Cleveland rocks :)

In Philly yes because everyone is out on the street killing eachother. he's done such a good "job" screwing this city that I think maybe it's better for us that he sits there for a damn phone.

I don't agree with Mayor Streets choice, but he's a geek and you have to respect a man with hobbies. He might not be the greatest mayor ever, but who really is? He told his Deputies to take the helm. Anyway, Fridays are always slow in the office.

"The iPhone is the flying car anyone raised on sci-fi has been waiting for."

It's not just a phone. It represents the collective hopes and dreams of a generation raised wanting tricorders.

It's not just a phone. It's like a marriage between technology and zen. It's a representation of all the potential that technology offers us to make our lives better. We aren't geeking out over the iphone because we're excited about some stupid handset. We're excited because it's the cutting edge of what technology can offer us to make our lives less frustrating and confused.

I have to agree. I'm assuming he's already got a cellphone so I'm sure he can do some of his daily duties from where he is. Not really a big deal at all.

I don't think sitting in a chair all day to buy a phone is benefiting Philly. Maybe it is though, I don't live there.

Well at the very least it's hard to award no-bid contracts sitting in line outside a store.

Also, the Feds hadn't bugged the store yet. He probably left after he saw a white van parked across the street.

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It's actually 200 as of last night but the point is the same.

Breaking news from Philly.com, "Street out, aide in, in quest for latest phone":

Street, an unabashed fan of new technology, said he had sent about 30 e-mails while waiting outside the store on 16th and Ranstead Streets.

"I think it's not a bad a thing for a person who needs that device [the iPhone} to sit and wait. I could have used influence to get one, but I don't work that way."

Just before his remarks, 22-year-old Larry West of Mount Airy confronted the mayor.

"How can you sit here with 200 murders in the city already?" West asked.

Street announced that "I'm doing my job."

He then left for City Hall, and it was not clear when he would return to the line. He assigned his spot to a male aide, who declined to be identified.

Eh, that was weak.

Maybe it's addition by subtraction...I don't know anything about this mayor.

I think sending a minion to buy it actually would've been better for the guy.

Who cares...

This is a big deal why?

More important things in life...Mayor Street will be able to dial 911 in style now.

KYW's Mike DeNardo reports that another person waiting in line early Friday morning was Philadelphia's own mayor.

Mayor Street got up in the wee hours, grabbed a patio chair, and began his encampment outside the AT&T store on 16th Street in center city at 3:30am:

(Street:) "This device is supposed to be very special. And so, I'm going to see it on the first day. The very first day, I'm going to have it."

(DeNardo:) "Mr. Mayor, with all due respect, this is kind of geeky."

(Street:) "Well yeah, I guess so. I mean, that's okay. We live in a kind of a geeky world. I mean, there used to be a time when the athletes were the ones everybody had so much respect for. I think the geek has come into his own nowadays."

The mayor says he would have someone hold his place in line, while he left to tend to a little city business. But otherwise, he planned to spend the day in his patio chair, waiting for his iPhone to go on sale at 6pm.

seriously, come on, just post it, it's ok if it's just a rough cut i'm totally fine with that (even though I am an editor myself)