The .Plan

…this is kind of ridiculous:

Best Buy noted on the front page of its nationwide circular ads on Sunday that it would have a minimum of 20 60-gigabyte PS3 models and six 20-gigabyte models per store on Friday. How much each store would have in stock above that allotment was up for speculation.

Jose Mota, 26, of Hayward isn’t worried. He was the first in the line of 33 people who had already camped outside of the Best Buy store in Union City since Tuesday.

The store manager told them to keep the place clean and left the light on for them overnight, he said. The group — now an ad-hoc community — also is conducting a roll call every four hours to make sure everyone still has their places. People are taking turns to go get food or grab a shower.
–“Stores brace for hordes of gamers”, Associated Press, November 16, 2006