My name is Greg Packer. I’m first in line for iPhone in New York City at Apple Store Fifth Avenue near Central Park. I showed up on Monday morning, June 25th, at 5am.
Please reach out to me by leaving your comments, leaving me a note on MySpace, sending me an email, or even calling my mobile phone while I am sitting in line. Or, hey, come by and just visit!
Email: grego11743@hotmail.com
Mobile phone: 631.291.2603
My Space: Greggoes
Want to help make my experience sitting in line more comfortable? Anything you can donate via PayPal (grego11743@hotmail.com) or drop by for me in line will be greatly appreciated!
Thank you to the iPhoneDevCamp guys – whurley and Raven Zachary, for creating my site, noneck noel for the video work, and OuterNet for the domain registration. And, of course, the WordPress guys for hosting my site.
Also, please check out my new friend, David Clayman, who is documenting his experience on his own blog, the iphone adventure. He’s third in line!
June 26, 2007 at 4:14 am
Good luck!
Are you going to use your iPhone for work stuff?
June 26, 2007 at 5:30 am
Good luck and enjoy the iPhone when you get it. I hope to get one in August when my Sprint contract ends. For now, I’ll have to read about people’s iPhone experiences like you on the internet. Be safe, Keep warm and enjoy the your wait. I got the link of your blog through CNET. So I’m sure you’ll get more comments or phone calls. Later.
June 26, 2007 at 6:21 am
Good luck you are defenitly going to get your iPhone before me. I’m from Denmark in Europe and we’re expecting to be waiting in line in front of our Apple stores in the cold of January (If of course any european phone companies are willing to bend over for Apple
June 26, 2007 at 6:25 am
You’re nuts.
I’m going to order mine from the comfort of my bed, with my laptop, in my boxers. With the air conditioning on. It’ll get here when it gets here.
Godspeed, you crazy bastard.
June 26, 2007 at 6:39 am
Greg, congrats on being the first! You’ve made the pole position on the waiting-for list at http://www.waitingforiphone.com/my-wait/
Hopefully there will be many more of us joining you soon, as soon as we can get away from working!
Jack
June 26, 2007 at 6:43 am
hey wats up dude,
good luck dude, i wish i was able to get it on the first day too but i cant.
hope the weather is going to be an issue.
June 26, 2007 at 6:44 am
Greg,
You’re nutzoid, but I admire your chutzpah! Hang tough, and I hope you’re getting the 8gb for all that effort.
June 26, 2007 at 6:48 am
Have you really nothing better to do?
June 26, 2007 at 6:56 am
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June 26, 2007 at 6:59 am
Sad. Just sad.
June 26, 2007 at 7:00 am
You have to be the dumbest and smartest Apple fan boy to date! I love the passion, but you are flat out one crazy dude.
June 26, 2007 at 7:01 am
U R MY HERO!!!! i waited at midnight for world of warcraft expansion to ocm e out too
June 26, 2007 at 7:03 am
wow ur my hero im deffinatly gonna come by and visit tomorow…heck maybe ill even get in line!
June 26, 2007 at 7:04 am
wow i LOVE apple im coming right now!
June 26, 2007 at 7:05 am
I hope it f’n rains on you every day!
June 26, 2007 at 7:06 am
i will consider to buy this phone, i like my kosher phone more tough!.
June 26, 2007 at 7:06 am
i admire people like you you must have a lot of patience ,sometimes! elijah2006@myspace.com
June 26, 2007 at 7:09 am
ENJOY YOUR IPHONE myspace.com/elijah2006
June 26, 2007 at 7:09 am
http://digg.com/apple/First_in_line_iPhone
Digg him up!
June 26, 2007 at 7:12 am
There’s some negative people out there…
I hope the sun never stops shining on you, mate.
Best wishes from Tokyo!
June 26, 2007 at 7:19 am
You’re nuts! Good luck anyway!
)
June 26, 2007 at 7:28 am
Donations… You are going to buy a flippin overpriced telephone. Why would anyone donate to you, when the same money could be used for ANYTHING else other than cramming more cash up your fat butt?
I’ll never understand those blind Apple followers. Whatever.
June 26, 2007 at 7:37 am
go get yourself a job instead of a iphone. a week in the jim would do you much better. are you homless or something? look at yourself sitting there asking for money. the iphone is cool but not worth sitting for ages like some kind of homless
June 26, 2007 at 7:42 am
Too bad they’re going to clear all the lines the night before. Have fun with all that time wasted for nothing, big guy!
June 26, 2007 at 8:10 am
Don’t you have anything better to do with your life? Sheesh!
June 26, 2007 at 8:30 am
3 days before. Loser. So where are you going to piss, shit, eat, shower? Just sit there and wait? Disgusting.
June 26, 2007 at 8:38 am
best wishes from austia !
you are a hero!!!!!
June 26, 2007 at 8:49 am
i hope apple will be kind enough to give you the phone for free.
June 26, 2007 at 9:04 am
http://theradblog.typepad.com/theradblog/2007/06/dudes-line-up-f.html
I blogged about you. Good luck man! Have fun!
June 26, 2007 at 9:36 am
if you’re waiting in line for an expensive iPhone then don’t bother asking people to donate you money you lazy hobo
June 26, 2007 at 9:36 am
I’ll send you a daily McD if you pick me up an iPhone too. And fries if you mail it to Europe. Oh and some ketchup if you pursuade a telco to host it here. Errr nevermind then. Good luck anyway, you nutzoid.
June 26, 2007 at 9:43 am
Bonne chance de France Greg, good luck.
June 26, 2007 at 9:51 am
Good luck Greg. Best wishes from other side of the globe (India). Read about this news in an automobile site.
June 26, 2007 at 9:53 am
Go and do some charity work for 3 days, seriously.
June 26, 2007 at 9:56 am
Greg, hope it doesn’t snow like it did last time I was at the 5th Avenue Apple Store
June 26, 2007 at 9:58 am
Sorry shameless plug alert:
And if you want to help a charity, help Oxfam, me and 7 office mates are walking 100km (60 miles) inside 30 hours for Oxfam next month!
We can accept donations from all major credit cards
June 26, 2007 at 10:03 am
Sorry to fill your comments up here, Greg, my two URLs should have read:
http://blogs.sun.com/colinj/entry/first_in_line_for_iphone
and
http://blogs.sun.com/trailwalker/
Now don’t run down those stairs!
June 26, 2007 at 10:04 am
[...] In New York, Greg Pecker waits for an iPhone already! [...]
June 26, 2007 at 10:04 am
You Go!!! It’s going to be a crazy ride for you.
June 26, 2007 at 10:05 am
OMG … (little “nuts to you” )
Good luck, anyway…
June 26, 2007 at 10:06 am
i love Apple but..dude… it’s a 1G and http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/23/new-details-about-the-iphone/
June 26, 2007 at 10:10 am
I really don’t know where to start with you, you ignorant moron. I’ve no problem at all with you sleeping in a queue to get an iPhone (I’d like one myself). But asking people for food donations on the street, and ASKING FOR MONEY ON PAYPAL!!!!!!! So you’ve got a house and $500 to spare, and yet you’re sleeping on the street and asking for food and money. Moron. Moron. er, Moron!
There are hundreds of thousands living on the streets of the world, and many more millions living in poverty. None of them do this by choice. Yet you think that we should help you to survive your week at the front of a queue which basically screams ‘me, me, me! I’m a greedy consumer moron, and I want your attention’. You got it. Hope it shames you.
June 26, 2007 at 10:13 am
Hi there,
I actually wandered how you manage all this time whitout going to the restrooms??? otherwise I guess you would loose your spot? what is your secret?
Anyway good luck from Paris, France!
June 26, 2007 at 10:30 am
You have got to be kidding!!! I bet your mother is proud of you LMAO. Go and do something useful with your time. I hope when you reflect on this week you realize how you should have spent your time more wisely. You are just another example of a self centered American. All you Americans think about is yourself. No wonder there are so many in your country who live in poverty. Anyone who donates money or food to you is an idiot.
June 26, 2007 at 10:31 am
you have no life.
June 26, 2007 at 10:41 am
You are so much of what is wrong with the United States.
June 26, 2007 at 11:01 am
[...] se nalazi na prvom mestu u redu za IPhone. Na svom blogu koji je otvorio specijalno za ovu priliku, kaže da se u redu nalazi od ponedeljka 25. juna od 5 sati ujutro [...]
June 26, 2007 at 11:07 am
So very very sad. Get to work you lazy thing.
June 26, 2007 at 11:10 am
Now that the blog is turning into a rant against rampant American consumerism and imperialism: supporters for dear old Gregory need better grammar control and should use their spell-check facilities rigorously. Cheer up Greg, poppet. Use the donations to catch up on your Camus. What about ‘The First Man’?
June 26, 2007 at 11:24 am
hey fatty you shameless shiftless bludger
how about I donate my boot up your arse
June 26, 2007 at 11:26 am
I hope you get raped at night by a homeless guy
June 26, 2007 at 11:29 am
I’m writing to you from Russia, I wish you good luck with your waiting. Three days to stay there, that’s so long. Hope You have fun reading those posts. By the way, people can ask you to buy iPhone for them too, and you can charge them, right? Think about it. You are the only man in New York, who can garantee the fastest purchase
Hope you’re not hungry.
Cheers
June 26, 2007 at 11:37 am
Oh my god, I didn’t think what a selfish idiot I’m being. Sorry everyone, sorry world! I’m in two minds what to do now – I’m so ashamed I really want to just crawl away and pretend I never did this, but the other half of me wants to stick it out, max out my credit card on iPhones, and then auction them all for charity. I throw myself at your mercy – what should I do?
June 26, 2007 at 11:41 am
Hey.. while you are debating the purpose of your waiting, do you mind saving me a spot in line?
June 26, 2007 at 11:52 am
Wow, you have a lot of nerve. Waiting in line for 5 days to buy a $600 phone and you want fucking donations? What a fucking moron.
June 26, 2007 at 12:07 pm
I love Apple but i can’t undestand ????????
5 days befor….
June 26, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Only an American would try to make money by sitting in a line for 5 days to buy something he probably can’t afford.
June 26, 2007 at 12:59 pm
You have the rare luxury of being able to afford sitting in line all week just to buy the first iteration of an expensive phone, and you have the NERVE to solicit donations so that you can scarf down more chips while killing time? Oh, and it’s premium Kettle Chips at that, none of the cheap Wise 50 cent bags for you – oh no!
Look around at the poverty in New York City and seriously think about what the hell is wrong with you. At least the Star Wars line geeks gave their money to charity.
None of us are perfect, but asking for money in the way that you are is an embarrassing low.
June 26, 2007 at 1:03 pm
You have some balls asking for donations to make your squanderous waste of time more comfortable while hundreds of thousands of new yorkers live on the street. You make me sick, and I hope someone mugs you and steals your precious new iphone. Jackass.
June 26, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Hey Greg, stay strong and have fun while waiting for the iPhone. Hope its everything its cracked up to be. Don’t waste too much on it or max out your cards. Best wishes.
Angry people of the world, lighten up. Its just a guy waiting in line for something, not a reflection of society as a whole. You’re all over-reacting a little bit. The time you waste reading blogs and being nasty to strangers could also be spent saving the world.
June 26, 2007 at 1:29 pm
You are standing in line for an iphone and asking for donations? Get a job you fucking jackoff
June 26, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Please go shower! Oh and change those nasty stinky socks.
June 26, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Evolution des Designs bei Apple
Designer Edwin Toslie hat sich die Mühe gemacht, eine Art Abstammungsrevue in Bildern zu basteln. Dankenswerterweise in einer passablen Auflösung und so prangt das hier gerade im Büro.
Ja, ja ich weiss, ich bin vielleicht etwas bescheue…
June 26, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Nice one Greg, and remember — “a road followed pricesly to it’s end, leads precisely nowhere”. In other words, enjoy the ride m8, it’s where the fun is at!
June 26, 2007 at 1:34 pm
dude are u serious ur asking for, help so u can sit in line to buy a want rather than a need and ur askin for others with the common sense not to buy for help. dude ur one sick sick little man.
June 26, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Dude – asking for donations while you sit in line to pay $600 for a telephone (albeit a very cool telephone) is offensive. If people are stupid enough to pay you… to sit in line… for four days … to buy a phone… for yourself… wait I take it back – you’re a genius and it’s never wrong to separate a fool from his money. Godspeed, brave iphone-waiting-in-line-genius-guy!
June 26, 2007 at 1:36 pm
please mr jobs!!!! you have to give him a free one!!!
June 26, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Dumb.
June 26, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Offensive is the perfect word for this Pecker
June 26, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Peckerhead
June 26, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Should be renamed ‘mePhone’ after this jerkoff.
He’s a serial self-publicist, btw…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Packer
June 26, 2007 at 1:56 pm
“# andy Says:
June 26th, 2007 at 4:14 am
Good luck!
Are you going to use your iPhone for work stuff?”
NO. It should be painfully obvious that this guy is begging for money for a phone. If he has a job, I hope his boss sees this and fires him on the spot for being such loser. What a tragic waste of time, money and skin.
June 26, 2007 at 2:07 pm
I have o[ened a paypal account for people to donate some money for the time it has taken me to parse this moronic website.
I will also be accepting any donations of cranial massages due to the nature of the content herein. My head hurts.
June 26, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Hello Greg good luck from Austria (Europe)
June 26, 2007 at 2:25 pm
You all talk about this guy, I think most of you should have first used your brains and ask youself is this for real and what is the joke or angle here. Verses assuming the guy is a looser who has no money and was looking for a hand out to buy an iphone. As someone pointed out the guy is a self-publicist and the joke is all on you….
