2007-06-30 10:15:51 - Polygamists in southern Utah, northern Arizona and Nevada camp out to be first in line to buy iPhones

LAS VEGAS, NV -- Several hundred polygamists from Utah camped out over night at AT&T stores in Las Vegas, Flagstaff, AZ, and St. George, UT in order to buy up as many iPhones as possible. Fights nearly broke out in Vegas as would be iPhone purchasers became irate as they realized nearly all iPhones were bought by Utah polygamists.
"We weren't

sure who this group of people dressed sorta like Mennonites were. There were not only adults, but dozens of teenage children. When other customers complained that there was a huge line of these people, preventing anyone else from buying iPhones, there wasn't much we could do about. They did line up first," said Ben Levy, customer at the Woodlands Village AT&T store in Flagstaff, Arizona.

"I didn't think polygamists were allowed to use technology, but I guess they're not like the Amish," said John Cantor, iPhone purchaser who was one of the lucky few to get an iPhone after the polygamists bought up most of the iPhones at the Henderson, Nevada AT&T store. In fact, when polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs was apprehended by the FBI last year, he had several Apple iPods in his possession. Apparently, the Utah polygamists are a fan of Apple products. It is unclear what these Utah polygamists plan to do with all of these iPhones as they refused to speak to any reporters about their new iPhones. Perhaps they were taking the moniker "Jesus Phone" a little too seriously.

About 10,000 fundamentalist Mormons live in the twin border cities of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah. The sect broke away from the Mormon Church in the 1890s after the church renounced plural marriage as a condition for Utah statehood. The Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints believe that men have the obligation, a religious duty, to take at least three wives.

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