NetIP Dallas World Record Breaking Community Service Event

by Vishal Bagchi, Community Service Pillar Chair, Network of Indian Professionals Dallas

Who knew that by throwing a pie (or three) at others could help The Dallas Animal Advocates (DAA) raise money and break a World Record?!?   Well the NetIP Dallas Community Service Pillar and their members helped make this possible on Thursday, January 7, 2010 at their first community service event of the decade.  This was a once in a lifetime opportunity that had been offered to DAA to assist them in raising much needed funds to support their primary programs (fences for tethered dogs in the City of Dallas and heartworm funds for HW+ dogs at Dallas Animal Services).   A minimum of 300 volunteers were needed to handle the actual pie throwing for a Dalton-based Shaw Industries, the world’s largest carpet manufacture. For each 100 volunteers, Dallas Animal Advocates earned $2,500.

The pie fight took place for 60-seconds at Embassy Suites Outdoor World in Grapevine, Texas in DFW, and had 434 people and 1,200 pies of various flavors including cherry, chocolate and apple in a 3,750 square feet tent.  The event, although messy, with pie getting in places you don’t want to know, was successful in breaking the record for The World’s Largest Pie Fight, certified by Guinness World Records.
Shaw’s Guinness World Records achievement shattered the previous Largest Pie Fight world record of 269 participants, which was set by the television show “LIVE! With Regis and Kelly” on Sept. 17, 2009. In connection with the pie fight event, Shaw is making a monetary donation to a local affiliate of Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic-relief hunger charity. The company’s donation will provide up to 70,000 meals for hungry Americans.

For more information about this GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS Largest Pie Fight achievement or to view pie fight video, visit www.shawfloors.com/anso/piefight.

NetIP Dallas has another record setting Saturday of Service planned for April where they will participate in multiple community service events in one day.  For more information please visit www.NetIP-Dallas.org or www.Facebook.com/NetIPDallas.

Edited by Latha Nehru, VP of External Affairs, NetIP NA, www.NetIP.org

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