Power of crowdsourcing? Grand Rapids has a huge pillowfight.

[primesuspect]

Let me start this by saying that had I known this was going down, I may have made an attempt to get over there to get involved. At any rate, some dude on Facebook invited his 100 friends to meet him downtown for a pillow fight. Well, due to the power of Facebook, the thing blossomed into something more significant than 100 people..

Anybody for an Icrontic pillowfight? o.O... Continue reading (http://icrontic.com/news/power-of-crowdsourcing-grand-rapids-has-a-huge-pillowfight)

[Lincoln]

More of the story from the local station that carried the story <a href="http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=99194" rel="nofollow">here</a>.

[Buddy J]

I always thought this was called flashmobbing.

[Gargoyle]

Flashmobbing sounds about right. But usually I when I hear of flashmobbing events they have a better idea of how many people might show up. I think it's interesting that 10x as many people came as were invited.

Whatever you call it, it's awesome.

[TBonZ]

Hey, I'm sure I saw Keebler in there.

[Winfrey]

I say we do a pillow fight but with one giant mass of people wielding a giant pillow against another mass of people similarly equipped.

And as a precursor we can do the West Side story gang fight/sing/chant wherein everyone in Michigan comes running out of their homes to join in the fray.