“Going to great lengths to congregate with strangers and carry out random acts – a craze known as flashmobbing – might not be everyone’s idea of fun. But 3,500 of its followers have just proved that the phenomenon is reaching record-breaking levels,” Helen McCormack reports for The Independent.

McCormack reports, “The participants gathered on the concourse of Paddington Station in London on Thursday evening, having received instructions on the internet to bring iPods loaded with the clubbers’ anthem ‘What You Do’ by Biig Bass. At 7.18pm precisely they began dancing with as much abandon as they could muster.”

McCormack reports, “One commuter, Danny Clifford, said: ‘It was the most bizarre and surreal experience of my life. The clock hit 7.18pm and suddenly the place erupted. Everyone was plugged into their MP3 players so there was no music to be heard.’”

Full article here.

Video (check out the guy who wasn’t in on it at the vid’s end):

Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHehPb-Wj40

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "coolfactor" for the heads up.]
Welcome to the social. In related news, yesterday in Seattle, Uncle Fester tried to hold a “flash mob” with Zune users, but it turned out to be just a “squirt alone.”