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Californians bare bottoms for passing trains
Up to 10,000 people show up each year to bare their behinds to passing Amtrak trains
The southern Californian city of Laguna Niguel has been enjoying an annual ritual, in which locals and visitors bare their bottoms at passing trains.
For 30 years, the city has hosted "Mooning Amtrak" as crowds line up along the railway tracks, dropping their trousers when a train passes by.
Up to 10,000 people take part, and visitors are encouraged to leave their cars at home and arrive by train.
Local legend has it the tradition began in 1979, after a bar room bet.
A drinker at the Mugs Away Saloon, which stands directly across the road from the railway, offered to buy a drink for anyone who would run outside and moon at the next train.
One customer took him at his word, and a ritual was born.
Wazungu hawako sawa hata kidogo nimeipata hii katika kuvinjari BBC News
Up to 10,000 people show up each year to bare their behinds to passing Amtrak trains
The southern Californian city of Laguna Niguel has been enjoying an annual ritual, in which locals and visitors bare their bottoms at passing trains.
For 30 years, the city has hosted "Mooning Amtrak" as crowds line up along the railway tracks, dropping their trousers when a train passes by.
Up to 10,000 people take part, and visitors are encouraged to leave their cars at home and arrive by train.
Local legend has it the tradition began in 1979, after a bar room bet.
A drinker at the Mugs Away Saloon, which stands directly across the road from the railway, offered to buy a drink for anyone who would run outside and moon at the next train.
One customer took him at his word, and a ritual was born.
Wazungu hawako sawa hata kidogo nimeipata hii katika kuvinjari BBC News