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Southwest Gives Out Free Money In April Fool's Day Un-Joke

Google will write your e-mails for you, Zappos wants you to think vertically and ThinkGeek will sell you a unicorn in a can. Man, do we love April Fool's Day! But Southwest just had to go and be different by doing something that sounded like a prank, but wasn't.

Southwest is all about bringing the funny, but the $10,000 prizes they handed out to 21 employees were real as far as we can tell. The lucky recipients were chosen at random from a stack of in-house commendations, guaranteeing that at some point someone noticed these people doing a great job. Employees found out through "Deal or No Deal"-style suitcase messages, fake boarding passes and causing tears, jaw-dropping and a little jumping.

This was too cool to be mocked. Stay tuned for the Jaunted version of "Pennies from Heaven," in which oh, we're just kidding, sorry.

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