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Hapless Victims Send Embarassing BBM and Text Messages for Cash

Categories: BlackBerry, Random, Videos
By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 at 6:51 AM

RIM and CollegeHumour teamed up for a funny little game show where they offered a hundred bucks cash to folks who would spin this wheel and send whatever message it landed on to a BlackBerry contact of the hosts’ chosing. Flipping a coin determined whether it would be a BlackBerry Messenger or text message, and the poor contestants had to wait 5 minutes before they could explain to their contacts that it was all a part of some gag.

Neat idea – there are definiitely a few funny ones in there. Take a watch!

[via VideoFantastica]

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