Via Consumerist, an alleged eye-witness report of staff members of Mayor Adrian Fenty cutting in line to buy iPhones on Friday. And here we thought Council chairman Vincent Gray would win the most entitled public servant of the week award.

…I work in downtown DC and went to the AT&T store on 17th and Pennsylvania around 4:45 to get in line. About 35 people were in front of me, everyone was nice, people from AT&T were giving out water and all was well. They and another store I visited during lunch wouldn’t or couldn’t tell us how many they had, so the line kept growing until it was about 70 or so. Six o’clock finally comes and they let some people in, and it’s really slow going–like one person every ten minutes, even though there are a bunch of employees and registers in there. We later found out that AT&T’s system crashed.

So we’re all waiting outside and some of the people around me notice a double parked car with a driver and a few dudes outside all on Blackberries talking and looking into the store. A little while later, a guy comes out with three bags and gives them to the driver. AT&T was only allowed to sell one iPhone per customer. Then the same guy disappears back into the store, into the back room. The manager comes out to update people and someone asks him what just happened and we find out that the phones are for D.C.’s mayor, Adrian Fenty. The guy comes out again and quickly gets into an SUV parked in front of the store. By this point, more than a few people are asking questions, and after a guy behind me yells out “fix the schools first,” the guy gives him the finger and sneers, “there’s only 15 left.”

Phone messages left for Mayor Fenty’s communications office were not immediately returned, but we’ll update if we can get confirmation one way or the other about whether the Mayor currently has an iPhone, and/or employs people who act like jerks out in public.

UPDATE: The Examiner’s Michael Neibauer reports that, after being embarrassed by the reports popping up on the internet, Mayor Fenty has ordered the staff members involved in this incident to return their iPhones.

“The city’s technology office has been taking a look at ways that wireless technology can make the District government more efficient,” the Fenty administration said in a statement Sunday. “The iPhone is one of the technologies [the city government] would like to examine, and the office purchased three devices this week for testing purposes.

Mayor Fenty had no knowledge of this purchase and was not a candidate for any of the test devices. In an effort to avoid even the appearance of impropriety and out of an abundance of caution, the devices have been returned.”

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