A guy who works in the video game section of a Manhattan Best Buy recently told me that people were coming into the store en mass, asking for Gears of War because they "liked the commercial".
Just that day, he said, dozens of people representing a community of fisher folk had come asking for fishing gear, road repairs and clean drinking water.
But so much of the time, as when he is asked for I♥NY gear, he has to disappoint them, prompting a follow-up question: "Well, where can I get it?" The typical New Yorker, according to a few newsstand customers, has somewhat more mundane needs.
Then a client calls, asking for some gear in a farm next door.
Customers asking for camping gear said they were going to walk across the continent in the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament.
The Afghan government is also asking for helicopters, special forces gear and intelligence assistance to fill urgent shortfalls.
Elliott asked for that one last gear, the one he had found at Churchill Downs and at Pimlico Race Course.
At 20 27 32 the captain asked for flaps and landing gear, which were immediately deployed by the first officer and resulted in the aircraft gaining 70 meters (200 ft) of altitude.
Caballero then asks "La Tuta" for cameras, saying they are expensive, and Díaz Pérez asks for a vehicle — for moving gear, he explained.
On Friday, the detectives switched gears and asked for a bench trial.
