iPhone4 Launch Day Humor and Horrors...

This entry takes the cake, I couldn't decide to laugh or cry while reading it myself...

ghhhh horrible day for me. I had been tracking my phone since it was shipped like a hawk. Saw that it had been delivered and signed for, so I called up the ATT store and they said none had been delivered.

So I did what any girl does when her 360 dollar purchase is missing, I freaked. I called fed ex, I printed the delivery confirmation letter, kept calling and harassing ATT. Finally found out the person who signed doesn’t even work at Att, there is NO ONE there by that name.

So I freak out more. Like hyperventilate gunna throw up kinda freaking out. I called fed ex back and they say they will get a description from the driver. Got said description, called ATT back, dude definitely doesn’t work there. So now other customers are calling saying where the hell is my phone, 40+ phones are missing, so now ATT is freaking out.

Im still in contact with ATT and FED EX, Fed EX calls and says they grilled the driver, and he is adamant about dropping it off at the correct address at the cell phone store. So they grill him more, he describes his surrounding when he dropped it off, and turns out he dropped it off at….. wait for it…. FLIPPING VERIZON !!!!!!!!

And the douche that worked at VERIZON signed for over 40 iPhones AND when the manager at ATT went over to pick them up the Verizon dude had opened 3 peoples boxes, and when asked ” dude why the hell didn’t you call us?” His answer was, ” I didn’t have Att’s number.”

WTF, several people should lose their jobs, but i am relieved to say that after a few hours of sheer madness I do have my phone.

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Apple Store in Temecula, CA. Pre-ordered for delivery from Apple.com on the 15th; got cancelled. Tried everywhere, Apple was the only option. 3:30 AM arrival time, ~ 110 in line for no pre-order. They let us use the store bathroom until 6 AM. At 6:30, started bringing all-you-can-drink Kirkland Signature water (continued for the remainder of the day).

7:30, about 40 dozen donuts. 8:30, gave us free, high-quality umbrellas to battle the sun. 9:45, platters of Togo’s sandwiches. At 12:30, when I was about 20 from the front (yes, it moved THAT SLOW) they told us after explicitly stating earlier in the day that there would be enough phones for everyone in line (350-400, not including pre-orders), that there wouldn’t be enough for most of us. Riot nearly ensued.

Luckily, the manager came out and corrected that and I snagged 2 32GB at 1:45 PM. Almost 11.5 hours in line, and while I regret Apple’s ineptitude regarding the pre-order process, I don’t regret getting it one bit. Here’s to my line-mates!

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I drove an hour and a half to my nearest apple store. I got there at 11:00 pm on Wednesday about 10mins in line it rained like crazy of course had no umbrella I was 34th in line at this time. After the rain died down most people had left so I became third in line. All was great until around 2:00am when security came they told us because of the location we have to leave the premises at 2:30am or police will be called. Sure enough at 2:30am the cops come and escorted us of the grounds and we were told to come back at 5:00am to start lining up. So I went to the nearest gas station freed my blatter and waited til 3:45am. I drove back by the apple store and saw that the cops left so there was about five people in line so I rushed over and got me a spot. Well the cops were called back so again I had to leave, but this time I went to the back of the parking lot turned off the lights and parked. So after the cops left again people came back lining up. This time it is around 4:20am. I was around 8th inline until for some reason the security moved the line from the front of the store to the side. About 20 people were in front me most of which just showed at and had been there for maybe 10 minutes at the most. Well the line stayed as is up until day broke and it was around 6:00am. This is when Apple employees started to show up as they gave us snacks and water. Well although thing seemed to be looking better the clouds formed and rained even more. This time Apple gave us umbrella, how nice of them. Once the rain stopped again employees began asking us the model of iPhone we want checking inventory on there nefty app or iPod touch. Oh I can smell my iPhone now, yet I was again wrong. Once the door open the employees started to pull in customers. The was two lines, reserves and purchases, I was in purchases. Well the ratio given straight from Apple corp. was 50:1. So as I watch the line for reserves get smaller our line became larger because of people just joining our line. Yes joining our line just walking up and staying. Neither apple nor security did anything. Until we started to rebel and cops had to be called. So the cops came and kicked like five or 6 people out for cutting. It was awesome but we still had to wait for apple until the employees notice we were angry tired and what every else you would be after waiting in line for almost 10 hours. So the ratio changed to about 10:3. Well around 9:45am we started chanted and booing depending who came out with their phone which was really fun for those guys who were cutting. They got booed really bad. After all of this I was finally called into the store meet with praise of employees clapping and cheer such a great feeling. I got my 32gb iPhone 4 and the overprice Black Bumper case. Activated my phone in less than 30 seconds. As I walked out the store the cheers were again present. A perfect way to capped off possible the most agonizing 10 hours I ever faced. So this is my story on how “I survived iPhone released day!’