I just think this is too funny and you all played into to him
June 26, 2007 at 2:28 pm
This guy can afford an iPhone and he still has the cheek to ask for donations!!
You gotta be kidding me.
June 26, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Greg Packer
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For the DJ, see Greg Packer (DJ).
Greg Packer (born December 18, 1963), an American highway maintenance worker from Huntington, New York, has been quoted in more than 100 articles and television broadcasts as a member of the public (that is, a person on the street rather than a newsmaker or expert).
Packer’s status as a frequent interviewee came about due to his hobby of attending public appearances of celebrities and other media events and being first in line on such occasions. He has consequently had the opportunity to meet people ranging from Mariah Carey to Garth Brooks to Dennis Rodman to Ringo Starr, and at least three presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. [1], [2]
His run in the press seems to have started with a quotation in The Tampa Tribune of October 6, 1995:
“The Jewish people are fans of Pope John Paul II,” said Greg Packer of Huntington, N.J. “He doesn’t limit his message to one faith; he reaches out to everybody.”
Although the Tribune quote identifies Packer’s home state as New Jersey rather than New York, this is Packer’s first newspaper appearance to have been identified so far.
According to a 2002 article about Packer, “He was first in the line to see ground zero when the viewing platform opened at the World Trade Center site December 30 [2001]. He was the first in line in 1997 to sign the condolence book at the British consulate when Princess Diana died. He slept outside in the snow in Washington in January 2001 to be the first in line to greet President George W. Bush after his inauguration.” [3]
Due to Packer’s appearances at these media events, he came to be quoted by reporters attending the events. Unlike many attendees, Packer was willing to be quoted: as he explained in 2004, “I always come up with an answer for everything, number one. And … I always give everybody … the respect and the time that they need.” His quotes ranged from the expression of common sentiments, such as “It’s a day for happiness and to be together,” regarding a St. Patrick’s Day parade [4], to colorful statements such as his opinion of a New York Yankees game played on Yom Kippur: “There’s no way the Yankees will lose, but if they do, they’ll certainly have something to atone for.” [5]
In June 2003, columnist Ann Coulter and blogger Mickey Kaus, commenting on media coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s memoir Living History, noted that Packer was “the centerpiece of The New York Times’ ‘man on the street’ interview about Hillary-mania.” Packer had been quoted in the Times as stating, “I’m a big fan of Hillary and Bill’s. I want to change her mind about running for president. I want to be part of her campaign.” Coulter pointed out:
It was easy for the Times to spell Packer’s name right because he is apparently the entire media’s designated “man on the street” for all articles ever written. He has appeared in news stories more than 100 times as a random member of the public. Packer was quoted on his reaction to military strikes against Iraq; he was quoted at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Veterans Day Parade. He was quoted at not one — but two — New Year’s Eve celebrations at Times Square. He was quoted at the opening of a new “Star Wars” movie, at the opening of an H&M clothing store on Fifth Avenue and at the opening of the viewing stand at Ground Zero. He has been quoted at Yankees games, Mets games, Jets games — even getting tickets for the Brooklyn Cyclones. He was quoted at a Clinton fund-raiser at Alec Baldwin’s house in the Hamptons and the pope’s visit to Giants stadium. [6]
The “more than 100″ Packer appearances included quotes in the New York Post, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Times, as well as appearances on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. [7]
As a result of Coulter’s column, Packer was profiled in his own right by the New York Times. [8] The Associated Press sent out a memo to its news editors and correspondents, stating in part: “The world is full of all kinds of interesting people. One of them is Greg Packer of Huntington, N.Y., who apparently lives to get his name on the AP wire and in other media. It works: A Nexis search turned up 100 mentions in various publications. … Mr. Packer is clearly eager to be quoted. Let’s be eager, too — to find other people to quote.” [9]
After the ubiquity of Packer’s quotes became public, he was still quoted and referred to occasionally, but sometimes with more disclosure of his identity provided. When Bill Clinton began his book tour for his memoir My Life, Packer was first in line for Clinton’s first signing; a 2004 New York Times article on Clinton’s appearance referred to Packer as “Greg Packer, 40, wearing a New York Yankees shirt, who has been cultivating the press for several years now and manages to attend at least two news events a week.” [10]
Nevertheless, not all journalists include such disclaimers; an EpochTimes.com article in 2005 on the release of the novel Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince simply stated: “The book buyers, mostly adults, were largely local fans, like Greg Packer of Long Island, 41, who admitted he had not yet read all the previous editions.” [11] Similarly, when Packer attended the Super Bowl victory rally for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2006, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review identified him only as “Greg Packer, 42, a lifelong Steelers fan from Huntington, N.Y.” [12]
June 26, 2007 at 2:30 pm
[...] Welt schaut nach USA und wartet gespannt auf das iPhone. Alle Welt? Nicht ganz! Im Norden Bayerns in einem kleinen Dorf namens Randersacker, gleich vor den [...]
June 26, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Wait…your begging for handouts while you’re waiting in line to spend $600 on a phone? You should be ashamed of yourself.
June 26, 2007 at 2:43 pm
You are All Nuts said
“You all talk about this guy, I think most of you should have first used your brains and ask youself is this for real and what is the joke or angle here. Verses assuming the guy is a looser who has no money and was looking for a hand out to buy an iphone. As someone pointed out the guy is a self-publicist and the joke is all on you….
I just think this is too funny and you all played into to him”
Oh dear, there’s a difference between self-publicity and putting yourself in an ill-thought-through position leading to global hatred. ‘You are All Nuts’ obviously doesn’t understand the subtle difference. Pecker has made himself look a pratt no matter which angle you look at him
June 26, 2007 at 2:56 pm
We blogged about your wait in line – check it out:
http://milkwasabadchoice.blogspot.com/2007/06/iphone-madess-begins-4-days-ahead-of.html
Good luck with the iPhone!
June 26, 2007 at 3:03 pm
yo, good luck. ignore the naysayers.
June 26, 2007 at 3:05 pm
have some more potato chips, pudgy
June 26, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Hi Greg,
“Keep it up” & cheers from Hong Kong. We envy you. We have to wait until 2008 to get iPhone in Asia. It would be interesting for us to know how the device handles Chinese characters input. All phones we use here are bi-lingual….
June 26, 2007 at 3:23 pm
hay good luck!!!!!
June 26, 2007 at 3:29 pm
What many people fail to realise is that he’s not a super Apple fanboy, but line waiter. This is what he does. Read his Wiki. Greg is a serial line waiter, there’s no saying that he’ll actually buy an iPhone at the end of his epic slog. From the sounds of things, it all depends on whether he gets any donations. Chill out all you people who are slating him, you might have some strange hobbies too!
June 26, 2007 at 3:34 pm
You’re a queef.
June 26, 2007 at 3:43 pm
http://iphonecamperoverseas.blog.com/
June 26, 2007 at 3:45 pm
You need a life, not an iphone!
June 26, 2007 at 3:51 pm
American idiot!
June 26, 2007 at 3:52 pm
I wondered what had become of our former England goalkeeper!! http://www.voetbalfocus.nl/imgs/seaman-d1.jpg)
June 26, 2007 at 3:52 pm
I wondered what had happened to our former England goalkeeper!! http://www.voetbalfocus.nl/imgs/seaman-d1.jpg
June 26, 2007 at 3:57 pm
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June 26, 2007 at 3:57 pm
More power to you and the “flash job” you’ve given yourself this week.
June 26, 2007 at 4:08 pm
You’re first in line for an iPhone? NO WAY! Do you want a trophy?!
June 26, 2007 at 4:09 pm
He probably has more money than all these angry morons put together. Especially the bozo’s living in other countries who don’t make **** but instead spend their time self-loathing and spewing anti-American BS.
Seriously people, it’s not this guy’s fault that God hates you.
June 26, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Well done, i think its cool and i wish you good luck..
But i feel sad for all those people writing all those evil and stupid stuff, whats wrong with you? Cant you see the fun in this? Cant you see the ironic in him asking for donations?
If i didnt live in Denmark i would come by with two beers and say hi…
June 26, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Which of the iPhone buttons calls your parents to come pick you up?
June 26, 2007 at 4:30 pm
It’s sounds pathetic. Ok, keep your iPhone while there are people who are in line for food…
June 26, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Hey my kids emac just died can you use your donations to buy my kids a new one!
June 26, 2007 at 4:32 pm
That’s so nice! Congrats. In fact you have more attention than those kids in line for food… Ohh, behold my oferend,beloved capitalism!
June 26, 2007 at 4:43 pm
apple is evil!
June 26, 2007 at 4:45 pm
It’s all in good fun! Have a great week guys. 5 days is way too long. I did an overnight for the Wii and probably won’t be doing that again (although hanging with people in line can be awesome). I’ll be hopping in line on Friday morning. Hope that’s early enough. Good luck!
Someone bring that man an Egg McMuffin!
June 26, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Ummm. . . . If you’re wealthy enough to skip work to pay too much money for version 1.0 phone (albeit a cool one), why do you need donations?
Vive la folie!!
June 26, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Non mais quel tocard!!!!!!
June 26, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Ah, I get it. He’s a professional! A professional line sitter inner.
So he’s just a tool.
June 26, 2007 at 5:12 pm
y you buy a version 1 product from apple, we all know that the first release is rubbish…
roman
June 26, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Congrats! You get worldwide attention for the simple act of sitting down. Have fun with your new iPhone, mate!
June 26, 2007 at 5:42 pm
What an iLOSER!
June 26, 2007 at 5:42 pm
at least do some jumping jacks or skip some rope, fat boy!
June 26, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Get a life!
June 26, 2007 at 6:10 pm
I am suddenly very glad I will be out of the country for the iPhone launch. You are one seriously crazy person. I admire your drive, but geeze. I hope you find what you’re looking for.
June 26, 2007 at 6:26 pm
I think FakeSteveJobs put it best.
What a frigtard.
June 26, 2007 at 6:35 pm
GD you are a fucking loser. It is a phone for christ’s sake.
Get a life you giant shit bag,
June 26, 2007 at 6:35 pm
tu eres tonto.
June 26, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Hi guys, wish you good luck!!! The iPhone fever has also reacht one of the smallest towns up in the italian alps were I sit and watch you!
June 26, 2007 at 6:45 pm
um why do need a metrocard or a donation fro that matter if you’re buying a $600 phone? what’s your job? also anyone know if people are crazy enough to be waiting in line at the soho store or any other store?
June 26, 2007 at 6:47 pm
genius!!!
this guy is going to sell it on eBay and make a cool 3-4k on it.
zx.
June 26, 2007 at 7:02 pm
You’re a fucking moron!
June 26, 2007 at 7:04 pm
People are watching family members dying from starvation and you’re trying to raise money to eat shitty chips and sit on your ass for a piece of plastic? I think a re-evaluation of priorities is in order.
June 26, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Your name s/b Pecker – not Packer.
June 26, 2007 at 7:45 pm
“Donations accepted” means if you happen to hand him a few bucks, he’ll accept it. It’s not begging. How you can be morally outraged about this is beyond me; the fact that you’re working 40 hours per week does not automatically make you a productive member of society. You can be employed and still be a leech if the work you’re doing is unnecessary and has no real benefit to society, which is the case more often than you might realize.
June 26, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Hi Greg,
do you got my sms?
All the best to you from germany/europe. We have to wait half a year longer …
Salute, and all the best to you and all “in the line”
June 26, 2007 at 8:06 pm
You are such a dick!
June 26, 2007 at 8:06 pm
There was a shmo named Greg Packer
Arguably the world’s greatest slacker
For he sat on his ass
before a cube made of glass
becoming known as the iphone buttcracker
June 26, 2007 at 8:07 pm
[...] new best friend, David Ro (who is definitely not featured in this picture—the pictured guy is Greg Packer, first in line at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store in NYC), sends along a perfectly reasonable [...]
June 26, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Why don’t you put some google ads up? You could almost pay for your iPhone with all the traffic.
June 26, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Greg F. Packer… The “F” is for Fudge
June 26, 2007 at 8:38 pm
You’re about to buy a $500 phone and you want donations. How about I donate a kick in the ass?
June 26, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Haiku, anyone?
June 26, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Get a job you turd.
June 26, 2007 at 9:14 pm
I agree — you are a turd.
June 26, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Good Luck from Norway. (No point for us queing, as there is no date set yet…)
June 26, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Why are you outside the shop?, It’s open 24/24, isn’t it?
June 26, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Hey, tv network G4 is giving away six iphones free this Friday night at 10pm ET/PT duing it’s show “Free Stuff” http://www.g4tv.com/freestuff.
June 26, 2007 at 9:49 pm
good luck from germany. is it cold in the nights there?
omg, i love my warm bed…
June 26, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Simply pathetic…
Soon, you will have an iPhone… congratulations !
But how can you look at yourself in a miror right now ?
Asking for money and food and after that spend 600$ for a phone !
I agree with most of the comments : you are a complete moron, i have pity for you…
June 26, 2007 at 9:51 pm
don’t listen to the haters, man. sounds like JEALOUSY to me. so you arranged things so you could wait in line for a few days. kudos to you!
people may be calling you all sort of things now, but some day you’ll be able to tell the story that you were the first in line at your apple store the day this watershed product was released. rock on with your bad self.
June 26, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Please off yourself.
June 26, 2007 at 10:22 pm
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/it.s-gonna-be-a-long-week/iphone-linewatch-one-600-phone-away-from-homelessness-272177.php
June 26, 2007 at 10:58 pm
The “i’ what? what is it?
