Improv Everywhere pranks Best Buy
This is pretty funny. A group of around 80 people dressed in blue shirts and khaki pants infiltrated a Best Buy store and assisted customers…until the store employees noticed one of their hidden cameras, freaked out and called the cops.
The idea for this mission was submitted by a stranger via email. Agent Slavinsky wrote in to suggest I get either a large group of people in blue polo shirts and khakis to enter a Best Buy or a group in red polo shirts and khakis to enter a Target. Wearing clothing almost identical to the store’s uniform, the agents would not claim to work at the store but would be friendly and helpful if anyone had a question. There aren’t any Targets in Manhattan, so I decided to go with the two-story Best Buy on 23rd Street.
August 24th, 2006 at 10:57
[...] Improv Everywhere (the group that invaded Best Buy earlier this year, previously posted here) strikes again. This time they got over 200 people to shop in slow motion inside Home Depot, and captured some hilarious videos. After everyone had assembled I revealed the mission details. We would sychronize our watches and then walk over to Home Depot and shop. At exactly 4:15 we would all begin moving in slow motion. We’d do that for five minutes, and then shop normally for five minutes as if nothing had happened. At exactly 4:25 we would all freeze in place for five minutes. When that was over we would go back to normal and eventually leave the store. [...]