sat 21 Feb 09
Boris Remmington wrote:I bet myself £10 that some killjoy zero would make a comment like this
Echo will just encourage these mindless yobs by giving them publicity
Bright Spark, Stubbington says...
6:30pm Sat 21 Feb 09
... ... ... "Those aint pillows!"
Boris Remmington, Wellow says...
7:13pm Sat 21 Feb 09
Georgem, Southampton says...
7:39pm Sat 21 Feb 09
Boris Remmington wrote:Why will it? Have you never had any fun in your life or something?
Next time it will be snatching handbags
saintslou, southampton says...
7:53pm Sat 21 Feb 09
wilsamsaints, southampton says...
8:09pm Sat 21 Feb 09
Big Vern, Eastleigh says...
8:23pm Sat 21 Feb 09
wilsamsaints wrote:This is hilarious. Very funny.
are you sure it wasnt organised by rupert lowe to detract the attention of the fans march
I work in the 'on-line' industry. My opinion is that most social networking users are rather normal people, not yobs on-line, can you imagine www.yobsrus.co.uk!
Where is the evidence that this ws organised on a social networking site?? Could it have been soton uni students having a laugh.
The reporter of this story is using pure speculation to determine a cause, nothing more. Pillock - show me the evidence?
Rocker268, Southampton says...
9:01pm Sat 21 Feb 09
Big Vern wrote:It was indeed Students set up on Facebook.
wilsamsaints wrote: are you sure it wasnt organised by rupert lowe to detract the attention of the fans marchThis is hilarious. Very funny. I work in the 'on-line' industry. My opinion is that most social networking users are rather normal people, not yobs on-line, can you imagine www.yobsrus.co.uk! Where is the evidence that this ws organised on a social networking site?? Could it have been soton uni students having a laugh. The reporter of this story is using pure speculation to determine a cause, nothing more. Pillock - show me the evidence?
To those who thought that it was yobish need to lighten up, on the groups page there was strict instructions not too hit anyone not taking part.
There are things like this all the time in London, there was a water fight in one of the parks in the summer and there are often 'freeze' events where people just stop, all it is, is people having fun and I bet it made a lot of peoples day's just seeing something like that
Neophlegm, says...
9:04pm Sat 21 Feb 09
It was fun, COMPLETELY directed at the people taking part and not members of the public. Lighten up.
Peoples Poet, Southampton says...
9:13pm Sat 21 Feb 09
Maybe older generations should be maybe thinking light-en up.
At the end of the day it was pure bred fun,
The way people speaking is like bad stuff has been done.
At the end of the day, no one ended up dead,
To have a problem with this you are thick in the head.
Peoples Poet 2009
JamieC, says...
10:42pm Sat 21 Feb 09
The next thing planned on the table IS to steal handbags. After all the logical thing to do after a pillow fight is to steal. I for one found today not violent enough. Being young all I want to do is fight everyone and steal their handbags. Watch out Boris, your handbag is next!
fi_on_a_bike, says...
12:01am Sun 22 Feb 09
JamieC wrote:HAHAHA! JamieC, you legend.
Yes that is right actually Mr Boris Remmington!
The next thing planned on the table IS to steal handbags. After all the logical thing to do after a pillow fight is to steal. I for one found today not violent enough. Being young all I want to do is fight everyone and steal their handbags. Watch out Boris, your handbag is next!
I was in this and it was totally non-yobbish, just a bit of light hearted fun! I think it was good banter and the public loved it!
King Mush, Woolston says...
1:01am Sun 22 Feb 09
This sheeplike 'giggle' just shows the mentality of the Facebook generation who seem to spend hours in front of their PCS and type megabytes of bandwith full of verbal diarrhoea....
Hang on.....what am I doing???
click...............
wilsamsaints, southampton says...
7:19am Sun 22 Feb 09
Big Vern wrote:i thought it might CUSHION the blow
wilsamsaints wrote: are you sure it wasnt organised by rupert lowe to detract the attention of the fans marchThis is hilarious. Very funny. I work in the 'on-line' industry. My opinion is that most social networking users are rather normal people, not yobs on-line, can you imagine www.yobsrus.co.uk! Where is the evidence that this ws organised on a social networking site?? Could it have been soton uni students having a laugh. The reporter of this story is using pure speculation to determine a cause, nothing more. Pillock - show me the evidence?
tomnips, Southampton says...
