I’m first in line for iPhone!
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
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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:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sgycukafqQ]
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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sgycukafqQ
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