Proof that anyone can be a politician.

How long till the US gets a leg up in Arizona?

Anyone else think this is not something that we should ever have to be dealing with? If it's that easy for drug smugglers and traffickers to get in what about the terrorists?




The U.S. Gov: giving parts of Arizona back to Mexico

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has closed large portion of Southern Arizona in and around the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge and all along the southern side of I-8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend. This is 80 miles north of the Mexican border and its now off limits to American citizens!!

A reliable informant known to us as “Duck Hunter” has told the U.S. Border Fire Report that the Mexican Drug cartels now control large areas of Southern Arizona. According to the Pinal County Sheriff large areas in Southern Arizona are very dangerous and is off limits to U.S. citizens. Where is Congress and DHS in this new Mexican-American war that we seem to be losing?

According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife this area is about 3500 acres in size. Our concern for public safety is paramount. The situation in this zone has reached a point where continued public use of the area is not prudent. The Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge has been adversely affected by border-related activities. The international border with Mexico has also become increasingly violent.

Assaults on law enforcement officers, U.S. Citizens and violence against migrants have escalated in recent times. Violence on the Refuge associated with smugglers and border bandits has been well documented.

Many of these activities are concentrated at the border and inland for 80 miles.

The concentration of illegal activity, surveillance and law enforcement interdictions make these zones dangerous. Closure is in effect until further notice according to Mitch Ellis Buenos Aires NWR Refuge Manager.

Concerned Citizens group say “there are now signs posted here in AZ just off I-8. No more camping south of I-8.
So, our government has surrendered and ceded part of Arizona to the smugglers and cartels of Mexico?

What do you think would happen if signs like this were to be found back East? But this is just backwater, flyover AZ so it doesn’t count to the media and Congress, I guess. Folks, this nation better wake up and pay attention. This is only the beginning of what you can expect in YOUR backyards. This is not an exaggeration: I stopped hiking some of my favorite mountains and canyons because of the smuggling dangers. Who wants to carry more guns and ammo than water in order to survive in the Arizona desert? That is what it has become. Maybe your state is next?

Duck Hunter said “How much land are we going to allow the Drug and Smuggling trade to take from the States.”

Here is another area that is “Officially” CLOSED This area is completely closed and has been for almost 4 yrs due to the violence of border issues.

For real?????

Justifiable entry or not?

A report of a dog crying in distress can constitute an emergency that justifies police entering a home without a warrant, a state appeals court ruled Thursday in upholding a Los Angeles County man's conviction for animal cruelty.

In appealing Keith Chung's conviction and 16-month prison sentence, his lawyer argued that officers may disregard the normal requirement that they obtain a search warrant only if a human life is at stake.

But the Second District Court of Appeal said that although pets are considered personal property, protecting them is a legitimate government concern.

Police can conduct a search without a judge's approval "when an officer reasonably believes immediate warrantless entry into a residence is required to aid a live animal in distress," Presiding Justice Joan Dempsey Klein said in the 3-0 ruling.

The court said a woman in Marina del Rey called police early one morning in July 2007 and said she and her husband had been awakened by the sound of a dog howling in apparent pain for about 15 minutes in Chung's condominium upstairs. She said she heard similar noises several times a week.

Police went to see Chung, who told them he didn't own any dogs. When an officer heard what sounded like a dog whimpering from inside, he handcuffed Chung and entered the condominium. There he found an injured dog lying on a towel in the patio and the body of another dog in the freezer, the court said.

After unsuccessfully challenging the search, Chung pleaded no contest to animal cruelty. In his appeal, his lawyer argued that police should have sought a warrant before entering because there were innocent explanations for the sounds reported by the neighbor, who was embroiled in another dispute with Chung over water damage to her unit.

Chung's lawyer, William Heyman, said he would appeal the ruling.

The ruling in People vs. Chung, B212210, can be read at links.sfgate.com/ZJUC.