10:17am Sun 22 Feb 09
King Mush wrote:Yes, this event is definitely not far removed from happy slapping. It was clear that random members of the public were targeted and unprovoked violence inflicted upon them. Indeed, the aim was to see how many people we could send to hospital within 3 minutes!
This silly stuff is not far removed by the pathetic so-called 'happy-slapping' and a the downside of the technological revolution.
This sheeplike 'giggle' just shows the mentality of the Facebook generation who seem to spend hours in front of their PCS and type megabytes of bandwith full of verbal diarrhoea....
Hang on.....what am I doing???
click...............
Just to make the difference perfectly clear, here are the definitions of each (courtesy of wikipedia)
Happy slapping: Happy slapping is a fad in which someone attacks an unsuspecting victim while an accomplice records the assault.
Flash Mob: A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse.
I hope you would stop comparing an act of peaceful fun with assault.
doodle1, eastleigh says...
12:10pm Sun 22 Feb 09
Georgem, Southampton says...
12:28pm Sun 22 Feb 09
doodle1 wrote:In all fairness, there's only been one guy making negative comments
come on guys where is your sense of fun!!
adclose, southampton says...
12:50pm Sun 22 Feb 09
take to the streets and have fun! life is too short otherwise. as long as no-one is getting hurt where is the harm?
yes there are serious issues to be dealt with effecting us all -but this kind of harmless, silly fun which lightens the mood and brightens our days is a ok with me and anyone got a problem with it? lighten up!
and good for these guys and anyone else who wants to do similar. go for it!
King Mush, Woolston says...
12:57pm Sun 22 Feb 09
Now that would be fun!
Security word "bird-when"
lol
LL, Southampton says...
1:58pm Sun 22 Feb 09
LL, Southampton says...
2:01pm Sun 22 Feb 09
And Boris...you really must be a sad peson to equate a pillow fight with handbag snatching...maybe if more youngsters got involved in innocent stuff like this there would be less of the nasty stuff going on
Ali F, Southampton says...
2:39pm Sun 22 Feb 09
Boris, 1 you have a habit of posting negative remarks on any articles on this website, would recommend a new hobby maybe stamp collecting.
2 what happened proves that young people can act in an un yobbish way, for a young person to organise 100 people in a hugely public place, with hundreds of people around, to have a pillow fight and cause no harm, damage or offensive? He should be congratulated not criticised.
Maybe it proves that not all young people should be tarred with the same brush that people who believe the tabloid crap that is shoved down their throats are doing constantly
King Mush, Woolston says...
2:52pm Sun 22 Feb 09
Neophlegm, says...
3:19pm Sun 22 Feb 09
If any doubters out there who think we're yobs would like to actually MEET us before jumping to ill-conceived conclusions, please ask!
teamgreen, southampton says...
3:32pm Sun 22 Feb 09
Georgem, Southampton says...
4:07pm Sun 22 Feb 09
MSwinner, Epsom Downs says...
8:55pm Sun 22 Feb 09
itsmehere wrote:Well done to who-ever organised the Pillow fight. I say down with the recession and up with your pillows. Boris, remember how much fun pillow fights were when you were a kid? Take your pillow out shopping next Saturday, it could all just happen again....
lmao sounds like fun
JamieC, says...
10:04pm Sun 22 Feb 09
Love it!
This is going to be the catchphrase of the next pillow fight.
teamgreen, southampton says...
11:06pm Sun 22 Feb 09
Denzil', Chilworth says...
10:11am Mon 23 Feb 09
tandemstoker, Albion says...
11:44am Mon 23 Feb 09
FYI I am well beyond yob age but have participated in a world wide flashmob for geocachers.
http://www.dailyecho
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bramblybun, Southampton says...
9:48am Thu 26 Feb 09
There is too much doom and gloom around Southampton at the moment so anything that lightens the atmosphere and gets people talking is a good thing. I hope I catch the next one.
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