Improvisation can land you in trouble, as participants in the recent “No Pants Gautrain Ride”, organised via social media to co-inside with the global “No Pants Subway Ride”, found out the hard way. News reports suggest that the management of the Gautrain prescribes a dress code these days (participants were fined R700 each for wearing the “wrong clothing”) and doesn’t take kindly to people who believe a bit of public theatre every now and again can contribute to our social space