Awesome Flashmob

When their flight is delayed, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra decide to break the boredom with a impromptu rendition of the last movement of Dvořák’s American Quartet. This stuff never happens to us. (Thanks Aetherion!)

Shoppers and passersby at the Wallraf Square in Cologne, Germany were treated to a surprise performance of the Star Wars main theme by the WDR Symphony Orchestra. Busking like a boss.

Banco Sabadell celebrated its 130th anniversary by treating the locals to a surprise performance of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy by the Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès and various local choirs.

Last April, passengers aboard the Copenhagen Metro were treated to the classiest flash mob ever: a performance of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt by the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra.

Here’s how the Germans do flash mobs. A woman in a train starts laughing at something in her smartphone, setting off a manic chain of cackling that surely made new passengers feel creeped out.

Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Scorpion and Smoke attacked hapless citizens with their dance moves while blasting – what else? – the theme to Mortal Kombat. They should square off against the dance assassin.

See anything out of the ordinary in the picture? Neither did the woman. She sure as hell didn’t expect what happened next. Would the mall janitors have received the same response?

Yes, it’s an ad, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun: check out the reactions of passengers arriving at Heathrow’s International Terminal, who are given a welcome home to remember. (Thanks Seti!)

The Random Acts of Culture Initiative performed a pop-up rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah, to the delight of surprised shoppers at Macy’s in Philadelphia. (Thanks Jason!)

Hundreds of people in a Swiss flashmob suddenly collapsed in the street, to the horror of unwitting passersby, to mimic events in a potential nuclear meltdown and to protest nuclear power plants.