As I’ve traveled around the past nine years I’ve found myself in Target wearing a red polo, in Hastings wearing a green polo, and in Best Buy wearing a blue polo. If you’re not sure the significance of this I’ll tell you that in each instance, wearing just such colors in just such stores will get you mistaken for a store employee, at least once, usually more, every time it happens. So, the question becomes, what if 80 people were to get together and do this on purpose? Well, it happened in New York City recently, set up by the group Improv Everywhere. You can read all about thier
“mission” including photographs and video of the “event”. Here’s my favorite quote from the mission report:
“Agent EMartin’s Xbox video camera rig was discovered when an employee approached him to offer advice on how to return his Xbox. He was asked to leave, and then detained by security at the front door. There a manager claimed it was ‘illegal’ to film in Best Buy and instructed someone to call 911. She informed him that he had violated her ‘civil rights’ by filming in her store. Agent Nicholson, who had been taking photos at the hip to avoid detection was caught as well, but he was able to leave the store freely.”
