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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