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[themill]

I was at the first Madison location... we scouted out several pay phones in the general vicinity, but only one was located outdoors. There was no ring at the time, and prior testing indicated that the phone WOULD ring if someone called it. I am going back out to the second madison location in about 30 minutes... there are two phones there but they're pretty close to each other.

~theMill

[Addict]

[Griddrunner]

I was at site 35.074196 -089.919320 (Memphis Tennessee).

I met up with some people from XBOXCONNECT and XGAMEFUSION.COM (both are putting up pictures at their sites)
at around 9:30am (our time to be there was 9:51am). There was no phone in our area (but we stayed anyway and hoped........to no avail) so nothing happened at out coordinates .

It was nice to meet others there though, so even if your area is a dud, like ours, you may meet some gamers like yourself and that will make it worth it anyway.

[pixel]

well the santa monica ca one was a bust. the phone rang to a crowd of about 15, but some huge guy from gold's gym burst in, grabbed the phone, looked befuddled for about 3 minutes, then hoplessly said "they're asking trivia?!" needless to say, we went cold.



cool none the less.

[Archer]

I blew it

[ColdForged]

Well, I missed the 08:47PDT call to Raleigh, NC by about 8 minutes. Surprisingly the pay phone near that corner was still ringing when I got to it, and the brief recording I heard sounded in-game but relatively unintelligible. It ended roughly 5 seconds after I picked up the phone and then disconnected. I plan to hit it tomorrow, hopefully on time.

Whoever said they were planning to hit the 13:23PDT call in Raleigh, I stopped off at the location after this attempt. If you haven't been there, the coordinates are directly in front of the North Carolina Museum of History. The only pay phone that I could locate in that vicinity was inside the museum, to the left of the information desk in the alcove for the bathrooms. I planned to go and still do, but it depends on work. Good luck.

[Anxst]

08:51 PDT 43.075049 -089.398353

[sfsdfd]

Cleveland coordinate #2: failed

[TheLeech]

9:29 a.m. NE Kansas City location. Parasites group.

Seven of us met up at the GPS location which ended being an empty lot. We found three pay phones in the vicinity. We covered each phone and left two people at the field in case someone showed up.

The first phone was in an exposition center southeast of the location. Three of our group went there. The second and third phones were in the lobbies of two hotels north of the GPS coords.

I went to the northernmost hotel, made sure the phone could receive incoming calls and waited. At approximately 9:24 a.m. Pacific, a man went over to the pay phone and made a local call. He hung up at approximately 9:28 or 9:29 a.m. The phone rang about 5 seconds after he hung up.

The voice on line was clearly a recording, but it was hard to understand. Lots of ambient noise on the recording. As per the other calls it asked for its name. I answered "Operator." It went on and played the .wav file but it was garbled and hard to understand. At the end of the .wav file the voice explained something about damaged hardware and asked if I wanted to "Repeat or continue." I answered "continue" and received the "I love bees" crap.

I reported what I had done to the other guys. I was quite sure I screwed it up but one of the guys with Web access on his phone said our axon was hot. The other group that went to the southern phone also confirmed our axon was hot with someone over the phone.

I'm not sure the guy who made the phone call right before the ILB call had anything to do with ILB, but I thought I should include it anyways.

Andrew/TheLeech

[Crowza]

There were no payphones in the immediate vicinity of the Spencer, WV location (38.799738 -081.348157). Since it was in the middle of nowhere, early this morning (before the details hit the net) we had no idea what to expect (we weren't looking for a payphone specifically). If we did get it, we wouldn't had a clue as to what to say.

Anyway, it was a wasted trip for me.

[astrovanman]

Dallas: Mesquite and Garland

[Admetus]

Philly failure

[themill]

Second Report From Madison

[Drakenul]

Like drauh, I was at the Ann Arbor, MI location. However, I have an audio of the way we (the HUGE group that gathered) messed it up. BTW, Lemures is the one who was on the phone, and given the responsibility of giving the password, but the area was a noisy intersection, so that explains the foul up.

Anyway, here's the location of the file: http://www.drakenul.com/beefail.wav

[Klatuu]

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