Tea, Tennis, Faceless Aliens at Wimbledon

As the 2008 Wimbledon fortnight played itself out, the event offered all of its traditional trappings–immaculately mown grass, clean yellow tennis balls, breakfasts of strawberries and cream and well-dressed faceless alien androids.

The creepy spectators had already showed up at Harrods and other spots around London, but their persistent pop-ups at the All-England Tennis Club were by far their most public appearances. A couple of the world’s more ingenious media outlets reported that the figures weren’t really faceless and had pinholes in their masks for the actors’ eyes.

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