on More Angry Twilight Fans at 13:27 11/12/2008

I was there and got a ticket. This is how it went down. I live in Orland Park. I was planning on following the rules. I had called Hot Topic, Mall Security, and the Orland Park Police Dept. to hear the same thing that everybody else was told. However, my friend drove past the mall at 9:15 and called to tell me that people were lining up. We were planning on going at 4:00 a.m., but with that news I drove over to the mall. By 9:30, I was the 176th person in line. Most of the people I talked to had similar experiences. Alot of people were from out of town. People had driven in and before they went to their hotels or friends they went to check out the mall. To their surprise there was a line. Nobody knew they were going to let people line up, it just happened. We were going to go at 4:00 am anyhow, but we just got lucky. It's not like we weren't following the rules and were trying to screw people, we were in the right place at the right time. However, I agree that HT should have followed the plan that they put out to the public. Everybody just chill on the idol worship thing. It's fun to participate in something like this, it's really not that big of a deal.