International Pillow Fight Day 2012
Streets in 115 cities across 39 countries lay littered with
feathery debris after the coordinated fifth annual International Pillow
Fight Day organized as part of the Urban Playground Movement on April 7,
2012. From Europe to Asia, America to the Middle East, thousands took
up arms and gathered in public squares to batter complete strangers in
the name of fun.
People attend a flash-mob pillow fight during International Pillow Fight Day on April 7, 2012 in Stockholm.
A
small group turned up for a pillow fight at People Square in Shanghai
but were asked to stop after five minutes by local police.
A police officer tries to stop a pillow fight at People Square in Shanghai.
People fight in Washington Square Park in New York.
This young participant gets a boost in Budapest.
The feathers fly in Trafalgar Square in London.
People throw their pillows up in the air in Taipei.
Makhaya
Campbell (centre, white top), 7, swings his pillow at another
participant in Waterloo Public Square in Waterloo, Ont.
A woman plays with her dog amid feathers strewn across a lawn at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
Pillow-fighting at Trafalgar Square in London.
A man laughs during a fight at Washington Square Park, in New York.
Participants fight in Stockholm.
Feathers are piled up outside a cafe at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
Municipal workers clean up feathers after the fight at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin