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Halliburton Falls Victim To Pranksters Touting $100M "SurvivaBall" Suits That Protect Corporate Execs From Global Warming...

First Posted: 3/28/08 Updated: 5/25/11

The Washington Times:

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.

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