"CALLING ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT PROFESSIONALS!!
Tomorrow (December 5th) at 10:00 AM EST, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agencies (DARPA) will release ten 8-ft. red balloons at undisclosed locations throughout the US that will remain up until 4:00 PM. DARPA has offered $40,000 to the first person/group to submit accurate locations and balloon numbers for each balloon. Students from Mercyhurst College’s Institute for Intelligence Studies (MCIIS) have accepted this challenge, but they need your help.
Law enforcement patrols the streets to keep them safe and would be the first to notice the presence of a big red balloon. This is your opportunity to show the Feds the power and influence of the law enforcement community!
In exchange for being the FIRST to submit a simple email, phone call, or text containing the specific location and balloon number for any of the ten balloons, MCIIS will pay you $1,000 IF THEY WIN the contest.
Please see the flyer posted in the link below for more details on how to help. Please re-distribute, forward, and inform as many people as possible. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!"
http://sourcesandmethods.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-win-balloon-challenge-darpa.html
Thanks Deborah! You are a champ!
ReplyDeleteKris
Not to take anything away from our friends in blue, but... We think we have a team large enough to make it work, and few others do.
ReplyDeleteTeam DeciNena (think of the 80's song about 99 Red Balloons) is one of the best-organized and fastest growing, and we are now incorporating other teams into our web site and recruiting teams to join us if they feel they are too small to compete alone.
We are offering to share part of the prize money with all particpants who are active on Dec 5th, not JUST the actual balloon finder (who will receive a larger reward).
Join us, and tell all your friends. That's what the whole goal of the challenge is -- to build large teams quickly.
http://decinena.com