People Trusting Uniforms

[pegkerr]

Gacked from Bruce Schneier here: An improv group in New York dressed similarly to Best Buy employees and went into a store, secretly video taping the results.

Security guards and managers started talking to each other frantically on their walkie-talkies and headsets. "Thomas Crown Affair! Thomas Crown Affair!," one employee shouted. They were worried that were using our fake uniforms to stage some type of elaborate heist. "I want every available employee out on the floor RIGHT NOW!"

Read the entry. It's hilarious.

Rob works at CompUSA. I'll have to ask him how he thinks the management would react if somebody tried it at his store.

Edited to add: You can follow the exploits of "Improv Everywhere" by friending improv_evrywhre

Comments

[hermione-like.livejournal.com]

My brother and I were at Best Buy yesterday and he told me about this. Have you read the one about the Moebius strip yet? Hilarious! I'd probably die laughing if people did that in my cafe.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Yes! I was reading about their exploits on their site, and I laughed very hard at that one.