June 26, 2007 at 11:58 pm
[...] I’m first in line for iPhone! [image] My name is Greg Packer. I’m first in line for iPhone in New York City at Apple Store Fifth Avenue near […] [...]
June 27, 2007 at 12:15 am
You are so idiot!
June 27, 2007 at 12:16 am
Nothing, this is nothing.
June 27, 2007 at 12:17 am
Tu es vraiement un taré
June 27, 2007 at 12:19 am
Lo del iphone no lo entiendo, los gringos están despelotando el mundo y est tarado sentado ahí por un pedazo de mierda.
June 27, 2007 at 12:39 am
nah, aqui lo traeran en 1 semana, hare cola en la aduana con mi pepito. Copa America
June 27, 2007 at 2:07 am
Well this blog says more about the people who are posting than Greg.
For the haters and abusive posters – The guy wants to spend HIS time queuing. Leaping in with abuse says much more about you than it does about him. Not everyone in the world thinks like you. Thank God.
For the moral majority – if you really cared about the homeless, the starving or the 50% of the world who don’t have access to a phone you would be out there doing something about it and not posting on here. You are just as selfish as Greg but at least he’s being honest.
For the jealous posters – YOU are the ones who need to think about getting a life. Owning things cannot make you cool, or buy you genuine friends. If you need gadgets to fulfill your life or give you some sense of identity then you REALLY are missing the point.
Greg, have a nice time in the line, if this is how you wanna spend your days good on ya, interesting people make the world more interesting.
IMHO I’d flag buying the phone though, owning one is going to be the same as tattoo’ing ‘I AM TRYING TOO HARD’ on your forehead…
June 27, 2007 at 2:13 am
Gday from sunny Queensland, Australia I tried to call you, but your mailbox is full.
June 27, 2007 at 2:14 am
You are so lucky!!!
In Australia, some websites are saying Quarter 1 2008 while one I read stated TBD: to be determined.
If I were in the states, I’d be right behind you.
June 27, 2007 at 2:48 am
After you get your new iPhone, be sure to check out my .mobi website designed juicedradio.mobi – It’s had free downloads for your cellphone and is compatible with iPhones!
June 27, 2007 at 3:04 am
you are too cool. hope everything works out!
June 27, 2007 at 3:18 am
Cheers from Hong Kong! I admire your patient and determination…. Hope you have fun with your iPhone! It would be great if you send me a photo taken by iPhone the date you get it…..
June 27, 2007 at 3:45 am
You’re so stupid…
dummie
June 27, 2007 at 4:03 am
I took advise and looked you up on Wiki-so your hobby is chasing media attention you sad…no,actually you’re perfect NeoCon fodder i.e. a complete moron.
E-Beggar!
June 27, 2007 at 6:18 am
Haha! People queue up days before in New York too!
You have caught on with the national hobby in Singapore! Queue-ing!
June 27, 2007 at 6:31 am
There are so many worthwhile causes you could expend this time and energy on. This is sad.
As someone said before – you represent so much of what is wrong with the western world.
You pointless vigil is not something to celebrate
June 27, 2007 at 7:45 am
lol greg is crazy number one on line but im just crazy im number four on line. see you guys their lol you can send us free water or umbrellas if it rains.
xoxo jess
June 27, 2007 at 8:02 am
A 43-year-old retired highway maintenance worker? What were you maintaining? Lots of white lines?
June 27, 2007 at 8:04 am
I run a gadget site called http://gadgetaholic.com . We are holding a contest for the iPhone launch event. Just send us some photos of the launch or even people waiting in line prior to the launch to iphone@gadgetaholic.com . We’ll pick somebody at random to win a DLO TransDock Deluxe.
Also, the first person who sends us the photo, get a pair of Monster iFreePlay headphones. Deal?
June 27, 2007 at 8:12 am
You are the best example how the USA is seen in the world today…stupid and degenerative. You are a shame! Never seen an idiot like you!
June 27, 2007 at 8:20 am
Oh my God, what a loser.
June 27, 2007 at 8:49 am
Hail the rise of the idiot fanboys
June 27, 2007 at 8:49 am
Stupid bollock.
June 27, 2007 at 9:01 am
I cannot believe the hate and number of negative posts written already. I mean, c’mon guys, leave some for me to use!
It was all good till the “donate via Pay Pal” – what a loser. Also, I think you are an amnesic bulemic – you eat but forget to vomit it back up, u fat arse.
June 27, 2007 at 9:55 am
Bet he’s getting paid by Apple for the free advertising they are getting.
I would rather my Nokia E61 anyday !
June 27, 2007 at 10:37 am
Way to go, Greg! Enjoy that iPhone!
June 27, 2007 at 11:00 am
“Pecker”, you say your name is? Got that right…
June 27, 2007 at 11:27 am
What a sick marketing campaign! Shame on anybody who gave money for this action Apple? – it is just too stupid but albeit a success anyway. Mankind is the ultimate stupid disease. What a mess!
June 27, 2007 at 12:08 pm
So my question is, if this picture was taken on Monday when you first got into line (or within a short time there after) why do you already look like a dirty greasy crap ball? Dude there is more to life than sitting outside (in NYC no less). Get a job, do charity work or freaking just take a shower… any and all with be an improvement.
June 27, 2007 at 12:25 pm
The Wanker Detetctor’s going into overdrive. Greg, you are definitely a wanker of the first order. And asking for donations??? Get your hand off it!
For those insulated people who aren’t famillari with the term….. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanker
June 27, 2007 at 12:39 pm
ok you are there, so what? where is the big deal?
June 27, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Go for it, mate.
Ive been working for Apple in Japan.
I couldnt possibly get iPhone this year.
Enjoy fucked up iPhone and tell others how it works.
Ive never been to NY but now I wish I were there to have some pints with ya.
June 27, 2007 at 2:08 pm
You such an ignorant moron, buying a way overpriced phone and beg for donations. Don’t you think you could have used that money for better purposes?
sal
http://sal-one.com/
June 27, 2007 at 2:26 pm
go fuck yerself dorkus!! please stop breathing….
June 27, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Dude, get a life. A year from now, this thing will still be on sale. Being the first of anything gives you a whole 10 seconds of fame and thrill. After that, you are stuck with the same toy that everyone else has. I’ve been there and done it too. I can truely say that it’s purely an ego trip to be able to say, I stood in line five days to be the first to get one. Grats, does it do any more than mine? No… Did Steve Jobs walk up and thank you for buying it personally? no… Will you be remembered as the first buyer in that store? heck no! Like I said, I’ve been there and done that – and then I grew up. I don’t have to see the first showing of a cool movie any more because it’s the same on the 50th as the first. I don’t have to be first at anything because I realize that it doesn’t make you special – it just shows you’re need to feel special and obsession with self-agradizement. The good news is, it’s not your fault. It’s the world we live in today. And this phone, while a huge leap forward, is just another part of the whole “must have the best toy” philosophy. I will buy one too, but perhaps when the price comes down. I’m impressed that the iphone has what I always wanted my Blackberry to have, touch screen – real video integration – Flash player (this is an assumption). I’ve waited a year for BB to make a move to just the Flash player and was stunned when Apple came out with it. But that doesn’t mean I have to have it just so I can watch YouTube when driving. It doesn’t make me more of a person to have the first or even the first half-million iphones. And that is what it means to grow up in today’s world.
June 27, 2007 at 2:35 pm
YOU STUPID FUCK !
June 27, 2007 at 2:36 pm
GOOD LUCK and have fun with it.
Greetings from BELGIUM
David
June 27, 2007 at 2:48 pm
oh and the whole media hound thing, lol. I work in the media and boy does it get old. I’m really surprised they even put this guy on the web in the wire story. We’re I the reporter on the scene, I’d skip you. It’s greed and an obsession with being in the lime light. Recognize it and get help.
And I do have to agree with some of the haters on here, asking for donations is really cras.
June 27, 2007 at 2:54 pm
typical selfish jackass American sitting there eating, being lazy and contributing to global warming. All while people around the world are begging for food and work.
June 27, 2007 at 3:10 pm
As a Linkin Park fan you could stand to see their video again maybe it will open your eyes:
June 27, 2007 at 3:11 pm
As a Linkin Park fan you could stand to see their video again maybe it will open your eyes:
June 27, 2007 at 3:24 pm
get aids & die
June 27, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Perhaps you could try to be first in line when a gym opens someday.
June 27, 2007 at 3:52 pm
If you’ve got $500 for an iPhone, what business do you have panhandling for for PayPal handouts?
June 27, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Go buy a bra first you fat cunt
June 27, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Obviously, the sequel to the 2005 surprise comedy hit, The 40 Year Old Virgin is out:-
“The 50 Year Old Man Breasted Fat Useless Piece Of Shite”
June 27, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Mr Seaman, we need you back for training Monday morning.
June 27, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Watch the fat cunt’s rippling tubby ass at http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/video/exclusive-interview-with-the-first-two-iphone-campers-in-ny-272140.php&t=1182873418
June 27, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Mr Pecker,
If you do manage to get the new iphone this coming friday, please check out this great website I am starting in your honor:-
http://www.fat.shithead.gaylord.fuckugly.nomates.with.an.iphone.com
June 27, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Hey smartypants,
if you go in line on Monday then that means that you didnt even know the service plan cost when you got in line. Now that you know its gonna cost $60 a month at the least and with the 2 year contract cost about $2000, are you having second thoughts?
June 27, 2007 at 4:54 pm
ive been reeding reviews and that shithead Chris needs to shut the fuck up
June 27, 2007 at 4:55 pm
ha
June 27, 2007 at 5:09 pm
hahahhahahahhahahhahahahhahahhahahhahaha loser
June 27, 2007 at 5:10 pm
WTF is wrong with all the haters out there?
Leave the guy alone. He’s doing what he wants to do. If he wants to be first, why do you care? If he’s doing this for an iPhone, great. If he’s doing it for the publicity, great.
The haters on here probably hate gays, jews and blacks too. You’re the ones that need the life.
Enjoy your iPhone big guy.
June 27, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Yeah.. leave him alone..
He’s like real sexy and I want him to ream me up the shitter…
June 27, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Ah, Apple PR dropped the ball on this one. They should have paid a couple of cute coeds to sit at the front of the line, instead of this pathetic fat I-have-no-life fool.
He’s a worse media whore than a presidential candidate, for God’s sake! Have we lost all sense of decency?
June 27, 2007 at 5:47 pm
wow…van mac hates blacks and jews, even though he’s gay?
June 27, 2007 at 5:55 pm
lol @ this guy. hes pretty smart some ppl have to actually work to get attention from media. he just sits and bam instant legend hes genius omfg
June 27, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Get a job you fat bastard.
June 27, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Wow, 200 comments!
Did you run away from your own site?
June 27, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Will the person who is pretending to be me please grow up and get a life.
June 27, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Thats not the real me.
Stop being an asshole
June 27, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Hey, we’re adding iPhone accessories to our website right now…and as of Friday night, we will have the first iPhone take-apart video on the web. Check us out. Thanks.
June 27, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Hey, we’re adding useless adverts to your website right now…and as of Friday night, we will be spam blasting you all to fuck !!!
Check us out. Thanks.
June 27, 2007 at 6:38 pm
What a loser. Get a life, get a job, and most importantly get a girl.
June 27, 2007 at 6:55 pm
You sir are a soldier! Regardless of what anyone says here, you’re enduring something that most of us would not for that which you want.
Ingore the faceless, spineless haters. The internet is a harsh place. I hope you enjoy your iPhone, and your hard-earned claim at being the first in line.
June 27, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Al,
I agree. The internet is a very harsh place.
People should be more considerate of others.
Regards
MrC
PS: Fuck off you big fat dick splash.
June 27, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Are you actually going to buy the iPhone you are waiting in line for, or will this be like when you waited for a Harry Potter book, even though you had never read any of the series?
You would think that given your ‘profession’ of line sitting, you would plan well enough not to need to solicit donations. Personally I hope that everyone who passes you and is inclined to give you money decides to give it to the homeless panhandlers instead – even if they do just buy booze with it, it was better spent.
June 27, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Happy waiting. Hope its worth!
June 27, 2007 at 7:30 pm
I can smell you from here.
PayPal donations for a lazy-ass bum who buys a $500 phone? Get back to work you sack of shit.
June 27, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Im going to fly out to NY so I can tell this fat lazy piece of shit cunt what a twatbag he is to his face.
Donations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
MrC
June 27, 2007 at 7:56 pm
haha it’s about to rain! just heard the thunder coming…good luck! I’d go out with my camera if I thought anyone cared
June 27, 2007 at 8:12 pm
“zxspectrum Says:
genius!!!
this guy is going to sell it on eBay and make a cool 3-4k on it.
zx.”
That won’t be occurring b/c Ebay will remove any iPhone put on their site within a matter of minutes. Apple’s smarter than dumb ass Sony when it comes to this.
June 27, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Dear Blah Blah Blah
Yeah – please go out and get some pics of the fat pig drowning in his own ugliness.
June 27, 2007 at 8:23 pm
Where do you get off asking people to donate money to you? You obviously can’t be working and yet you sit in line to buy a $499.00 phone. And you want me to give YOU money? What a complete asshole. God i hate what we are becoming in this country and people like you are exactly whats ruining it. Get off your lard ass and do some exercise and get a job rather than asking people to give you money to buy an expensive phone. Ignorant moron.
June 27, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Dude-
Don’t you have a job? You are really creeping me out and have for years.
June 27, 2007 at 9:02 pm
Hi Greg!
