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Invisible Dog Walkers Invade Cobble Hill

Yesterday the Improv Everywhere gang took 2,000 dogs for a walk in the Cobble Hill area of Brooklyn. Invisible dogs, that is. You remember those old invisible dog toys, right? Turns out the circa-1970s toy was manufactured in a Brooklyn factory, which now contains the Invisible Dog art space! The space loaned the pranksters the vintage dog leashes for their afternoon of good clean fun; and if you want one yourself they still seem to be for sale online. More photos from Katie Sokoler, here.

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  • jaycjay

    My favorite thing about NYC is that it will always have plenty of people doing things that will annoy all you whiners.

  • CR

    Like most things Improv Anywhere this isn't that interesting. All of their stuff is very... Leno-ish (i.e. my mom would think it's funny, and so would her friends, but I'm not gonna get serious yuks out of it...)

  • efg72

    Did anyone take photographs of the dogs? :-)

  • koishi

    My friend kicked 3 of the puppies and I made yelping noises. People across the street laughed and the dog walkers were very upset. HA!

  • Think2wice

    The little tow-headed kids were cute, but that dog was freaking out...lahk he wuz FREEEAAKIN' OUT MAAAAAAAN!

  • JRod5417

    I saw them everywhere yesterday and, I must say, it made an otherwise dreary Sunday more cheerful. Seriously, you people need to lighten up.

  • JacqueMehoff

    OK, this one is fail for IE.

    these things were stupid back then and they're stupid now.

    they were sold by a vendor at the San genaro feast the first time I've seen them. sounds like a staple item at street fairs and flea markets.

  • greenermjr

    This was funny. Funny like a fake moustache. I saw a couple of guys on Atlantic Avenue in what I would call Boerum Hill. The miming is the best part.



    A very different sort of funny than the fake funeral.

  • timmmyk

    They lost me when the staged a fake funeral and crashed it. Utterly insipid and totally inappropriate.

  • Meddling Mage

    I do hope you know that the whole Funeral gag was an APRIL FOOLS joke right?

  • zodak

    hipsters

  • pastoralia

    I saw these idiots on 5th Ave in Park Slope too.

  • NannyState

    Invisible humor.

  • razzledazzle

    hahaha! +100



    The only way this would be funny is if they were all invisible seeing-eye dogs.

  • matty

    That would actually be funny. And it would be funnier if all of them said to strangers "have you seen my dog? no, neither have i!" rofl!

  • yytttt

    It sure is hard making sarcastic comments on the internet. What funny peice of perfomance art did you think up this weekend? Or were you watching football on tv?

  • matty

    I was watching football on TV

  • yytttt

    Anything good happen? I missed it, I was walking invisible dogs around Brooklyn.

  • Teddie Boy Eddie

    Really? You weren't watching the barcodes steamroll Ipswitch?

  • yytttt

    I hadn't seen a free kick like R. Taylor's since Robert was on the teamsheet about 6 years ago.

  • radiomaven

    To be a stickler all these photos seem to be on Smith Street, which is considered part of Boerum Hill and not Cobble Hill. But whatevs invisible dogs walk on invisible neighborhood boundaries.

  • duckumu

    they were all over court st too. and some say that smith -- at least the west side of smith -- belongs to cobble hill (though i agree it technically ends at court).

  • Kaylee

    Stupid.

  • valeriob

    +1

  • matty

    hey everyone, let's all stand on our heads! all at once! hahah!!

  • yytttt

    How many were arrested for unlawful assembly? Did they have a permit for 2,000 invisible dogs?

  • americaonline

    The more I hear about improv everywhere the more i dislike them.

  • yytttt

    I'm certain the feeling is mutual.

  • TheKlaus

    Normally, the Improv Everywhere stuff makes me wince, but this actually cracked me up.



    I am pretty sure the guy in the first pic is Rob Lathan. I have always liked him... this video in particular



    http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c12b6ef315/permanent-nutface-gary-from-rob-lathan

  • Rocknrope

    Funny, I had the opposite reaction - this stunt really annoyed me more than their typical antics for some reason.

  • matty

    "I'm in with the in-crowd, I go where the in-crowd goooes!!!!"

  • jaycjay

    So it'd seem. The Gothamist commenter in-crowd. "Whah! Hipsters! People doing things that don't interest me!"

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