Halliburton Falls Victim To Pranksters Touting $100M “SurvivaBall” Suits

http://washingtontimes.com/business/20060511-110534-5777r.htm

Yes Men pull Halliburton hoax

By Jen Haberkorn

THE WASHINGTON TIMES
May 12, 2006

Halliburton Co. fell victim this week to a group of pranksters pushing a "SurvivaBall" to save corporate executives from the effects of global warming.
    Members of the Yes Men, a group of environmental and corporate ethics activists, gave a presentation at a trade conference pretending to be Halliburton executives touting large inflatable suits that provide corporate managers safety from global warming. They also distributed a phony press release through e-mail and set up a Web site, halliburtoncontracts.com, similar to the real Halliburton site, halliburton.com.
  
  "It's basically a giant inflatable orb," said a Yes Man posing as "Fred Wolf of Halliburton" during a phone interview yesterday. "If catastrophe threatens a large population, the business manager simply enters the orb, puts it on, and it protects him or her in any climate condition, whether it involved tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, ice conditions or heat conditions."
   
 The Yes Men posted photos of the products, which look like large plastic bubbles with six hands, two speakerphone-looking ears and an opening for the executive's face
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Here are shots of the suits:

http://halliburtoncontracts.com/about/history.html

And I would almost pay money to see Chimp & Dick decked out in their ball suits!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

Modern day Merry Pranksters.

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...and promosed to pay damages to the victims of Bhopal (causing the real Union Carbide to have to come out and say 'No, we won't pay damages to the victims of Bhopal').

Tip of the Hat to the Yes Men!

I spotted this prank miles away, yet, these corporate sycophants ate it up in big mouthfuls, all because they wanted a way to save their sorry no good asses when the rest of society dies off.

I hope they have slow an miserable deaths

:hippie::silly::patriot: :headbang: :applause: :rofl:

Tahoe campaign brought mention to being infilitrated by environmentalists, this is bringing needed attention. (Not to mention both were very funny)