Created in Birmingham

Not sure what to make of this but thought I’d put it up for your attention. Improv Everywhere is based in New York and

causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places

You may remember them from such missions as the rather wonderful Frozen Grand Central

Anyway, there are a couple of local spin-off groups, the most ‘active’ of which seems to be the West Midlands group on the Urban Prankster Network, although there hasn’t been any activity there for the past couple of months. There’s a Facebook group too, but that’s a closed affair so I’ve no idea how vibrant or otherwise it might be.

A bit of a flaky post info-wise, I know, but if you’re interested in this sort of thing those links might help you get started.

The next flash mob organised by Brumob is a “BANG” on December 5th at 2pm. Here are the instructions:

1) Gather at the location (to be revealed closer to the time) just before 2pm in a loose crowd.
2) At 2pm two members of the Brumob team will walk into the centre of the location and draw their fingers on each other.
3) In response pull you fingers on each other until a huge standoff is created. PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO WHISTLE FOR THIS ONE!
4) As the tension builds one of the original two will “shoot” the other shouting “BANG!”
5) This is your cue, let the shootout commence!
6) When you’re shot fall to the ground, the more gruesome and exaggerated the death the better. We all know that pretending to die is half the fun, and if people get too competitive this could go on for a VERY long time.
7) Stay on the floor (or slumped up against the phone box you clawed a while taking your final few breaths in this world) until everyone else is dead/gone.
8) If you find your self the sole survivor either tern your fingers on yourself or leave jubilantly (Brumob team suggest that skipping a little would add to the over all effect).
9) At this point disperse quickly and calmly in different directions.

If all goes to plan it should look a little like this:

or this:

I just home the police armed response teams aren’t out in force that day. Keep tabs on the Brumob site for final location details.

via somebody, I forget who.