Two half-naked attention grabbing events took place this weekend! As you may have heard, or unfortunately witnessed, crazy kids in New York, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco dropped trou on public transport Sunday as part of the annual "No Pants Subway Ride." Meanwhile, in Germany, members of the country's Pirate Party -- an offshoot of Sweden's Piratpartiet, aka those that are cool with file-sharing -- stripped down to their undies and hit airports in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Dusseldorf on Sunday to protest the implementation of full body scanners in airports.
The former event was organized by an apolitical group, Improv Everywhere, with a simple mission that seeks to cause "scenes of chaos and joy in public places," and the latter was arranged by a fringe political party on the rise, but both have one key element in common: using partially clothed young people to attract attention! But who attracted the most attention? To the internets...
Searching for the query "no pants subway ride" versus "german airport naked" yields the following results:
In google news: "no pants subway ride" = 544 results "german airport naked" 127 results
In google trends: "no pants subway ride" = 489 results "german airport naked" = 2,370 results (seems nudity and German airports have some history)
Twitter trends on trendistic.com "no pants subway ride" = max number of 126 tweets earlier this morning "german airport naked" = no tweets
So who wins? Well, given that we're querying in English and using google.com (American's google), both advantageous for the pantsless subway-riding team, we'll have to call it a tie.


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