Hope you’re doing well out there! Everyone else (by the sounds of it) is just jealous that you have time to spare and are getting a name for yourself purely by hanging out and doing nothing! I don’t even want an iPhone, but if I had the choice, I’d be out there sitting around with you!
Have a nice week
June 27, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Greg what a joke you are, get a life……
June 27, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Greg – I hear from some folks in NYC that you’ve been leaving the line to go to a nearby hotel to shower – maybe even a trip home. Keep up that behavior and your spot will be up for grabs in no time. Chump.
June 27, 2007 at 9:48 pm
hey you faggot, your a fucking low life piece of shit, you have no life so you sit in front of lines at big releases for attention. kill your self, do us all a favor, like we would actually donate money to you, you fat piece of shit. why dont you go back to ur moms basement.
June 27, 2007 at 9:50 pm
I hope some random druggie pops you in the head. At least then you would make the 10 o,clock news for something funny.
June 27, 2007 at 9:51 pm
you’re a media whore
June 27, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Anonymous is right.
Go back to your moms basement in your semen splattered underwear and fucking stick a baseball bat up your fat ass you lazy cunt.
June 27, 2007 at 10:11 pm
I think it’s fabulous that’s you’re having fun while doing… people should stop being jealous, or cynical or critical… or just plain rude… remember when we were young and queued up to buy tickets of our favourite band? This is about the passion whilst having a sense of fun and humor… let the man be! Go go Greg, and we want to hear your honest feedback on the phone ASAP!
June 27, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Prozaxgrrl
How can you condone a person who leeches off the state and is only famous for being a lazy bum, who has the balls to ASK for donations?
Its a sad day for common sense…
June 27, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Wow,Listen my problem with you is not that fact that you are waiting for an iphone but that you have apparently waited in every other line for every other thing just to say you were first. This is not good man and if you feel this is your only way for some kind of validation then you have much bigger issues then “wanting to be seen and heard” . Every person on this earth need validation I am not saying that it is a bad thing, it is actually healthy but making it a point to attending 2 media events a week is a sad way to reach out to people. You like many Americans out there want what is known as instant gradification and for you this is it. You sit and wait in a line and do nothing but talk to people. Imagine if you went and sat in a nursing home or a kids hospital those 2 times a week and listened and talked to them. Can you imagine the positive effect you could make on another persons life? Not just yours. Now I am not saying that I do that but then I also don’t have time to sit around in a line and try to get my name in papers. It is people like you that are a part of a bigger problem with our society. Please make a difference get out of line. Let some one who actually want’s the iphone take your place and start doing something positive that doesn’t just effect you directly but other people’s lives in a way that no amount of waiting in line talking to folks can do. Please I beg of you to do this.
June 27, 2007 at 10:24 pm
No, Anonymous is not right, he’s just yet another unoriginal angry little kiddie hiding behind his screen hurling the “mom” insults over nothing. The internet is a great breeding ground for such rude litlte ones, and the rest of these negative fools eg. threatening to go punch someone for waiting in line, and being overweight. You make me laugh. Keep it up nooblets.
June 27, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Most people who camp bring provisions to survive in the wild. You have some nerve asking for donations for food when there are people out there who cant afford food. you must have 500 bucks on you to buy that phone.
June 27, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Greg RULES. He’s exactly the kind of person the world needs more of.
June 27, 2007 at 10:28 pm
AnonymousBabyBoy
Learn how to spell fuck face.
June 27, 2007 at 10:29 pm
Karl,
When I become leader of the world, you will be second in line for getting shot behind Greg.
June 27, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Hey, so what did you do before you retired?
June 27, 2007 at 10:34 pm
@Karl again you are a part of the problem if you believe that. I am not saying that it isn’t ok to get excited about a new product or to stand in line every once in a while for something you really like or believe in. But this man does not do that he does it out of lust to be quoted and to be famous. This doesn’t mean that he is a bad person it just means he has issues he should maybe look into.
June 27, 2007 at 10:34 pm
crb,
I was a professional fluffer before I retired.
June 27, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Hi
For me you seems to be a retard geek, thats all … You are first in line or something ? OMFG ?!?! really ?! who fucking cares, which one you are in line ! All this Apple hype makes me vomit, to be honest.. and also geeks like you.
Have a nice day
June 27, 2007 at 11:59 pm
you’re a fuckin retard.
June 28, 2007 at 12:00 am
wow, now waiting in a line up for an electronic product can make you famous in america, lame lame lame
June 28, 2007 at 12:31 am
Mr Fudge Packer…
I hope you are reading these comments and crying yourself to sleep tonight in your oversized fucking cum stained sleeping bag.
Get a life and stop trying to be famous for being a nobody.
June 28, 2007 at 1:04 am
You are all losers for wasting your life commenting here about this other loser. Oh wait……oops bye!
June 28, 2007 at 1:25 am
Good luck Greg. I think your collection of ‘first in line – waiting experiences’ is an interesting and unique hobby to have.
By the way……..how in the heck do you keep from going insane with boredom while you wait? How do you stay entertained?
If you post some advice, I’ll use it next time I go to the DMV
June 28, 2007 at 1:34 am
I’ve already received an iPhone from inside sources… Sorry to break it to ya, but you’re not the first..
June 28, 2007 at 1:43 am
Man, you’re crazier than the folks to have to have their latest Harry Potter book at midnight the day it’s released.
June 28, 2007 at 1:45 am
More ideas for lines Mr Packer can wait in:-
1) Liposuction surgery
2) Hair transplant
3) Personality transplant
Yeah – thats right – get a fcking life you useless block of lard !!!
June 28, 2007 at 1:49 am
Hi there !
I’ll be in NY on friday…..can you buy one for me ?? I’ll pay you lunch !
Thanks !!
June 28, 2007 at 1:51 am
Is the wi-fi signal there ??
June 28, 2007 at 1:51 am
Hi there !
I’ll be in NY on Friday too… Can I come round and help wheel you into the Apple store you bloated piece of shit ?
Thanks !!
June 28, 2007 at 1:52 am
Does the iphone comes with a victoria secret’s model attached to it ??
If not, whats the rush ???
June 28, 2007 at 2:00 am
My name is Greg Packer. I’m a completely talentless piece of shit with the social skills of a chimpanzee. Im waiting first in line for iPhone in New York City at Apple Store Fifth Avenue near Central Park. I showed up on Monday morning, June 25th, at 5am becuase I have zero friends, zero life and I’m hoping to get beaten to death by a female bum
Please reach out to me by leaving your comments, leaving me a note on MySpace, sending me an email (in fact why not sign me up to every gay porn site in america), or even calling my mobile phone while I am sitting in line. I must be the biggest cockbag in creation for giving my number away online but what-the-heck !!!
Or, hey, come by, just visit and abuse me face to face!
Email: grego11743@hotmail.com
Mobile phone: 631.291.2603
My Space: Greggoes (Yeah – go look at all my sexy girl-friends who I have absolutely NO chance of dating because I am such a fat ugly fucker !!! )
Want to help make my experience sitting in line more comfortable?
Fucking come down and abuse me!!!
Thank you to the iPhoneDevCamp guys – Associating yourself with me is gonna totally fuck you all up beyond belief !!!
Also, please check out my new gay techno nerd friend, David Clayman, who is documenting his experience on his own blog, entitled http://www.im.a.sad.lonely.cnt.com
He’s third in line!
Im a turd in line!
June 28, 2007 at 2:06 am
Hahahahaha
June 28, 2007 at 2:30 am
This is pathetic. You know, I’m sitting here worrying about paying my hospital bills for my chemotherapy and the rest of my cancer treatments. I can’t imagine being able to waste time sitting in a line for several days along with wasting money on a stupid cell phone. I could only hope to “squander” money on things like hospital bills, let alone a cell phone. You really need to get a life and stop asking people to give you money when we are trying to pay for real things.
June 28, 2007 at 2:44 am
Wow your a saaaaad old man…
Get back to digging holes you media whore
June 28, 2007 at 3:02 am
What a Douche…. I bet you only buy the shitty 4g phone too… I wanna be on TV!!!! I need attention!!!! Fuck you.. I’m going down to My local Cingular store that I’ve been using for years and Picking up my Iphone without a wait.., as I know the Manager and have better things to do…
June 28, 2007 at 3:32 am
Hi,
I don’t know why people care about the personal background of someone in a queue, or what that person’s motivations are for being in the queue.
Last time I checked there weren’t certain criteria one had to meet in order to wait for a product to go on sale.
Are these people being rude because they are jealous? or because you are not like them? because you aren’t like the ‘mac guy’ in the apple commercials?
I think it’s interesting that your waiting in line has raised such a strong response from so many people. You must have shattered an image they have of what the first-person-waiting-in-line-for-the-almighty-iPhone should be like.
I hope you have a nice time waiting and enjoy the phone, how ever you decide to use it.
June 28, 2007 at 3:48 am
wow, dude, you’re wasting ur time and want people 2 donate 4 ur stupidity, r u fucking nutz?
June 28, 2007 at 4:21 am
wow, these comments are more entertaining than Gregs choice of ‘holiday adventure’.
Most revealing are the hate-comments. Gregs behaviour does not compute into my little world so so I’m gonna just lash out with something really witty like, um, ‘fuck you you sad fat cunt’. LOL
And as for anonymous, real sorry to hear about your cancer buddy, sersiously, but let me apologize on behalf of Greg and the rest of the world for not stopping our lives while we wait upon the outcome of your chemo. The world doesn’t stop just because you can’t imagine having fun at the moment, just as it didn’t stop when I was in hospital for my penis reduction (to a more modest 10″)
In fatct I really hope Greg does get a load of donations, and *is* the first to get an iphone, and gets a huge interview on CNN and an invite to Letterman, just because it would really piss so many of you off. Now *that* would be entertaining…
June 28, 2007 at 4:39 am
I’m donating the man money as we speak. Oh, what’s that? I should give money to someone more deserving? You don’t have money for your chemo?
Well, Screw You. He can do what he wants and so can i.
June 28, 2007 at 4:53 am
Dweiner or should we call you …. Greg Packer.
Seperated at birth?
Are you a filthy fat bastard with no social skills as well?
If you think its cool to slag off a guy with cancer by talking about your 10mm cock then you deserve the same treatment FatBoyPacker has received.
I hope you fucking die a painful miserable death.
June 28, 2007 at 4:56 am
thats ’separated’ LOL
June 28, 2007 at 5:16 am
Oxford Dictionary: “Seperated”
Its called the english language for a reason you dumb US fuckwit.
LOL
June 28, 2007 at 5:20 am
Oh and BTW,
If it assuages your delicate ego to think of me as a fat lonely loser with a small dick and no social skills then I hope you feel happier. To quote Dr Phil – “How’s that working for you?”
If you read my post carefully I am not slagging off the guy with cancer, its a horrible thing and I woudn’t wish it on anyone. I was commenting on his attitude to Greg enjoying himself while he can’t. Similar to many other posters who for whatever reason can’t be sitting on the streets of Manhatten watching the world go by. I’m writing this at work and would love to be able to take a week off to sit around NY, but I don’t begrudge Greg for being able to do so.
Greg, if you are reading this, I don’t agree with what you are doing on a number of levels, but hey man, its your life and your choice. I truly hope you are having a good time
June 28, 2007 at 5:25 am
If you google the phrase ’seperated at birth’ you get 304,000 responses. If you google the phrase ’separated at birth’ you get 2,140,000. Go figure.
And I’m not American, either. You know what they say about people who assume things…
June 28, 2007 at 6:05 am
Dude, get a life, lose 74 lbs and ditch the comb-over. You give middle aged fat americans a bad name
June 28, 2007 at 6:06 am
Yeah – it does make me feel happier
Hahaha…
June 28, 2007 at 7:47 am
Hello Greg,
This is Kristof from Belgium. I only want to sa, don’t give up. If you wanna have something in your life, and you wanna have it first, you have to wait.. and wait.. For example, on a wife, if you want her, … wait… and you gonna have her.. same with the I-phone. You gonna enjoy it!
Good Luck,
Kristof from Antwerp
June 28, 2007 at 7:59 am
Those leaving messages such as “get a life” may consider what makes their lives so interesting. Why not start your own blogs, ask for donations and see how much you get. Today’s post: “Spent half an hour of my life reading about Greg Packer on the internet – what a loser. Left message saying so. That’ll show him” Hmm, very interesting. Greg’s life is far more interesting than yours will ever be. Go Greg, you are what makes America great! You are the Zelig of American zeitgeist. Apple should give you a free phone, you should sign the box and Ebay it immediately. And don’t give the money to charity!
June 28, 2007 at 8:21 am
да на нах! Отписался
June 28, 2007 at 8:24 am
Only in the US you’ll find people doing such a thing over a stupid cell phone…. Thinking that there are people in the world who have no food or drinks…..let alone 500 $ for a cell phone.
Do something worthy….
June 28, 2007 at 8:31 am
I read somewhere that the apple store won’t let you charge your ohone while you wait in cue?!?!?!? How weird! Don’t they know that the press is trying to reach you from around the world to talk about this huge event?!
Good on ya champ and don’t forget your sunscreen!
June 28, 2007 at 8:32 am
Thanks for the laugh Greg, you pitiful soul. And you think people will give you money via PayPal. Ha! Ha! Ha!
Congratulations on your 15 minutes of fame – I’m sure it will follow you the rest of your life and you when you are 50 years old and still being called the “iPhone-whackjob” you will curse the day you ever wasted your time queueing up for this gadget.
June 28, 2007 at 8:38 am
hello
wish you also good luck. from berlin, germany. i saw you a few minutes ago in an cnn report and i need also say you really crazy. i never would do somthing like you to get an mobile phone
kind regards
Oliver
June 28, 2007 at 8:41 am
Hi Man!
