The WSJ's Matthew Rose reports that Greg Packer, a 39-year-old highway maintenance worker from Long Island has made a second career of getting quoted in newspapers and filmed on television news reports as the proverbial "man on the street." He intentionally positions himself close to the press at public events and jumps to the front of the line. (And I thought I was a shameless media whore!) This guy has gotten better media placement than half the flacks in New York. Maybe he's in the wrong industry.
Long Island man sows his platitudes widely [WSJ]