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One of their weapons of choice is the bouncy ball and this (now declassified) video from midnight on April 1st, 2006 shows what happens when you throw ten thousand rubber bouncy balls down six flights of a stairwell.&lt;img src="http://channel9.msdn.com/463289/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0" height="1" width="1" alt="" /&gt;</description><comments>http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Throwing-Ten-Thousand-bouncy-balls-down-a-stairwell/</comments><link>http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/Throwing-Ten-Thousand-bouncy-balls-down-a-stairwell/</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:40:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/ch9/9/8/2/3/6/4/TenThousandBouncyBalls_ch9.wmv</guid><evnet:views>30063</evnet:views><evnet:viewtrackingurl>http://channel9.msdn.com/463289/WebViewBug.aspx?EVT=0</evnet:viewtrackingurl><evnet:previewtext>David Norris and Larry Osterman are classic Microsoft pranksters (watch their original Channel 9 interview for how they pranked Steve Ballmer, among others). 

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