Best wishes from Barcelona!!
June 28, 2007 at 9:17 am
Greg Packer (born December 18, 1963), an American highway maintenance worker from Huntington, New York, has been quoted in more than 100 articles and television broadcasts as a member of the public (that is, a person on the street rather than a newsmaker or expert).
Packer’s status as a frequent interviewee came about due to his hobby of attending public appearances of celebrities and other media events and being first in line on such occasions. He has consequently had the opportunity to meet people including Mariah Carey, Garth Brooks, Dennis Rodman, and Ringo Starr, as well as at least three presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. [1], [2]
His run in the press seems to have started with a quotation in The Tampa Tribune of October 6, 1995:
“The Jewish people are fans of Pope John Paul II,” said Greg Packer of Huntington, N.J. “He doesn’t limit his message to one faith; he reaches out to everybody.”
Although the Tribune quote identifies Packer’s home state as New Jersey rather than New York, this is Packer’s first newspaper appearance to have been identified so far.
According to a 2002 article about Packer, “He was first in the line to see ground zero when the viewing platform opened at the World Trade Center site December 30 [2001]. He was the first in line in 1997 to sign the condolence book at the British consulate when Princess Diana died. He slept outside in the snow in Washington in January 2001 to be the first in line to greet President George W. Bush after his inauguration.” [3]
Due to Packer’s appearances at these media events, he came to be quoted by reporters attending the events. Unlike many attendees, Packer was willing to be quoted: as he explained in 2004, “I always come up with an answer for everything, number one. And … I always give everybody … the respect and the time that they need.” His quotes ranged from the expression of common sentiments, such as “It’s a day for happiness and to be together,” regarding a St. Patrick’s Day parade [4], to colorful statements such as his opinion of a New York Yankees game played on Yom Kippur: “There’s no way the Yankees will lose, but if they do, they’ll certainly have something to atone for.” [5]
In June 2003, columnist Ann Coulter and blogger Mickey Kaus, commenting on media coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s memoir Living History, noted that Packer was “the centerpiece of The New York Times’ ‘man on the street’ interview about Hillary-mania.” Packer had been quoted in the Times as stating, “I’m a big fan of Hillary and Bill’s. I want to change her mind about running for president. I want to be part of her campaign.” Coulter pointed out:
It was easy for the Times to spell Packer’s name right because he is apparently the entire media’s designated “man on the street” for all articles ever written. He has appeared in news stories more than 100 times as a random member of the public. Packer was quoted on his reaction to military strikes against Iraq; he was quoted at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Veterans Day Parade. He was quoted at not one — but two — New Year’s Eve celebrations at Times Square. He was quoted at the opening of a new “Star Wars” movie, at the opening of an H&M clothing store on Fifth Avenue and at the opening of the viewing stand at Ground Zero. He has been quoted at Yankees games, Mets games, Jets games — even getting tickets for the Brooklyn Cyclones. He was quoted at a Clinton fund-raiser at Alec Baldwin’s house in the Hamptons and the pope’s visit to Giants stadium. [6]
The “more than 100″ Packer appearances included quotes in the New York Post, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Times, as well as appearances on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. [7]
As a result of Coulter’s column, Packer was profiled in his own right by the New York Times. [8] The Associated Press sent out a memo to its news editors and correspondents, stating in part: “The world is full of all kinds of interesting people. One of them is Greg Packer of Huntington, N.Y., who apparently lives to get his name on the AP wire and in other media. It works: A Nexis search turned up 100 mentions in various publications. … Mr. Packer is clearly eager to be quoted. Let’s be eager, too — to find other people to quote.” [9]]]
After the ubiquity of Packer’s quotes became public, he was still quoted and referred to occasionally, but sometimes with more disclosure of his identity provided. When Bill Clinton began his book tour for his memoir My Life, Packer was first in line for Clinton’s first signing; a 2004 New York Times article on Clinton’s appearance referred to Packer as “Greg Packer, 40, wearing a New York Yankees shirt, who has been cultivating the press for several years now and manages to attend at least two news events a week.” [10]
Nevertheless, not all journalists include such disclaimers; an EpochTimes.com article in 2005 on the release of the novel Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince simply stated: “The book buyers, mostly adults, were largely local fans, like Greg Packer of Long Island, 41, who admitted he had not yet read all the previous editions.” [11] Similarly, when Packer attended the Super Bowl victory rally for the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2006, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review identified him only as “Greg Packer, 42, a lifelong Steelers fan from Huntington, N.Y.” [12]
Greg Packer is first in line to purchase an iPhone at the Apple Store Fifth Avenue, New York. He has been camping out in front of the store since 5:00 am on Monday, June 25, 2007. He is maintaining a blog about his experience, on which he solicits for donations via PayPal.
June 28, 2007 at 10:29 am
Stay cool out there, it’s hot as hell in NYC!
June 28, 2007 at 10:54 am
1 day,
5 hours,
5 minutes,
21 seconds
LEFT
June 28, 2007 at 11:42 am
Мужчина, вы сказочный долбоёб.
June 28, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Hey Greg, Mom sez to pick up a gallon of milk and some more terlet paper on your way home. Saw you got baked and soaked yesterday. Ha ha – SQUARED! Your brother, Fudge
June 28, 2007 at 1:04 pm
[...] The 5th Avenue Apple Store already has campers! WOW. [...]
June 28, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Good luck from Chile!!!
June 28, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Good luck from Japan!
I wanna this cool one, please someone buy it and sell me please!
Best regards!
June 28, 2007 at 2:17 pm
This is the same “Fudge” Packer who was in line for my signing! What a nutbag! He’s a borderline retard with no sense (of personal hygene, especially!) at all. He just likes to have siomeone read his name to him in the papers or see his ugly mask/greasy head on TV! Like a shaved chimpanzee reacting to his image. Jimmy Carter told me the Secret Service almost threw this jackoff out of the bookstore when he thought someone tried to cut him in line for HIS booksigning (he was sitting on the floor playing with an Etch-A-Sketch and missed the line moving – I’m serious!) The funniest story about Fudge Packer is when he was 1st in line for Yankee WS tix and fell asleep in his own filth in his sleeping bag. The ticket windows opened and Fudge continued to visit Liberace in dreamland….the line moved with everyone just stepping over the sleeping Fudge to get their tix! This tool is more to be pitied than laughed at – his brother is an only-child. He’s a simpleton who has a town job that you basically have to kill someone to get fired from. His mother must have blown the mayor for years in order to have such a political favor as the hiring of her mongoloid son bestowed upon her. Just think – where does this wombat go to the bathroom while he’s polluting a Manhattan sidewalk for a week? We know he doesn’t wash his hands. Just think – he’s on line to supposedly buy a $500 item – and he’s asking peiople for money!!!! EVERYONE KNOWS this turd burglar does not purchase ANY of the items he stands in line for – he just wants to be recognized as the freak that he is! This gamey, grimey, gimme-seeker is should be the poster child for abortion and is living proof that the Indians did indeed fuck buffalos. ATT should have him arrested.
June 28, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Hi dere Mista President! In ansa to yor question, I shit my pants.
June 28, 2007 at 2:29 pm
TO ALL MEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE COME DOWN AND USE ME AS A URINAL!!!!!
And please visit my new website at: http://www.pushinmystool.com
June 28, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Good luck with your quest to get the new iPhone. If you e-mail me a screenshot of your PayPal history of donations you got from this wait, I’ll send you $5 USD.
haha
June 28, 2007 at 2:53 pm
ENJOY your I-Phone we have a line already as well good luck JACKSON
June 28, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Get a life
June 28, 2007 at 3:20 pm
I like what you are doing. Thank’s for making a blog so that I could tell you that.
June 28, 2007 at 3:36 pm
I love these comments. The negative ones are truly a snapshot of American’s today. Angry and pissed off at what others are doing with their lives. The man may not be all that great to look at. But from marketing terms…the SOB as branded his own name, not easy to do on a grand scale like he has successfully done. If you disagree; may I remind you that you are at his BLOG but do not know who the hell he is. There may not be much of a point to it in our eyes, but this guy has a purpose in his own. What do you sad lonely little mamas boys do with your lives. Wank it to online porn and cut down other human beings…not that is something to be envied. I say right on who gives a shit if he actually buys the damn phone or not…he has successfully gotten his name out there yet again. Now here we all are talking are at least reading about him.
Oh…and to the person named “Bill Clinton,” Could you be more openly homosexual yourself. Seriously, only a man that is afraid of his own true sexuality would rant so much about how gay someone else is. And to another point…was it necessary to make such an ugly and racist comment about Indians? Your parents must be very proud of you. You fucking tool.
June 28, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Good luck man….you rock!!!!!!!
Get an iphone and let us all know how it is…..keep posting dammit!!!!
June 28, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Are you people serious?
This man has been called fag, cunt, retard, idiot, been told to get aids and die, and been called a fucking idiot/loser/moron more times than I can count.
You have insulted his appearance and his weight and made a long list of other assumptions about a man you don’t even know.
At some point in our lives we are all going to wait for something that other people will find stupid (no, not just material things). So, when that time comes, do you want people being so insanely cruel to you?
There are some folks out there that are so damn unhappy about their own lives that they can only feel good for a few seconds by making others feel horrible.
Greg, have fun with your new toy and a big rousing Piss Off to the jealous folks who want to steal everyone else’s fun!
June 28, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Is your cell not working???
Verizon!!! better change that ..lol
Get the phone charged…we need to talk…
June 28, 2007 at 4:35 pm
…
You are one sad mofo.
June 28, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Hay good luck I met you at 12.30PM I was talking about the Iphone and other phones that are far more advance than the I phone from the far east.
Hey good luck and hope you enjoy your phone.
June 28, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Hi David, hope you are keeping well, and keep up and not long to go.
I am sorry I was not able to come and meet you the next day As I had some meetings and had to catch my flight back to London.
Good Luck to you pal
June 28, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Everyone that spent time reading through this only to post a comment about what this guy should or could be doing with his time must have donated an equal amount of time to charity or some worthy cause…otherwise we have a long long list of hypocrites.
He’s doing what he likes to do with his time, you’re doing what you like to do with your time, neither activity does one thing to help anyone else, better society, save the earth, etc.
If you don’t want to give him money for doing this, then how about you simply avoid giving him any and go about your business?
I am interested in the iPhone. I like reading about things I’m interested in. This has been a fun read. The time I’ve spent doing it (on my lunch) didn’t do one thing to improve anyone else’s life. I’m content with that.
Enjoy the wait and thanks for the fun read!
June 28, 2007 at 5:02 pm
To “Doesn’t Matter”…..I knew you’d come back and see the response…get the last word in too, you twat. Eat shit, you AIDS-wracked, pickle puffing ball sack. I bet your 2 fathers are proud of you too, dickhead! If you’re an Indian, you DO fuck buffalos….if not, whatever you are sucks. Please think of the worst ethnic slur for whatever you are….GOOD! Now THAT’s YOU! AND your father, who is probably over on the turnpike drilling holes in the stalls at the Vince Lombardi Rest Area. Your poor mother is most likely dead of embarassment for having suck a mutant slide out of her clapper.
And you let the “mongoloid” comment slide?? You prejudiced, self-righteous cockhead. You are Packer’s toilet tissue.
Oh yeah, and Packer’s a moreon, retard, etc.
June 28, 2007 at 5:16 pm
To all the Euro-weeds and uninformed Americans assholes like the self-righteous skank DOESNT MATTER….most of the people beating on PACKER here DO know him and his antics, haven’t you read the stories? As a collector of signed books myself, he has been annoying to me and others for years, not only in off-kilter (ok, nutty:-) antics, but by turning-off the celebrity at whatever event it was before you even GET to them, through his unhinged behavior. So YOU piss off!
June 28, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Respect dude!
June 28, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Just wanted to say that Greg you are a disgrace to all mankind….It’s no wonder that you are a fat ass cow!!! All those line-sittings you’ve done has been a waste of time. You probably aren’t even going to be using the iPhone. I hope that once you get it God strikes you done for being such a waste to Society!!!! Fucking SCUM bag!
June 28, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Johnny
Dont worry…
The twats fingers are so fat he’ll never be able to use the touch sensitive buttons.
June 28, 2007 at 6:42 pm
300th post. 300 people in line. Amazing.
See you in line Greg!
http://ThunkDifferent.
June 28, 2007 at 7:28 pm
i just watched a video of the line at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZQAd_E7BvU and didn’t see you.
Is this a joke site or something?
June 28, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Sos un reverendo pelotudazo y un hijo de mil putas
June 28, 2007 at 7:47 pm
deja de drogarte flaco. que al pedo que vivis. haciendo una cola asi para comprar un cel.
se nota que tu vida es una mierda y no tenes nada mejor que hacer.
saludos y espero que el telefonito este te active un poquito las neuronas.
vos si que sos un verdadero pelotudo
June 28, 2007 at 7:57 pm
che gordito? porque no te dejas de joder! Pedis dinero para comprarte un celular? Primero ponete a laburar, segundo dale sentido a tu vida y tercero hay gente en el mundo que se muere realmente de hambre porque no tiene opcion, y no como vos q es para ir a comprar un telefono.
Si no tenes guita no te compres nada, y si tenes no pidas.
Pelotudo de mierda, hijo de puta, mama pollas.
Anda a cagar!! CARETAAA!!
ojala no te funcione esa verga, xq aunque te funcione con tan poco cerebro q tenes no creo q lo entiendas.
chau
June 28, 2007 at 8:00 pm
SOS UN PELOTUDOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
June 28, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Greg,
Heard you on KTRS Radio in St. Louis, this morning–gotta admit I admire your chutzpah!
