On April 12th at 6:30pm a German-wide flash mob called "Die In - Fukushima Wahnt!" took place. Flash mob is an unusual and often pointless-seeming activity that is done by a group of people in a public place. This particular flash mob isn't supposed to seem pointless though. Exactly four weeks after the earthquake caused the nuclear catastrophe at the Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan , this group activity is supposed to make a point: Fukushima is a warning - let's turn off all nuclear power plants. April 12th also turned out to be the day that, after another big aftershock, the category of the nuclear disaster was changed from 5 to 7, which was the rating for Chernobyl . Apparently initiated by Castor TV, people all over Germany laid down (as if dead) at 6:30pm and remained on the ground for 3 minutes with a radioactivity sign attached to their body. More videos from the various flash mobs can be seen on the Fukushima Mahnt Facebook page . The music in this video is from Soundtrack Pro. The attentive viewer may have noticed that I broke a rule with this video: I had Scott shoot a bit of footage with another camera (bird's eye view). Thank you, Scott! For the overly curious: the close up is of my BFF Erik. Thank you, Erik, for laying down on the dirty ground - against nuclear power and for my camera. Less