Four Egyptian students were arrested in Cairo after filming themselves doing the wildly popular Harlem shake in their underwear.
Police spotted the semi-naked students doing public pelvic thrusts in a middle-class Cairo neighborhood on Saturday, AFP reports.
Their erratic dance moves didn’t impress the neighbors. An angry crowd tried to stop the students in their tracks.
Due to Egypt’s strict public indecency laws, the group is accused of committing a “scandalous act,” an official told AFP.
A larger team of youth (along with one meandering camel) managed to film all 30-seconds of the dance, despite being harassed by police throughout the shoot.
As dictated by the Internet, a lone dancer starts the video in the middle of the frame, enthusiastically shaking what his mother gave him — this time in front of the iconic Giza pyramids. His friend walks by behind him, leading a camel and yawning at the normalcy of it all.
But when the beat drops, the video explodes into a crazy mess of costumed, gyrating young people.
A half-naked man shows up in this video, too, fitting right into the melee in his white undies, gold hat and black bowtie.
The Daily Beast traced the viral dance craze back to a YouTube video posted by a group of Australian teenagers on Feb. 2. The original video has been viewed almost 16 million times.