As for the nasty, negative remarks here, ignore ‘em (those clowns remind me of a similar lot that posts messages on walmartwatch.com)–you got your 15 minutes of fame, right?
Keep the Faith,
BR
June 28, 2007 at 8:08 pm
People. Leave this guy alone. Let him do with his life exactly what he wants. Who cares? Who the hell are you, intruders?
Don’t forget this is HIS (not yours) blog!
Who is wasting more time? He by lining to buy the IPhone? Or you by visiting his blog to critizise him?
Of course YOU!
Hey Gente, Dejen a este hombre tranquilo. Déjenlo hacer con su vida lo que él quiera. Quién demonio son ustedes, Legión de Intrusos!
NO olviden que este sitio es SU Blog, y NO el de nadie mas.
Quién está perdiendo mas tiempo? El, haciendo la linea para comprar con SU dinero el IPhone? O el que visita este blog para criticar a este caballero?
Por su puesto que él NO es.
June 28, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Hey Greg,
I just saw you on Headline News and have to say I’m glad you will get your iphone.
I myself sat in line for hours and hours back when the Playstation 2 came out and waited in line for tickets to go see Star Wars Ep 1 midnight show back in ‘99.
While the waiting really sucks, the end result is priceless.
Good luck and best wishes.
June 28, 2007 at 8:26 pm
So Johnny, if Greg is a disgrace to all mankind, you must be um, a shining example of all thats good in mankind? riiiiiiggggght.
And Bill Clinton. does your mum know that you are up late using rude words you learnt in the playground??? Keep it up buddy, that purile diatribe made me LOL
0 sleeps to go…
June 28, 2007 at 9:04 pm
I guess you need a jesus phone to know Jesus. Jesus will take away your loneliness and bring joy. While you are here waiting you have angels around you, giving you a hedge of protection. if you ever want to chat you can contact me
June 28, 2007 at 9:26 pm
This guy’s a jackass. He’s always trying to get media coverage for showing up first for events… who gives a crap? What people care about is wanting to hear something intelligent from someone interesting… not random spew from a moron like this.
June 28, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Here at apple, you are our hero!
Good luck.
June 28, 2007 at 9:59 pm
are you a idiot?? go work!!
June 28, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Wow you’ve been there awhile. i’m so glad I live in chicago… Chicago is to lazy to sit that many days outside… maybe it’s all the good food… but more power to you. I’m actually the first in line here at Michigan Ave… in chicago… i’m looking forward to buying the phone… take care… tyler enjoy your iphone… later
June 28, 2007 at 10:18 pm
…kill me.
June 28, 2007 at 10:20 pm
wash me
June 28, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Still trying to impress us all with your vocabulary I see…
Hahaha.
June 28, 2007 at 10:37 pm
dude, it’s a phone…
June 28, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Mate, this is pointless. What would be really admirable is if you waited til the doors opened on Friday and held up a sign saying “Worldwide Corporations Suck” or something similar. Then just walk away, content that you’re not part of this disgusting lusting for annoying gadgets that don’t actually make your life happier. Go on, do it. Walk away. You can. You are in control.
June 28, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Dude,
Do not let the iLoser shit get you down.
Everyone needs a hobby and few get attention
and give a laugh with theirs.
You remind me of the dudes who tried to get into famous photos.
…kind of a Where’s Waldo in reality.
Stay weird!
xrz1138
June 28, 2007 at 11:01 pm
wow
you are some angry people.
What i would be interested in knowing. Is Greg is an expert in media and waiting in lines. How does wainting in a line with the apple distortion field at full power compare?
Personaly i think there are alot worse hobbies for people to do when they retire. eg sitting watching day time TV. At least he is actually interacting with people.
Greg let us also know your thoughts on all the apple fanboys, fangirls, zelots, haters etc you have met over your 5 days
cheers from across the pond
June 28, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Good luck man! Hope you can post some reviews on here as soon as you got it
June 28, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Hey Dude.
ah. Iphone is just a phone…… $399 or $499 and $60 a month for two year?
June 28, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Oh BTW, Greg, as soon as you get your iPhone jump into the line for the opening of the Transformers movie. Apart from being a little Speilberg-ish in places and pandering to a teenage audience, it has some kick-arse action scenes.
Actually the bit in the movie where the mobile phone transforms into a mini-robot complete with chain-gun and rocket launcher is quite cool. Now if the iPhone could do that…
Just remember to turn your iPhone off in the cinema
Nothing makes you look more of an inconsiderate dickhead than having your phone go off in the cinema, or having to txt someone during a movie. Except tattoo-ing ‘I am an inconsiderate dickhead’ on your forehead, of course…
June 29, 2007 at 12:02 am
First, he’s not “retired”. Second, he’s not going to buy the damn phone(unless he gets all those Paypal donations–which I’m sure he wouldn’t spend on the iPhone anyway). Therefore he won’t “review” it, talk about it or ON it.
He doesn’t even OWN any apple products, he’s not a “fan” and is only in the line for one reason: he’s a famewhore. A really annoying one. It’s a kind of a game, apparently, for him to be interviewed over and over and see himself quoted, but he lies for 99.9% of his press ops. He pretends to be a fan of whatever it is just to be quoted, and zeroes in on reporters begging to be interviewed while offering nothing..it’s pathetic and definitely unworthy of any further media attention. Hopefully the press(the AP already has)will completely ignore him in the future.
And as for those dummies who spew THEIR hatred at those who have the balls to comment here saying mean ol’ nasty things: hey, any fool can enable comment monitoriing if they can’t take it/don’t like it. ALL this gu wants is attention. he is as happy with angry comments as nice ones, so long as the numbers go up. He’s a phony and a loser, and so far I’ve got as much right to post the facts about his lame-ass “hobby”(also on Wikipedia)as he does to put a friggin’ Paypal button on his blog.
I’m sure he can deal–find someone a teensy bit more worthy to defend to the death, why don’t you? Sheesh.
June 29, 2007 at 12:08 am
Dude I think what you are doing is really amazing and I wish to support you in any way I can. Please call me at 1-405-371-5042 so I know where to send my donations! Please reply back! Good luck with your phone!
June 29, 2007 at 1:09 am
hey the guy is waiting for a phone if thats what he wants to do then let him do it go 4 it man.
June 29, 2007 at 1:25 am
ha ha! asking for money while waiting for a $500 gadget… brilliant.
June 29, 2007 at 1:26 am
greg,
This is steve with Apple. I have some bad news for you. The iphone will not be available for one more year. Keep your spot in line though because you look really stupid there and id hate to see you lose your loser fame.
June 29, 2007 at 1:33 am
Just in case you hadn’t realized it yet…the most important people who want one…already have one – you stupid idiot! You’re just the type of person Steve Jobs wants to pull in – Idiots with money.
June 29, 2007 at 1:36 am
You are really hot, especially looking all sweaty. I may come down and visit you. I want you!!!!
June 29, 2007 at 1:41 am
You cant have him.
He mine!
He mine I tell you .
I love him long long time !!!
June 29, 2007 at 1:42 am
people grew up this greg packer or parker, as he goes by to get in the spotlight these days cause the media is aware of his antics, is a loser.
years ago he dated a friend of mine and nobody liked him back then just look at him hes not retired he doesn’t work hes only on line for the media coverage i’m going down tomorrow to publically humilate him
June 29, 2007 at 1:44 am
Reave him arone.
He’s my Mr Dudrey !!!
June 29, 2007 at 1:45 am
What a dumb ASS!!
June 29, 2007 at 1:45 am
I would love to be there, but I don’t know if I can make it. In fact, why don’t people show up at 5:30 to humiliate this loser.
June 29, 2007 at 1:51 am
Greg,
Wondering if you’ll keep your mobile number or change it AFTER getting your new phone?
With it out in the wild, i’m sure you’ll get lots of nuts calling. i might even call just to see how the reception is – you know – for research purposes.
Good luck…you’ve made quite a name for yourself. Good for you…screw the malcontents!
June 29, 2007 at 2:02 am
Way to beg for money for food so you can sit on your fat ass.
your everything wrong with america.
June 29, 2007 at 2:06 am
My name is Greg Packer. I’m a completely talentless piece of shit with the social skills of a chimpanzee. Im waiting first in line for iPhone in New York City at Apple Store Fifth Avenue near Central Park. I showed up on Monday morning, June 25th, at 5am becuase I have zero friends, zero life and I’m hoping to get beaten to death by a female bum
Please reach out to me by leaving your comments, leaving me a note on MySpace, sending me an email (in fact why not sign me up to every gay porn site in america), or even calling my mobile phone while I am sitting in line. I must be the biggest cockbag in creation for giving my number away online but what-the-heck !!!
Or, hey, come by, just visit and abuse me face to face!
Email: grego11743@hotmail.com
Mobile phone: 631.291.2603
My Space: Greggoes (Yeah – go look at all my sexy girl-friends who I have absolutely NO chance of dating because I am such a fat ugly fucker !!! )
Want to help make my experience sitting in line more comfortable?
Fucking come down and abuse me!!!
Thank you to the iPhoneDevCamp guys – Associating yourself with me is gonna totally fuck you all up beyond belief !!!
Also, please check out my new gay techno nerd friend, David Clayman, who is documenting his experience on his own blog, entitled http://www.im.a.sad.lonely.cnt.com
He’s third in line!
Im a turd in line!
June 29, 2007 at 2:09 am
I like loads of chocolate pudding.
June 29, 2007 at 2:30 am
Shamless self promotion works for Paris Hilton, why not some random dude in line for a cell phone? On the other hand, at least Paris gets paid for her promotions; you’re just sad.
June 29, 2007 at 2:33 am
what a looser… lets all watch this pig sink!!!!
June 29, 2007 at 3:54 am
You’re waiting to get a high priced, consumer electronics gadget that, frankly, you really don’t need. You’re asking for donations to help you in this endeavor. Being this is New York City, I wonder how many people are also in the sweltering heat, seeking donations, but a high priced gadget isn’t on their minds – food and comfort from the sweltering heat are more on their agendas.
No wonder most of the modern world things we’re a screwed up country. Good thing I scrolled through here and discovered the bit about this person’s attenton-getting need to be “first” stunts. sad.
PS – Anyone counted the number of homophobic comments here? seem to be a few.
June 29, 2007 at 4:27 am
Well, once again apple is going to rip off the consumer.How dare they dictate what phone comp one has to use ,shame on them. Apple, all they care about is making a profit. What other mobile co dictates what service you have to use. Just like the ipod and I have a first generation ipod at a cost 1100 Au and the only choice I have is to download from itunes and even then when I had a problem with a downloaded audiobook at a cost $30 au. I was unable to get the problem fixed.Apple all they do is take your money and run.
Try e-mailing apple or itunes when you have a problem with the device.
Try making contact with iphone when the iphone does not do what it’s suppose to do, you will be up the proverbial creek!
( buyers will also have to sign up to a two-year contract mobile phone company AT&T and face a charge of $US175 if they break it.)
I would like to know what service the Aussie will be tied up to for two years, we already have the most expensive mobile phone service in the world!
June 29, 2007 at 4:28 am
[...] The 5th Avenue Apple Store already has campers! WOW. [...]
June 29, 2007 at 5:00 am
Greg – you are advertising that you are a complete loser. I hope you realize that?
Hint: you can wait a week to get an iPhone without a LINE.
Keep eating those donated cheesepoofs and french fries belly boy.
I thought I was a loser, but damm son you seem proud of being a loser! At least I am trying to break my horrible ‘loser’ image. How about you join the Army and serve your commander-in-chief by going to Iraq?? From one loser to another,
Yours Truly,
G.W. Bush
June 29, 2007 at 5:13 am
I think it’s great, Greg! Keep up the good work – electronics are life – we’re smarter than all these whiners! And I love those chips too!! See ya in line!
June 29, 2007 at 5:17 am
Greg- you really are the epitome of how the average American has become a loser in the eyes of the world. You know Greg, it’s one thing to be a LOSER, but to advertise your LOSER STATUS on national TV is even more pathetic…
June 29, 2007 at 5:30 am
f*ckin’ first poster…
June 29, 2007 at 5:55 am
Evil Idea, buy him a freshjuice put some Valium in it, or laxative, and give it to him at 5pm Friday)) with that huge ggrin on your face and “I’m really proud of you mate!” imagine, if he missed it in WC around somewhere or sleeping on that chair at 6:10pm
June 29, 2007 at 6:25 am
Yea you have a better chance winning the H700 on egmcartech.com than you do getting an iPhone tomorrow
June 29, 2007 at 6:37 am
Un saludo desde Sevilla (Spain), suerte y disfrútalo.
June 29, 2007 at 7:17 am
Too interesting to read those negative comments… you all, in fact, are the loosers, having such a bad time just by knowing there’s a crazy one waiting in front of the NY Apple Store.
I mean, really, this phenomenon is weird: Those hefty negative emotional reactions – not the guy waiting for his iphone and, of course, getting his 1 week fame.
greg, take care, and it easy
June 29, 2007 at 9:41 am
Article on Greg in a big german daily newspaper:
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt6m2/panorama/artikel/107/120952/
June 29, 2007 at 9:48 am
No life..Ò.ó
June 29, 2007 at 9:59 am
FUCK YOU ASSHOLE, your life is a shit, LISMONERO DE MIERDA
June 29, 2007 at 10:06 am
[...] recently, he is credited as being the first in line to purchase a iPhone at the Apple Store at Fifth Avenue in New York. He began camping in front of the store at 5:00 a.m. [...]
