And for the last 10 years, when Packer has learned of a chance to meet a celebrity in the New York area, he has made it his business to be there. Consequences be damned, he takes vacation and personal days or calls in sick from his job filling potholes and mowing lawns for the Huntington highway department for the chance to rub elbows with the likes of Gene Simmons and Jimmy Carter.Sounds like a typical government-funded RAT to me!