BLOOMFIELD HILLS -- People will do some crazy things just to make a buck.

Some Bloomfield Hills high schools students are proving that right now, but these kids have set their sights on making at least a couple thousand bucks.

Oddly enough, though, they don’t plan to keep one cent of the booty, but will turn it all over to the March of Dimes.

The students are in the midst of a 78-hour marathon fund raising show on radio station, WBFH-FM, a 10-watt non-commercial, educational radio station at Andover High School.

The first of seven disc jockeys at 6 p.m. Wednesday began one of seven 11-hour non-top air shifts soliciting pledges of money from anyone who happened to be listening to the station, at 88.1 on the FM band.

When it’s all over at midnight Saturday, the seven announcers will jointly thank their audience. They won’t, however, sleep away the remainder of the weekend.

The seven will meet again eight hours later at the Pontiac Silverdome where they will begin the 20-mile March of Dimes Walk-a-thon.

After they’ve trucked the trek, they hope to turn over to the March of Dimes pledges exceeding the $2,300 they raised during the station’s initial marathon last year.

“We’ve got a lot of dares to make people call in. And, if we don’t get enough pledges, we’ll just keep playing a song they hate and they’ll call with pledges just to make ust stop,” said Diane Kraft, an Andover senior, the school’s March of Dimes Coordinator and one of the seven announcers.

Someone did just that last year, pledging $10 for an uninterrupted period of dead air, she said.

Different Bloomfield Hills junior high schools already have challenged each other to see which can pleged the most to the WBFH marathon.

Most people who pledge money do so in return for having a musical request played by the announcer, Miss Kraft said. Even unique song titiles won’t faze these electronic wizards.

“If we don’t have the record, we’ll sing it,” she said.

Some of the requests, however, border on the bizarre. For instance, one announcer last year was offered a hefty pledge if he could run around the school building before a record concluded.

To reach them call either 647-8510 or 647-1224.