{"id":676,"date":"2008-02-29T20:26:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T01:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=676"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:31:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:31:02","slug":"frozen-commuters-at-berri-uqam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/02\/29\/frozen-commuters-at-berri-uqam\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen commuters at Berri-UQAM"},"content":{"rendered":"

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=53jXg7kUqRU[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

Overlooking a sunny Victoria Harbour<\/a> and enjoying the perfect spring breeze blowing in from an open window, it’s hard to bring my mind back to Montreal’s late-February drudgescape, but I’ll do it for this week-old video. Last Saturday, blogger and journalist Steve Faguy checked out a flash mob at Berri-UQAM<\/a>. “About 50-60 people showed up, then entered the metro station and gathered in the area around the puck on the mezzanine. For five minutes, they all stood frozen, quiet, as regular travellers passed them by,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

The Journal de Montr\u00e9al sent a reporter to cover the big freeze:<\/p>\n

Au d\u00e9clenchement d’un signal, \u00e0 18h15, tous les complices ont stopp\u00e9 net, fig\u00e9s sur place pendant cinq minutes dans des postures et des expressions des plus vari\u00e9es.<\/p>\n

Surpris, plusieurs usagers du m\u00e9tro sont rest\u00e9s bouche b\u00e9e, ayant du mal \u00e0 comprendre ce qui se passait autour d’eux.<\/p>\n

\u00abExcusez-moi\u00bb, a demand\u00e9 une dame en tirant la manche du repr\u00e9sentant du Journal, m\u00eal\u00e9 \u00e0 la foule. \u00abVous savez ce qui se passe?\u00bb, a-t-elle interrog\u00e9 d’un regard amus\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Les employ\u00e9s du m\u00e9tro, qui ne se doutaient visiblement de rien, ont pein\u00e9 \u00e0 comprendre ce qui se produisait. Il fallait voir leur regard estomaqu\u00e9 lorsque, apr\u00e8s cinq minutes d’immobilit\u00e9, les participants ont recommenc\u00e9 \u00e0 bouger, lan\u00e7ant une salve d’applaudissements avant de se disperser dans toutes les directions.<\/p>\n

Il a fallu de longues secondes apr\u00e8s la fin de l’\u00e9v\u00e9nement pour que l’action reprenne son cours normal dans la station.<\/p>\n

La troupe s’est ensuite r\u00e9unie dans un parc situ\u00e9 non loin, pour se f\u00e9liciter de la r\u00e9ussite de leur entreprise.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Organizers are already talking about holding more events so keep an eye on the event’s Facebook page<\/a>. <\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> Faguy wrote an article on the freeze<\/a> for today’s Gazette and he’s posted a couple of additional videos<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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