Desert Bus For Hope
On November 23, 2007, comedy group LoadingReadyRun started a marathon game session of Desert Bus called "Desert Bus for Hope" to raise money for the charity Child's Play. The four-man team took turns playing the game continuously, with more hours added as more donations were made. As of the end of the event on November 28, 2007, $22,805 had been raised, including donations from Penn and Teller themselves. The total play time for the effort reached four days and twelve hours. James Turner of LoadingReadyRun.com has played over 30 hours during the marathon session and holds the record for the longest session with breaks. LoadingReadyRun had earned 6 points until they crashed.
LoadingReadyRun officially started their second marathon run of Desert Bus (dubbed "Desert Bus 2: Bus Harder") on November 28, 2008. The total play time reached five days, five hours, and five minutes, and raised a total of $70,423.79.
The third marathon run started on November 20, 2009. Over $9,500 was donated within the first hour. Just shy of 24 hours of starting the third run, the total for the first year was passed. Driver James Turner bussed for twelve hours as part of a challenge he placed a few months before the start of the event. If $10,000 was raised before the end of his first shift he would drive for twelve hours straight. The drivers reached a record-breaking fourteen points until they crashed. The marathon finished after five days and sixteen hours, having raised a total of $140,449.68. They have now raised a total of $233,678.47 over the past three years.
A fourth year began on November 19, 2010. The event raised $50,000 after two days and $100,000 after four. The marathon managed to raise $207,540.06 alone.
The fifth year began on November 18, 2011 and the crew started bussing with over $10,000 raised before the game was turned on. By the 24 hours mark the event already raised $43,000, and over $100,000 after two days. The marathon raised $376,253.01 alone, with a lifetime total of $819,330.01.
Desert Bus 6 began on November 16, 2012. On November 19 at 6:46pm the fundraiser crossed the 1 million lifetime donation total. After 6 days and 8 hours of driving the run concluded at 5:00AM PST on Friday, November 23 raising a total of $443,127.52 bringing their lifetime total raised to $1,269,279.62 over 6 years.
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