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[Trailhead?] Blackhand Corporation

[The Barmaid]

That looks quite intriguing actually.

Wonder how one might join in the potential fun of becoming a lab rat for this research?

Brief, random, lazy style search for

[Six]

Following this as well... sending survey back as we speak.

[The Barmaid]

Spoke too soon...

quick google for Blackhand Corporation net this right up top

http://www.starportgame.com/wiki/index.php/The_Black_Hand

[kevinmhk]

The wiki link you posted is about a multi-player strategy and action game... Is it a coincidence that they share the same name "The Black Hand" ?

[The Barmaid]

Weeeeelllll shit....

Secret Serbian society formed in 1911 primarily by army officers, which used terrorist methods to promote the liberation of Serbs outside Serbia from Habsburg or Ottoman rule. It conducted propaganda campaigns, organized armed bands in Macedonia, and established revolutionary cells throughout Bosnia. Within Serbia it dominated the army and wielded tremendous influence over the government. It gained its greatest notoriety with the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in 1914. After a trial in 1917, three leaders were executed and more than 200 were imprisoned. The name also referred to several extortion rackets run by immigrant Sicilian and Italian gangsters in the Italian communities of many large U.S. cities c. 1890 – 1920. Local merchants and wealthy individuals would receive threatening notes printed with black hands, daggers, or other menacing symbols that demanded money on pain of death or destruction of property. It declined with the beginning of Prohibition and large-scale bootlegging.



and of course the always heartwarming


Black Hand, symbol and name for a criminal and terroristic secret society, and especially associated with the Mafia and the Camorra. The Black Hand flourished in Sicily in the late 19th cent., and in the United States it was especially active in New York City at the beginning of the 20th cent. It is estimated that at one time 90% of New York City's Italian population was blackmailed by letters threatening death and marked with a black hand. Famous incidents associated with the Black Hand include the murder (1890) in New Orleans of chief of police Daniel Hennessy and the shooting (1909), in Palermo, Italy, of Lt. Joseph Petrosino of the New York City police.


http://www.answers.com/topic/black-hand







And I sent off the recruiting email right before I tripped over this!

[kevinmhk]

What, you are being recruited by real terrorists?

[The Barmaid]

They're pretty quick on the draw, what with all that joystick terrorist secret society and whatnot


j/k Got this just now

[qa0s]

My reply e-mail was slightly different.


Marc S.!

Thank you for contacting The Blackhand Corporation!
We will review your information and you will be contacted by a representative shortly.

Buona fortuna,
The Blackhand Corp.

[Six]

Recieved the same email, but signed "Bonne chance." (French for Good Luck.)

[Six]

Replied and asked where they are located, almost instantly received this reply:

[qa0s]

Asked for a number to reach them at and got (206) 279-3158. This is a list of all the areas that are in the 206 area code (granted, the list is from Wikipedia, but should be legit):

Bainbridge Island
Burien
Des Moines
Lake Forest Park
Mercer Island
SeaTac
Seattle
Shoreline
Tukwila
Vashon
Woodway

[Ifsogirl81]

i was denied oh well they said to keep the email handy they may have something else for me

[The Barmaid]

I've heard nothing so far....but I see Phx is on the list.

I could definitely represent for the desert southwest...it's pretty close by ;-P


Let's see what they're recruiting for.


EDIT - reverse lookup shows it originates in Seattle, Wa. No specifics though. Oh and a landline, not a cell. If that matters.

[Nighthawk]

This is freaky... No more than 48 hours ago I had an idea for a future game that involved an organization named the "Black Hand" *and* time travel.

Thieves!