Mass Pillow Fight in Berlin
Hundreds of young people assembled in front of Berlin’s
Brandenburg Gate on Sunday with the aim of breaking the world record for
the largest pillow fight. The action which started almost abruptly at
around 4 pm, took tourists, passersby and even the police by surprise as
they were engulfed in a blizzard of feathers.
“This is complete chaos, I love it!” exclaimed Taichi Nagai, a visitor from Japan who had unwittingly walked straight into the action.
The
event was organized with the goal of breaking the record for the largest
pillow fight in history, currently held by a group in Somerset,
England, which gathered 3,707 participants in 2008. Though official
numbers for Sunday’s Kissenschlacht have not yet been released, more
than 12,000 people responded to a Facebook event created by the pillow
fight’s organizers.
As quickly as it started, the action ended
soon thereafter. The mostly under 30 crowd dispersed after about an
hour, leaving the Brandenburg Gate with a snow-like covering under the
glow of the setting sun.
