"Missing Droid X Real-World Give-Away" Contest (1st Post:Updated)

[Chiclet]

Wait, if #17 is St. Louis then there is 2 in MO and none in New England?!? Not cool Verizon. Not cool.

 

[supersaki]

Alpena, Michigan has the world's largest cement plant.

Michigan Fast Facts and Trivia

Probably near Detroit...........

Well, the St.Louis one was built @ 2006, and the one in Alpena was from the early 1900s. Although upgraded over the years, I still don't think it would 'take the crown' so soon.

[Edit: Learning about cement production: St.Louis one produces ~4 million metric tons a year, the Alpena one ~2.7 (as of '04)]

 

[CodyS]

Now that we can assume #17 is St.Louis, what does the previous post about "[..] can take anything you throw at it. Just like the people where it landed" mean?

Well, it is the "Gateway to the West" which could refer to people landing there before moving westward.

Edit: It could also refer to the fact that original travel to what became St. Louis was typically by the Mississippi River.

 

[supersaki]

Wait, if #17 is St. Louis then there is 2 in MO and none in New England?!? Not cool Verizon. Not cool.

I have a feeling the twit(ter) has the #'s written on a bar napkin or he's trying to do most of this from memory.

 

[supersaki]

Well, it is the "Gateway to the West" which could refer to people landing there before moving westward.

Looked into it a little bit and it seems they get a lot of storms/flooding. Perhaps that's what it's referring to. [Edit:] Well, looking a little more it seems a lot of states get just as many 'major disasters' as MO does (according to FEMA declared Major Disasters)]

 

[jasonh]

Wait, if #17 is St. Louis then there is 2 in MO and none in New England?!? Not cool Verizon. Not cool.

Maybe that should tell you something about New England?

Does VZW's service suck there?

 

[crashnb114]

Maybe that should tell you something about New England?

Does VZW's service suck there?

Boston is one of the LTE trial areas, VZW service is generally very good here

 

[cast away]

Logically that clue does not point to Hawaii. I also think people are reading too much into it by assuming they should look in the keys. Outside of Hawaii, all of "south Florida" can be considered the southernmost "part" or "area" of the country. It didn't say most southern "point".

I think we've all come to the conclusion so far that @Droidlanding is not very "logical". So I wouldn't count on logic to follow the clues.

 

[Chiclet]

Maybe that should tell you something about New England?

Does VZW's service suck there?

I don't have a problem where I am, just outside Boston and up into New Hampshire.

 

[jasonh]

Boston is one of the LTE trial areas, VZW service is generally very good here

Well, the tweeter sounds like an idiot, so maybe that's why

 

[RetiredUSMC]

Again any two people can interpret any of these clues differently. None are direct enough to give a reason to begin searching. I still am not "sold" that they will be giving these away.

Time to get some work done........

 

[jasonh]

#11...

Droid X designate #11 is near the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Waiting for induction into the smart phone Hall of Fame.

Montana could still work...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=cowboy+hall+of+fame&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

 

[potterdood]

#11...

Droid X designate #11 is near the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Waiting for induction into the smart phone Hall of Fame.

Oklahoma has the national cowboy hof...

 

[supersaki]

#11...

Droid X designate #11 is near the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Waiting for induction into the smart phone Hall of Fame.

National Cowboy HoF is in OKC, OK.

I'm slow today

 

[johan_solo]

#11...

Droid X designate #11 is near the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Waiting for induction into the smart phone Hall of Fame.

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum -> Oklahoma City, OK

Though Texas, NoDak and Montana all have their own Cowboy Hall of Fame

 

[jasonh]

National Cowboy HoF is in OKC, OK.

I'm slow today

That's a museum, not HoF

edit: well, technically could be either still, unless they really meant big SKY country.

 

[NiceShotMan]

Back real quick to the Droid X "random shipping" stories. I've spoke with verizon a good bit, they do feel like if anyone was shipped a droid x it was most likely a director or supervisor for a call center.

Basically in preparation to support the 100's of thousands of devices that will soon be on the network @ release. These will be shipping to many call centers\directors now if not soon. I do admit, a director or call center supervisor claiming to have a random phone shipped to him sounds like a neat story for sure.

Don't let that story get you down, and I've had no luck with calling verizon and "tricking" them into letting me order\pre-order one. They have no order sku is basically what they've said.

If anyone has any luck let us know.

 

[japdaddy]

But, remember we assumed the "Keys" meant FL Keys. Assumption could be retracted now.

The word "key" actually comes from the Spanish word cayo, meaning "little island."

 

[supersaki]

That's a museum, not HoF

edit: well, technically could be either still, unless they really meant big SKY country.

I'm surprised they'd bring one to OK before some of the bigger east coast cities, but I'd be extremely surprised if it was near the Montana Cowboy HoF. But I've also never heard OK referred to as big country, either.

 

[NiceShotMan]

The word "key" actually comes from the Spanish word cayo, meaning "little island."

So, can we conclude this could mean the little islands (or around) Hawaii also?

What you think?

 

[jasonh]

So, can we conclude this could mean the little islands (or around) Hawaii also?

What you think?

Only if we can conclude that the tweeter is a genius, DaVinci Code-style.

 

[crazyzete]

#11 cannot be in Texas because a previous clue indicated it was in a land-locked state.

Search for "cowboy hall of fame" on google, first hit is the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. It says in the first line under that in the search "Formerly known as the Cowboy Hall of Frame".

I think #11 is in Oklahoma City. I'm betting it's not at the Cowboy Museum.

 

[vexhold]

I think #11 is in Oklahoma City. I'm betting it's not at the Cowboy Museum.

I think it's in Billings, Montana, but I will shoot something at you that supports Oklahoma City....


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Known to be in big country. Good size for a 4.3

 

[jmnelson419]

I think your a genius and gratefully welcome you to help us find these bad boys!

What are your thoughts on the all the processor\processing references possible related to?

I can almost Swear that -

HDMI & CPU References have a corrasponding meaning as well

I agree. I'm catching up so sorry if I am repeating...but HDMI is always lowercase in the clues...which is weird.

 

[johan_solo]

I think it's in Billings, Montana, but I will shoot something at you that supports Oklahoma City....


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Big Country could refer to Bryant Reeves the Basketball player who was born in Oklahoma City and had the nickname "Big Country"


HAHAHAHAHAHA

Big Country (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Big Country may refer to:

• Big Country, a rock band from Dunfermline, Scotland, popular in the early to mid 1980s
• The Big Country (novel), a 1958 novel by Donald Hamilton
  • The Big Country, a 1958 American western film adaptation of the novel, starring Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons and Carroll Baker
    • The Big Country (comics), comic book adaptation of the film
• "The Big Country", a song by Talking Heads from their 1978 album More Songs About Buildings and Food
• "Big Country" is also the name of a song by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
• Big Country, nickname of Bryant Reeves, an NBA basketball player from 1995 to 2001
• The greater metropolitan area of Abilene, Texas and surrounding counties.
• Roy 'Big Country' Nelson, mixed martial arts fighter
• Brad Eldred, and American baseball player, nicknamed 'Big Country'

Which of these refer to Oklahoma, Montana, North Dakota, and Texas?