I'm reviving this thread to post an item from today's Washington Post about people camping out at a Chick Fil A in Virginia in order to receive a year's worth of free food.

I'm not going to top the headline writer's "Free Bird!" so I appropriated it; or the reporter's description of these folks as "frequent fryers", so I stole that, too.

An excerpt:

Spend 24 hours at a Chick-fil-A opening and witness the teeny ironies of human economics: how people skip work and burn gasoline traveling hundreds of miles for coupons, how a company thrives in a marketplace meltdown by treating its customers like royalty and promoting a genius PR stunt, how the First 100 escape the world by forming a barricade of tents around a beacon of your-way-right-away capitalism.