He won't share his real identity. Not yet, anyway. For now, the man known around the Florida Atlantic University campus as "Green Mann" enjoys the stunned reactions and awkward stares he gets as he dances around in a skintight, bright-green Spandex-esque costume.
He doesn't speak while wearing the green suit -- "Miming is VERY fun," he typed earlier today. In an interview conducted via email, he says he is promoting
environmentalism and "building a community of friends with one common interest, me."
He says he got the idea for the suit, which is the same type used in the show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (see the clip below), when he saw a man at another college campus holding a sign reading "U R AWESOME" and giving students high-fives. I encourage the people I meet to let loose and dance. I wish I had a green man running around campus my first two years."
"I have tried showering in my suit for fun," he says. "But I typically take it off when I leave campus."
" When I have a witty comment or a comeback to a diss someone threw at me and I can't say it," he says. "Ugh, it is so frustrating."
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