No Pants on the light rail this Sunday

I do appreciate your scientific approach toward ensuring diverse sampling, though. ^_~

No, no. Go back and ask her, "Have you ever had an experience of being groped, or assaulted, or sexually harassed by someone while you were on public transit?" When the answer to that is "yes," because it will be, follow up with, "And were you wearing pants at the time, or were you just hanging out in your undies?" Then see what she says. I don't have much in the way of cash money, but I'll bet it all on her answer being, "I was wearing pants."

I said what I said tongue in cheek. :) Sorry it came across any different. Text is a hard way to convey certain emotions. I meant no offense.

What a terrific metaphor for a transportation system to nowhere operating 13 million in the hole.We have all lost our pants ..............and our shirts!

Well I read your response and, upon asking the first woman about the pants-factor, I was told, "of course." She was also wearing pants, so that might have affected the outcome. I will go look for a pantsless woman and get back to you though.

Yeah, worked up though Chris may be, I'm with him here. Sexual battery isn't caused by people not wearing pants; it's caused by rapists and predators. And if wearing pants prevented predators from groping or assaulting or harassing people on public transit, maybe you'd have a point, but ask any woman you know whether that's the case. (Spoiler alert: she will tell you that it's not the case.)

No, actually; that's an insane thing to say, and I never said it. Jesus, you're wound up about this. What I did say is that I don't know why anyone thinks this is a good idea. I don't know how much time you actually spend in your life on public transit, but I ride multiple forms multiple times a day, and I've seen far too much of what other people leave on those seats to go anywhere near them in my skivvies. On the list of Places to Which I Would Like to Go Sans-Pants, public transit vehicles are really, really far down on the list. I honestly might go dumpster diving first. This isn't an issue of you and your ever-so-enlightened pantsless cohorts just being far too liberal and open-minded and fun-loving for the tastes of your hopelessly straight-laced, suffocatingly pedestrian fellow Twin Citizens; this is an issue of public transit being gross. I love it, I rely on it, and I'm glad it's there, but it's gross. But maybe fewer people are pissing in Metro Transit light rail seats, or leaving needles on them, or smearing food on them, or sweating on them, or pooping on them, or smoking crack on them than they are on Muni or BART. I note that no one's planning a pantsless ride on the 2 down Franklin in the middle of a weekday, so maybe that's the case--that light rail is still new and nice enough for this to be less gross than it eventually will be.

We've gotten many great reactions to this... We had an airline pilot board the train one year, look around, and say "If I wasn't in uniform, I'd join in."

It's no less sanitary than the summer time when all of those hot and sweaty people wearing shorts board the train and sit down. In fact, it is probably much cleaner this way since there is still clothing between skin and seats and a lot less of the sweatiness.

Your loss. :)

The only way the "inevitable sexual battery" would occur, is if narrow-minded people who post about "inevitable sexual battery" were to show up. Thank (insert your favorite deity's name here) that never happens!

They do every year after this happens. :)

Always. Every time something like this happens, it degenerates into a mindless sex party. EVERY. TIME.

Those people are obviously a bunch of class-less degenerates who have nothing better to do than cause major issues in other people's lives... They should all be shot. Right?

Exactly... People are strange.

I don't know why people think this is a good idea. Granted, the light rail was impressively clean last time I was there, but just--no, you guys. No in Minneapolis, no in LA, no in SF. No, anywhere you want to do this. There is nothing about public transit that should ever encourage the removal of pants.

what a bunch of weirdos

By the way: http://www.facebook.com/events/463941430319751/?ref=ts&fref=ts

Sounds like an orgy.

Sounds fun! Wish I could attend.

I love all of the negativity that people post when they read about this. They are all like "Gross" or "dumb" etc... Don't attend if this isn't your type of thing. But don't hate on what other people do for fun. This doesn't harm you in any way, so why all the hate?

I like it. But I will not be attending.

Dumb!

I can't imagine who when they pick up tourists at the airport they're gonna think..HA HA HA!!

Soooo, they are wearing shorts in the winter. Got it.

Can't wait for City Page's coverage on the inevitable sexual battery.

Gross. Make sure they provide antibacterial wipes.

Never.

And MetCouncil will report that the light rail had it's highest ridership since it's inception.

NOPE!