June 29, 2007 at 10:13 am
greg – idiot
June 29, 2007 at 10:33 am
freakin idiot!
June 29, 2007 at 10:34 am
Not really sure why there are so many people bashing you. Apparently, it is them with no life.This is completely your choice. Hope you enjoy your phone when you get it. A little too depp for my pockets at the moment. But hopefully I will be able to get one at the beginning of the New Year! Good luck on your last day of waiting.
June 29, 2007 at 10:45 am
Hey Greg…
About how many people are in line now???? I want to come up there?
June 29, 2007 at 11:13 am
Comments on the above….President Cinton is closest to hitting the nail on the head. Anyone who has seen this clown’s act in NYC knows it as well. Lisa, please don’t make yourself look silly by defending Mr. Circumference. You’re “not really sure why” he’s being bashed…read the evidence and SEE why. He’d attend the opening of an envelope if there was a chance to see his name in the paper.
The person who said Pecker has no intention of buying the product (or any product he queues for) and that his quotes are lies is right, too. Pecker even admits it.
“Retired” was a type…RETARDED is what they meant.
He makes fools of the media, and they deserve it.
For those worrid that I’m dedicating my time to this post, thanks for your concern, but concern yourself WITH yourself, and YOUR time, not mine.
One more thing…..Fudge Packer takes it in the turd tunnel !!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
June 29, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Scenes from the line in New York, dawn on the final day:
http://cbs2.com/slideshows/photoalbum_slideshow_180082829/
June 29, 2007 at 1:03 pm
When Ann Coulter first exposed him, my first reaction was “this couldnt possibly be the same Greg Packer, the one I knew was borderline retarded.” He puts butter on oyster crackers, you know those little Pepperidge Farm oyster crackers they serve in restaurants? I would imagine he puts butter on anything; he just seems like the type. He puts mayonnaise on aspirin.
A group of us did in fact know him 20 or so years ago for a little while when he started dating a friend (if you scroll up, you will see the person “Stop writing about this loser,” that is someone from this group). That’s how I know about the oyster crackers. He just seemed like a big doofis back then, and his father had gotten him a job with the Town of Huntington Highway Dept. because there really wasnt much he was intellectually equipped to perform.
So, in some strange way, I’m glad the moron is having more than his 15 minutes of fame for doing something that is relatively easy to do, which i know more people would do if they had the time. I remember reading about him standing on a line to be the first to buy a Harry Potter book, then admitting to the reporter he hadn’t read “ALL” the books yet. HELLO! Of course not. The guy can’t read. So, it’s not about the product, it’s not about the ends, it’s about the means. He just likes being in line.
He’d show up to the opening of an envelope if he thought a reporter would be there. Most media outlets have him on blackout now, so he has gotten into self promotion, getting a MySpace page (and actually having more than just Tom as a friend), aligning himself with other losers on the Internet to form some type of idiot’s coalition.
I hate saying it, but Packer is a startling success story, literally a borderline retard who found something he was good at (sitting) and turned it into a vehicle for fame (but not fortune). I think his parents have a little money, and he probably still lives with them, so he doesnt need to concern himself with paying bills, being responsible, etc.
June 29, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Kudos!! Good Luck!!
June 29, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Ohh yeah! He looks lazy, he looks really a lazy person with no responsabilities, and even have the nerves to ask for donations that’s fucking amazing.
June 29, 2007 at 2:16 pm
why so much fuzz on a person like this. they should be ignored…
June 29, 2007 at 2:21 pm
STOP giving this guy any credit HES A LOSER he used to date a friend of mine years ago. So I know first hand
June 29, 2007 at 2:23 pm
yo Greggo!! I met this man at the 94 NHL all star game when he jumped into Bruce McNalls (owner of the LA Kings) limo and almost got killed. Then I was shocked to see him make an appearance in the HBO documetary “Nine Innings to Ground Zero”. He is everywhere.
June 29, 2007 at 2:30 pm
[...] 5th Ave. store, NYC”. Der Mann hat sogar für seine Warterei auf das iPhone einen Blog angelegt. Wie sich heraus stellt, scheint er ein professioneller “Jedermann” zu sein, [...]
June 29, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Greg, I can tell by the picture that you’re a “stunning” guy and quite possibly, I’m gonna take a guess that you’re a bachelor at your “ripe” age. Guys like you need to get a job, and do your parents a favor by stop “mooching” off of them! Perhaps you can use that phone to fend off the creditors that’ll be calling you up (or all the women that you’re with and meet on a nightly basis on line). Well good luck to you and and your partner which you blow up every night!!
June 29, 2007 at 2:40 pm
get a job
June 29, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Greg has a simple purpose: getting attention for being first in line at whatever occasion that will draw some public interest. And he’s good at it – just look at the response this blog receives. So what? Of course sitting 5 days in front of a shop is a completey useless activity and it’s also brazen to ask for donations for it but I cannot understand the torrent of hatred this harmless quirk has triggered. Being a hatemonger is not superior to being an attention whore.
June 29, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Dude …. once you get your hands on that sucker …. don’t drop it :I)
June 29, 2007 at 3:06 pm
TO ALL. JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THIS GUY CRAVES ATTENTION. DO NOT MAKE ANY POSTS AFTER THIS. IF YOU DONT LIKE IT.
June 29, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Greg, tried calling you on your mobile to wish you luck but can’t get thru. Is your battery flat out? Anyway, pls keep us posted on number of people in the line . Hang on tight, dude!
June 29, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Great dude, maybe they will give you a free one for all that waiting:)
June 29, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Polish newspaper is writing about you too:
http://gospodarka.gazeta.pl/gospodarka/1,68367,4276690.html
June 29, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Greg, tried calling you on your mobile to tell you what a fat ass loser you are but can’t get thru. Is your battery flat out?
June 29, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Oh and I recommend selling it on http://www.allegro.pl and you will make big news in Poland:) If you need help with that you have my address and I’ll help you become famous in Poland.
June 29, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Felicidades por tu iPhone, pero acaso ¿no tienes mas nada que hacer?, mejor lo hubieras comprado vía internet o la semana siguiente.
Disfruta tu estadia en la calle.
Saludos desde Barranquilla, Colombia.
June 29, 2007 at 4:24 pm
why wait on line? ads for the phone around the apple soho store for only $429 no line…
http://www.smart-crew.com/images/iphonedcevemarty.jpg
June 29, 2007 at 4:37 pm
F’kin Loon
June 29, 2007 at 4:47 pm
hey, i just tried to call your phone, your mailbox is full!! i think it’s totally cool that you’re having this whole experience, wish i could be up there! good luck, only 5 more hours!
June 29, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Why wait in line for a $500 phone and have the nerve to ask for donations??
Get real man.
June 29, 2007 at 4:49 pm
It’s not a crazed iPhone fan! It’s “the man on the street”. Check out Gregf Parkers claim to fame here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Packer
June 29, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Hey Greg,
I wish I were there. What a once-in-a-lifetime event! Glad to hear that you’re using your 15 minutes of fame for a great cause. Please continue to blog about your iPhone experience AFTER your purchase. I’m especially interested in pleasant surprises, disappointments, and general impressions.
Keep in touch!
Cheers,
Kit Mikazuki, Host
Nante Koto Online Dating Podcast
Washington, DC USA
June 29, 2007 at 5:27 pm
omg i listened to u on the radio yesterday on the big 550 lol u like chips.must be tired?
June 29, 2007 at 6:14 pm
What is it with you GP supporters? And for those of you who have financially contributed to this guy’s cause- there’s one thing I have to say to you… you have all been duped, hornswaggled, bamboozled… however you want to put it, you’ve been scammed.
Not only is there a media alert out on GP… that means that all media outlets are not supposed to include him in any reporting, but I have just found out that GP is not retired from the Town of Huntington, he was in fact either:
Let Go
Fired
or, Layed off.
If he was layed off or let go due to no availability of work, he just may be collecting unemployment benefits. Now, normally unemployment insurance is paid for by the employer, but in GP’s case, the employer was the Town of Huntington (Highway Dept., to be exact) so, who do you think winds up paying for this? That’s right… the already highly taxed community of the Town of Hunt.
If he was fired, well… my guess is that it was because he would rather be in the spotlight, which proves that he’s not only an incompetent narcissistic addle-pate, but that he couldn’t even hack a job that you basically need to be dead in order to leave.
Whatever the scenario, he is not retired. So, those of you who have contributed to his cause, you have indeed been scammed. The truth is that this guy doesn’t have the wherewithall to get a real job, and now, you are paying for his ploy for publicity.
June 29, 2007 at 6:44 pm
you’re funny thats great youre imaginative you really know how to rip on someone especially when my boyfriend is tom
June 29, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I sure hope you collect enough donations before the Apple doors open toninght or you are going to be shit out luck, first in line or not. Good luck Greg!
And since everyone seems to be whoring themselves lately, I thought I would whore my post on Greg Packer and the iPhone.
http://www.diamondkt.blogspot.com/2007/06/someone-please-stop-insanity.html
June 29, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Good luck in your endeavors!
June 29, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Dude,
I hope everything goes well with you.
http://www.mostofmymac.com
June 29, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Ihmetteleppa mies tata tekstia! – ok, joking, i’m joking. All the best to you from up here (Finland).
June 29, 2007 at 10:19 pm
… so by now you should already have your iPhone=)
how is it? let us know!
thx and all the best to you
jan (from Germany)
June 29, 2007 at 10:29 pm
How does it feel??
June 29, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Hey Greg, Im in Kansas and i prolly wont have access to this phone for 6mo. Boy do i need to move, were very slow on almost everything! Who cares if these ppl dont think you are cool, you are doing what you want, getting what you want. Word to your motha and more power to you!
June 29, 2007 at 11:36 pm
so did he get iphone
June 29, 2007 at 11:40 pm
hasn’t said… dammit, prolly playing with it, i know i would b
June 30, 2007 at 12:17 am
PLEASE EMAIL THE TOWN OF HUNTINGTON AND ASK WHY THEY ARE SUBSIDIZING THIS PEICE OF SHIT!
June 30, 2007 at 12:25 am
It’s Over!
I didn’t buy the phone, and I got my name inthe papers!
Alll you people who wished me well, thanks, but you are all fools!
All you hatas ar eright, but I still got what I wanted! Look for me next event!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Jokes on YOU, world!
Grego Packer
June 30, 2007 at 12:31 am
LAME YANKS
June 30, 2007 at 12:45 am
What did I tell you… he’s a useless piece of crap, a fraud, phoney, etc.
I also happen to work in the media, and there are media alerts out about not using him anymore as a source.
Also, for those of you that contributed financially to this narcissistic moron, let me inform you that you are entitled to your money back under the law. It’s called wire fraud, and is punishable by up to 5 years in jail (per count) and subject to huge financial penalties. So, if you so chose, you can take this schmuck to task on the fact that he’s defrauded you… but that’s your call.
June 30, 2007 at 12:48 am
first in line, no doubt, that’s pretty slick man… asking for donations may be a bit ignorant though, I can understand if people are giving you a hard time for that…
but hey greg, seriously, do me a favor, load up http://www.pisceandelusions.org on your iphone and let me know how it looks, will ya?
June 30, 2007 at 12:56 am
Stephen…
Read his blog.. he never bought an iphone.. it was all a hoax. In fact, just as he always does, he’s never dropped a dime for anything..just wants publicity. He never had any intentions of buying a phone… just wanted to be “first” in line for this…
And, he’s not pretty slick, he’s pretty sick!
June 30, 2007 at 1:01 am
ok, well perhaps someone else who got an iphone today can tell me how my site looks in it?
http://www.pisceandelusions.org
awesome, thanks in advance to everyone for their appreciations and considerations.
June 30, 2007 at 2:28 am
..and don’t forget my remrks for the Colon Cowboys complaining of homphobia…..
Hey Alex, check your colon for my wristwatch!!!!
June 30, 2007 at 2:52 am
hahaha Ron….. Ron Jeremy is that u?????? LMAO!!!!!!
June 30, 2007 at 2:53 am
hahaha Ron….. Ron Jeremy is that u?????? LMAO!!!!!! we have to talk Greg, I’ll see u at the BARN ON SUNDAY!!!!!!!!! u better fuckin be there!!!!iLOL!!!
June 30, 2007 at 3:32 am
Hey Greg…you sound like a lowlife. Don’t you have anything better to do with your life? You must work for Apple or something. You bought into the hype of this phone. I don’t care to be the first owner. Will wait for others to give a test trial and for Apple to work out the bugs that I am sure they will find during this live testing.
Please get a life and stop asking for donations. As always someone just trying to get their 15 mins of fame.
This is truly sad…
June 30, 2007 at 3:36 am
Oh you didn’t buy the phone…you are a bigger fool than I thought…and others are even bigger for doing a story out of this nonsense.
Please …me wait for a $500 phone…wait days…give me a break…this is such nonsense….
June 30, 2007 at 5:21 am
So you need donations from people but you are going to purchase a 600$ phone I can’t ever expect to buy? Why the hell aren’t these whack jobs donating money to me! Oh right, because I have pride.
June 30, 2007 at 5:38 am
You have the nerve of asking for donations when you are spending $500 and a week on the street not working (if you even have a job)….are you nuts? Oh sorry…you are nuts if you do that. BTW, how do you go to the bathroom?? Or you can keep it for a week?? What a pity!
June 30, 2007 at 5:41 am
Hi there !
How I envy you!
Because, Here Japan we have no plan to iPhone service will be released.
Japan remains closing the country with the cellular phone.
I wish the day iPhone can be used in Japan.
Enjoy!
