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Gateway Goes Off Deep End, Offers $4500 PC Rig for Best Video Stunt

Today Gateway announces its "Show Your Spots" contest, inviting any and all "thrill-seeking technology lovers willing to perform and film a crazy stunt" to win a $4,500 high-performance computer setup. Yikes.

Now I've heard that in this day and age, some folks are inclined to do silly things and even shoot video of them. Most corporations tend to look the other way, a few might frown on it, but we didn't think any actually encouraged it.

Nevertheless Gateway is planning to give away a $3,000 FX540XT machine and one of the coolest monitors in the world, the 30-inch 1600p XHD3000 with Silicon Optix Realta HQV upscaling to the best video submitter. The contest's only main rules are that a) the video must be under 3 minutes and b) it must feature "a genuine or fake Holstein cow." Yep, you are completely bananas, Gateway.

While this contest is in no way affiliated with Gizmodo, any of you ballsy submitters out there can feel free to CC your craziest works to our tips line as well. [Gateway Contest]

6:00 AM on Thu Jan 31 2008
By Wilson Rothman
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Walter at 07:03 AM on 01/31/08
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2 questions:
1) Did the snake eat the cow because that would be a commercial I wouldn't mind watching
2) Why is there a while version of Dr. Shockles from Grandmas Boy in the background?
huygir at 08:42 AM on 01/31/08
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A Lawsuit in the making.
jdhuck at 08:45 AM on 01/31/08
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Isn't that Manny the shark guy in the pic?
Hiphopopotamus at 08:51 AM on 01/31/08
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I call dibs on Two Girls, One Cow
sgodun at 08:57 AM on 01/31/08
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Any time I hear about a "crazy stunt" contest I'm reminded of a story I heard about 15 years ago. Allegedly there was a radio station looking to give away a pair of concert tickets to whoever did the craziest stunt. One guy dressed up in black, put on a ski mask and got a shotgun loaded with blanks. He charged into the radio station, fired into the air a couple of times and yelled out, "I'M JESUS CHRIST!!!"

After a few screams and a moments of panic, he took the mask off and asked, "Do I win the tickets?"
radeon21 at 09:15 AM on 01/31/08
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@sgodun:

Did he win the tickets?
Rajio at 09:23 AM on 01/31/08
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This is going to end in tears.
ps61318 at 10:10 AM on 01/31/08
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Mooooooaaaarrrrrrggghhhhhhhhhhhh.....
ps61318 at 10:19 AM on 01/31/08
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@Hiphopopotamus: Got milk?
lpxxfaintxx at 10:38 AM on 01/31/08
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@jdhuck: Yea, its a scene from Jackass 2.
Kaiser-Machead at 10:40 AM on 01/31/08
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How much you guys wanna bet that someone sent in a picture of himself humping his jersey cow.
TJ at 11:24 AM on 01/31/08
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Does it count if I paint my girlfriend's sweater cows in black and white spots? On second thought, it's a Gateway...
ANoel at 11:27 AM on 01/31/08
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This doesn't make sense.

Q: "Does Gateway have the Geek Nature?"
A: "Moo"
Juggrnott at 12:51 PM on 01/31/08
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the cow = gateway logo so I will dress up as a gateway "One" with wings like the coyote in road runner and jump off a skyscraper. into a tiny cup of water. then forget the computer when I die from the stupid stunt my family will be rich muuuaaahhhhahahahahah
jdhuck at 02:32 PM on 01/31/08
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@lpxxfaintxx: Thanks I must have missed that movie.
fudged71 at 03:11 PM on 01/31/08
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I'm going to catch a bullet in my teeth !
vicsells at 03:47 PM on 01/31/08
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HERE IS THE BIG QUESTION: What person that would have any use for a high performance computer can possibly have any access to cows??