Man, 73, organizes flash mob with 100 fellow pensioners through classified ad to show that old people 'can do exciting things too'

A 73-year-old man has proved he's still young at heart after organizing a flash mob with more than 100 fellow pensioners by placing a classified ad in his local paper.

Dick 'Flash Dance' Walker organized the senior citizen flash mob at a shopping center in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday night - and the hilarious routine was captured on camera.

Walker, a retired business owner, got the idea while watching YouTube videos of dancers taking part in flash mobs - where a group of people spontaneously breaks into dance in a public space.

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What's going on here? Pensioners gather at the Oakway Center in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday

Shaking it: The group breaks into a dance as part of a massive flash mob as rap music plays

'To be honest, I had a Scotch about 11 o'clock at night, and I was watching the Internet,' Walker told the Register Guard . 'I wanted to show that seniors could have a life and do exciting things like this.'

Rather than organizing the event online through social media, he opted for a more traditional route of placing an avert in the Sunday Oregon Life which included his email address.

He asked for people aged 60 and older to join him at the Oakway Center - and was stunned when he received 116 responses from people, some of whom were in their 80s.

The group practiced the dance for four months before they finally put on the show on Saturday.

Robert Schwartz, who instructed the group at the Eugene Dance Studio, switched on the music - 'I Got Rhythm' which then led to rapper Q-Tip's 'Take the Lead'.

Still got it: Women can be seen dancing in the flash mob, who had practiced the routine for four months



Having fun: Members of the group, pictured wiggling their behinds, had responded to an ad in a paper

Footage of the routine shows the elderly dancers milling around the center before waving their arms in the air, wiggling their behinds and singing along with the music.



'Everybody was nervous of course, but they all got in there,' Walker told KMTR. 'They're great! They're right on cue, they're doing a great job!'



He said the group is now discussing their next flash mob.



'Age is just a number,' he said. 'It’s really how you feel and how you think. I've never felt like I was 73 - never!'