June 30, 2007 at 5:52 am
Hi there !
How I envy you!
Because here Japan we have no plan to iPhone service will be released.
Japan still remains closing country about cellular phone.
I hope the day iPhones are servicable in Japan will be came.
I hope you’ll enjoy yhe iPhone instead of me.
June 30, 2007 at 6:06 am
Strange priorities.
June 30, 2007 at 6:08 am
Uhm, anyone can claim to be Greg Packer on this blog. Don’t be fooled by some random comment from someone claiming to be the original author of this blog. I’m not even him for goodness sake… *sigh* Crazy people.
June 30, 2007 at 6:09 am
…and it ain’t 6am…it’s friggin’ TWO (EST).
June 30, 2007 at 8:06 am
Greg Packer buyed iphone ? where is photos ?
where is final story ?
Hello from Moscow.
June 30, 2007 at 1:42 pm
whit all that time being a pro first guy, where did you get the money to buy an iphone???
June 30, 2007 at 1:44 pm
hey man!
i like what you did!
Follow your heart to do whatever you feel worth! good luck and enjoy
June 30, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Well, I was going to send some cash to the American Red Cross, but clearly a man imitating a homeless person in order to obtain a piece of self-image boosting lifestyle brand gadget is far more deserving of the money I obtain by actually going to work 5 days a week.
June 30, 2007 at 3:38 pm
This putz is the absolute height of douchebaggery!
June 30, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Found this online about what the wonderful Mr. Packer:
http://quinnmedia.blogspot.com/2007/06/finally-got-name-to-this-guy.html
June 30, 2007 at 4:11 pm
No one can impersonate him without being logged in as him. His messages/comments would have a different background colour.
June 30, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Why donate money to some stupid charity like Darfur Relief or Cancer Research when you can buy $600 dollers of penile compensation that just screams “look at me! I let an overpriced object define me!” Oh! look at this! You can also donate money to the douchebag who’s actually buying this crap!
Shouldn’t you be at work or school?
June 30, 2007 at 6:32 pm
*=|:^)
June 30, 2007 at 8:35 pm
I heard a report on NPR where the reporter had gotten ahold of an iPhone and was talking about all its nifty features. He even said that everyone wanted to be his friend once they found out he had one.
Then again, he probably didn’t have to go a few days without bathing to get it.
June 30, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Suuuuure, let me give you 100 of my dollars that I worked hard for to some douche who wants a phone. Want my girl too? How about my house? Want a shiny new car?
Get a fuc*ing job and stop obsessing over some phone.
June 30, 2007 at 10:06 pm
You have to be so mad asking random people for money which your not going to get, get a life lad! Alan Murray and his tutor group at sto scho
June 30, 2007 at 11:49 pm
You make me so ashamed to be from the United States.
July 1, 2007 at 12:00 am
hope your iphone gives you head cancer you stupid, greedy, ignorant f**k.
July 1, 2007 at 12:49 am
Sara,
don’t worry, you should have been ashamed to be an American *waaaay* before Greg came along. God, where to start? George Bush and the incredible disappearing WoMDs, Dr Phil, Paris, all the incredibly obese people you have chewing through the worlds resources at about a million times faster than everyone else, just about any part of your countries foreign policy etc etc etc. You have every right to be ashamed. Greg is the least of your embarassing problems.
July 1, 2007 at 1:17 am
Geez everything is George Bush…please get a life…the comments are about IPhone not politics.
This whole thing is stupid…hey lowlife get off my street ….hehehehehehe
and your stupid iphone.
July 1, 2007 at 4:22 am
With the money you could have made working, you wouldn’t need a donation button. Unless you’re a fat pig.
July 1, 2007 at 4:25 am
**dwiener**,
Our most disgraceful problem is that you are using up United States server space.
July 1, 2007 at 4:37 am
Thanks for the money asswipe!!!!!
July 1, 2007 at 6:25 am
http://rainingcatsandblogs1.blogspot.com/2007/06/idid-it.html
July 1, 2007 at 8:05 am
hey i´m a mexican and i think you´re a idiot american…Where do you work piece of shit???
July 1, 2007 at 11:25 am
hey grego..
cant quite get u.. but whatever makes u happy man..
congrads from israel!! ill tell u when that iphone gets here..
July 1, 2007 at 11:46 am
Greg did get 2 iPhones, one paid for by a German news organization, and the other paid for by Tetris Cube.
July 1, 2007 at 12:28 pm
ok lets make it simple – here is the bag, in my eyes really the best you can get for your iphone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkpH1NdIvIk
dont take to much attention to the nonsense, its about the bag, on sale starting from mid this week over swisshardbox.com and you just sent 35 dollars by paypal easy funny great…about greg…
i thought as you – what a fucker first, than…after a new york times article and cnbc article and so on and so on…i saw this professional side…and honestly i was thinking…wow…the original greg parcker iphone has to have a value of its own, its this fuckers first in line webside…someon on ebay really has to pay big for it…so i tried to reach parcker on his mobile number, to phone him up and make him a offer he cant avoid…
but i didnt reach him…
and still, here i thought, wow…parcker unimportant what my first opinion was about him…he is a clever man. i love stupid behaviour and clever organisations – so to me this is really really – one word – clever
July 1, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Well, he got them. NY Times photo below
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/06/29/business/20070630_IPHONE_SLIDESHOW_7.html
July 2, 2007 at 1:30 am
O! How it must be, to be devoid of personality. It must be some sort of significant state of being to force someone to believe that waiting for an iPhone is the experience of a lifetime. That wuss Cortez has NOTHING on you, or that misguided Oliver Cromwell. I bet Columbus is saying in his grave right now, “Fuck! This iPhone guy is by far the most couragous man to live. I squandered my life.”, and I’m sure Leif Erikson thinks the same.
You are so cool, I wish I could be just like you. If only so that my asperations could be so short sighted to believe that a crap peice of consumer electronics will satisfy all that I could ever need or want in this world.
I love America! THIS mans strife is what the Statue Of Liberty and the 1776 Independence war were ALL about; an addictive personality to crap Apple products. *le sigh*
July 2, 2007 at 3:25 am
Hahahaha, brilliant. Made it into the NY Times. Nice going. God I bet *that* must be pissing off a lot of the uptight posters on here. Man I sooooo hope ‘the facts’ (above) is right, and he got 2 free iphones. All those people slagging him off for not having a job or being a loser… priceless!
July 2, 2007 at 7:39 am
I really feel the urge to donate to your wonderful cause. Gee I sure wish I could sit outside and get paid for it. I bet the bums really envy you. Keep sitting dude, keep sitting.
July 2, 2007 at 9:14 am
Hey Gred,
read about you in German media. Hopping your iPhone works fine!
Your the man!
July 2, 2007 at 10:59 am
UR ONE sTUPID fUCK wHOES GOT nO lIFE lOSER gET A JOB
aND I’LL PRAY U DONT GET A fUCKING IPHONE
aNYWAYS IF U WANT JUST GO DOWN TO GRAY MARKET AND GET AN IPHONE REPLICA MADE IN HONGKONG WHICH IS AVAILABLE FROM A MONTH OR SO
July 2, 2007 at 11:19 am
[...] first post forgot to change the post slug as it still says hello world. Check it out at this link. http://firstinline.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/hello-world The permalink shows hello-world, where the title of the post is “I’m first in line for [...]
July 3, 2007 at 4:47 pm
I’ll give you $20 for your iphone when you get it.
July 4, 2007 at 3:50 pm
so you’re telling me you waited THAT long in one space to buy a phone that is NOT 3G,
is falsely advertised,
DOES NOT record VIDEO
and does not have a replaceable battery.
?
July 5, 2007 at 10:31 am
368745eb0946acbde9a755cc27528f60
368745eb0946acbde9a755cc27528f60
July 5, 2007 at 5:59 pm
I can’t believe someone would pay that much for a phone that is so far behind and has so many limitations.
July 5, 2007 at 9:48 pm
NO FUCKING LIFE GET A GIRL SCUMBAG
July 5, 2007 at 9:49 pm
OR ELSE ILL BUST ONE ON YOUR IPHONE
July 5, 2007 at 10:51 pm
packer rocks!!!!!!!!!!
July 5, 2007 at 11:21 pm
To all you uptight posters abusing Fudge Packer –
I LOVE to lift up the fat, smelly roll of his gut to try and find his miniscule dick to suck. I especially enjoy the smell (a mixture of sweat & shit with just the right smattering of piss) and the maggots. And swallowing his retarded seed.
July 6, 2007 at 2:38 am
hey greg , didnt you wrestle for huntington high school??…arent they the # 1 wrestling team in ny state history!!!!!!!!….you the man…..most others are jealous…dinner ,my house , friday night……
July 6, 2007 at 4:28 pm
i kept watching your pics on the www until u finally got your 2 iPhones ;]
daaamn youre a FINE WOOFIE BEAR! that sloppy face & bearchest [i was lucky enough to see you shirtless! WOOF!] should be here in Monterrey Mexico down my bed ;]
thanks for the eyecandy while u waited. SO – WOOFI !
huggs
July 6, 2007 at 4:40 pm
I WAS WONDERING WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE TOILET
July 6, 2007 at 7:15 pm
You are a tool!
July 6, 2007 at 9:13 pm
I’m guessing these no update to this blog/
July 7, 2007 at 12:16 am
Fatdumbass!
G E T A L I F E
July 7, 2007 at 6:28 am
YOU
ARE
THE
MOST
PATHETIC
PERSON
ALIVE
I hope you use the donations to go see a psychiatrist
July 7, 2007 at 5:31 pm
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July 8, 2007 at 6:14 am
Bet you’re kicking yourself now that they only sold 500,000 out of 3,000,000.
July 8, 2007 at 9:55 pm
I hope you shit your pants.
I have a cellular phone, it makes phone calls through a digitally encoded signal traveling through the air at high rates of speed, all the while, totally invisible!
Oh wait… phones have been doing that for… ever now?
July 9, 2007 at 2:39 am
you are a faggot with too much time on your hands u are an embarrassment to the human race. you make me lose faith in humanity.
July 9, 2007 at 2:42 am
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July 9, 2007 at 8:26 am
you!american people…all of you are greg parker…do you have any idea for kyoto?your life is simple,your idol is opprah winfrey,your problem is being unable to think,your are all fat,loser and greg parker…
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July 10, 2007 at 12:52 am
I am wondering if he sold the 2nd phone or not or if he even kept 1st one.
July 10, 2007 at 3:37 am
Either sold it of took it apart.
July 13, 2007 at 9:17 pm
YOURE SO COOL, FIRST IN LINE FOR A PRODUCT YOUR TOO RETARDED TO USE.
GREG PACKER LOVES COCK.
July 14, 2007 at 4:54 am
Go Greg You Rock my man don’t worry about those hatres out there they’re jealous! Keep Rockin
July 20, 2007 at 10:11 pm
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July 22, 2007 at 7:20 pm
u r a smartass… with obviously… NO LIFE AT ALL !!!
hahaha, poooooooooooooor of you…
July 27, 2007 at 5:54 pm
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August 7, 2007 at 2:12 am
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August 25, 2007 at 5:37 pm
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September 4, 2007 at 2:31 pm
This is for you Rob Engels from Amsterdam:
I am spanish and I live in your country for years now. I dont know why? But when I saw your negative comment on the 1st. guy of the i-phone, I thougth inmidiately… Who is this guy? Why is he trying to push down people? You know what? You and a lot other dutch guys are same, all time trying to push people down, when you are just a simple “farmers on a bike”. So please, respect people which live in your country.
September 17, 2007 at 11:16 am
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November 5, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Good luck and enjoy the iPhone when you get it. I hope to get one in August when my Sprint contract ends. For now, I’ll have to read about people’s iPhone experiences like you on the internet. Be safe, Keep warm and enjoy the your wait. I got the link of your blog through CNET. So I’m sure you’ll get more comments or phone calls. Later.
November 11, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Do not listen to all the bummers out there – especially to the mexican in the beginning of this blog – hope your exp. with the iPhone are good as mine!?
greets from europe
December 20, 2007 at 9:33 pm
I can’t believe someone would pay that much for a phone that is so far behind and has so many limitations.
January 3, 2008 at 9:43 pm
But what was the end of the story??
February 5, 2008 at 2:50 am
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February 10, 2008 at 3:01 am
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February 24, 2008 at 10:48 pm
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March 5, 2008 at 11:06 pm
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May 12, 2008 at 4:54 pm
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May 22, 2008 at 11:38 am
hey dude it’s Jessica ahahaha infamous number 3 do you have any video links of everyone online waiting for the iPhone???
May 22, 2008 at 11:39 am
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May 22, 2008 at 1:10 pm
O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
July 19, 2008 at 2:01 pm
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July 22, 2008 at 7:14 am
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August 26, 2008 at 8:42 pm
[...] – That’s Greg Packer in that photo up [...]
August 27, 2008 at 10:20 pm
[...] – That’s Greg Packer in that photo up [...]
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November 24, 2008 at 11:48 pm
[...] pensando bem, fila pode ser uma ótima forma de promoção pessoal. Greg Packer, o primeiro na fila do iPhone em Nova York, que o diga. Ele já é reconhecido na rua e lembrado [...]
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May 24, 2009 at 2:38 pm
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June 9, 2009 at 8:20 pm
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June 23, 2009 at 11:36 am
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October 29, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Это прям в точку!!! Иными словами и не скажешь!
December 27, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Статья очень понравилась! Этакий короткий микс полезных знаний. Хоть и “зажгли лампу среди белого дня”:)
January 19, 2010 at 5:11 pm
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