Osama the bug
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Owner:
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Klammeraffe
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Released:
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Friday, September 19, 2003
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Origin:
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France
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Hi. I’m Osama, the travel bug.
Help me escape from George and Tony (the "good" bugs) just as my friend Saddam did!
See the instructions below to join the game!
You can win a prize of $50 / €50 if you’re the first geocacher to catch a bad bug with a good bug!
Check out the overview page at www.klammeraffe.org/~fritsch/bug/ for maps with all four bugs' status!
Where is Osama?
Once upon a time...
... there was a war in Afghanistan. A war to kick the medieval, religious Taliban regime off the country. And in particular, to get it back to Osama bin Laden. Who, according to the U.S. government, organized the airplane attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11,2001.
Unfortunately, Osama bin Laden seemes to have escaped.
Where is Saddam?
Once upon a time...
... there was a war in Iraq. Actually, two wars. The first one to kick Iraq out of Kuweit. The second one, to free Iraq from Saddam Hussein's regime and remove the potential of terrorists using Iraq's mass destruction weapons.
Unfortunately, Saddam escaped.
Find the bugs!
While the western world's prime investigators and fine agencies are looking for the two guys, you can hunt them for yourself using a GPS receiver.
Yes, this is about Geocaching - a global treasure hunt game based upon GPS positioning. To find out about Geocaching, you can consult these fine pages:
- The pages of Geocaching.com.
- The pages of Navicache.com.
The Game: Hunt the bugs
In Geocaching, you can chase so-called travel bugs. So they're a perfect toy for chasing Osama and Saddam! This game includes four travel bugs - George Bush, Tony Blair, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein - and tens of thousands of global geocaches, where they can hide!
Read all about travel bugs at Geocaching.com!
Goal of the game is to grab a pair of good & evil in the hands of the same owner. Whover gets a hold of George and Saddam, or Tony and Osama, or vice versa, being the first, wins the prize.
To make it harder, George and Tony will be released in the United States, while the bad guys get loose in - you guess it - Old Europe. So the travel bugs do have to travel before anyone can win.
Oh, and to make this a longer-lasting fun game, none of the four bugs can be possesed for more than a week by the same person, of he/she will not be recognized as the winner.
The Cast
George
Travel bug
George Bush is the president of the most powerful and rather broke country of the United States of America. He is seeking revenge and protection from world wide terrorism, collecting countries like Afghanistan and Iraq on his list of new long-term military commitments abroad.
Tony
Travel bug
Tony Blair, leader of what is left over of the British Empire, allied with George to fight terrorism and the press blaming them for going to war on forged intelligence reports.
Osama
Travel bug
Rich kid of Saudi oil billionaire, playing world politics from the back of a camel. Disapperad with no traces when allied troops invaded Afhganistan.
Saddam
Travel bug
Former Iraqi dictator, collector of inflatable tanks, mid-range missles and cash. Greatest skills are the pretention of possesion of weapons of mass destruction and disappearance on invasion.
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