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Apr 12

Blackberry thinks Canadians are dumb!

If the potential Winner resides in Canada, he/she will be required to answer a time-limited, mathematical skill-testing question without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, which will be administered by Sponsor at a pre-arranged mutually convenient time, before being declared a winner.

If you've seen Research In Motion's new haiku contest (#PlayBookHaiku), you might learned that it's open to legal residents of the U.S. and Canada. But unless you read the fine print (see above) on the BlackBerry site regarding eligibility, you might not know that those dumb Canadians apparently have to prove themselves worthy before getting the prize!

How is this real? It's gotta be a joke. The legal department at RIM must've been drunk when they penned this.

BIG props to @thejoemoore for discovering this!

UPDATE: From the twitterstream, somebody said this is Canadian law. That actually makes this funnier. The legal department at RIM isn't drunk, it's the regulators in Canada who are hitting the bottle a bit too much!

About Dan McDonough, Jr.

Dan used to be chief executive of elauwit. Now he's just another dude. Check him out on twitter at www.twitter.com/danmcdonough or on linkedin at www.linkedin.com/in/danmcdonoughjr.

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