Halloween is typically a night when local police can expect a few strange calls, and this year in London, six men dressed as pylons topped the list.



Officers in Kingston upon Thames, a borough in Southwest London, tweeted a photo with the details of this rather strange call. Dressed as traffic cones, the men decided to do as traffic cones do, proving they could have probably ditched the costumes and still be called “pylons.”

It was a pretty straightforward description from the dispatcher; “Males dress as traffic cones, blocking the road like traffic cones.”

Officers responded shortly after 4 A.M. and found a scene similar to the one captured by Twitter user @dtheochari.

“They were just standing in front of the taxi and the bus not letting them get past and taking pictures of themselves,” Dan Theochari told the Evening Standard. "I didn’t actually see the police I was waiting for a taxi but I saw it and it made me laugh.”

It was also all caught on video, even up to the time when police showed up to end the early-morning shenanigans.

The original tweet has been shared more than five hundred times.

It’s not the first time human pylons have blocked off traffic. Video from two other incidents can be seen here and here.

In 2014, some people in Scotland put their own spin on things, stopping cars while dressed as bowling pins. A police car even played along, slowly "throwing a strike" before the pins jumped back up singing Chumbawumba’s “Tubthumping.”