Beware when buying sports tickets from unofficial sources
This AP story is out of Wisconsin, but there’s no reason to doubt that this happens everywhere. Admittedly it is less likely in Washington state, since our major teams don’t have big games. But still:
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau is warning football fans that big games such as this weekend’s Vikings-Packers game tend to invite ticket scams.
Already this season, one Packers fan paid $4,000 to an online seller for season tickets that never arrived. Last season, police found that counterfeit tickets for big games were sold near Lambeau Field.
The agency recommends the following precautions:
- Make sure tickets have a ‘Packers’ watermark on the back, perforated edges of the left and bottom, and ink that doesn’t smudge when moistened.
- If you buy tickets online, choose a seller with a long history of satisfied customers.
- Get the seller’s real name and contact information.
- Pay with credit card, check or Paypal, not cash.
October 29th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Damn the uninsured, to hell with those denied civil rights, let’s go to the game and spend our bucks to see overpaid and overblown steroided gladiatorial retards chase balls around a field or court.
October 30th, 2009 at 7:25 am
G’day comment kings. I much more enjoy the blather here than anywhere else in this paper, cyber, fibre, whatever. Ragging on the Herald is old and rather tired, and often true, but we’re all just beatin’ our heads against a big wall that ain’t listen’ much. The Congress ain’t listen’ to the people. They got their pockets lined with pharmaceuticals of all shades and the Pres, as nice as he is is just , and has always been, the errand boy of the corporations. That’s really what the greatest generation gave us after the WW 2. A huge, friggin’ inductrial war machine that had to not only keep goin’ strong, but teach other corporations how to be all controlloing to kep us ion line and hooked on the capitalist mode. We all know the rest. zIt sucks to a large degree, but we bend over and let ‘em have ther 3way with us every chance wee get to pull our knickers down. Hell in this country yer gettin’
it so many ways, you might as well not wear knickers. Well htat image is a little extreme, so lets just forego the tighty whities.
October 30th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Sorry for the unedited version. I am a lousy typist sometimes. But you get the gist mates. If yer out buyin’ sports tickets for god awful prices to see beef juggle balls you had better have your health care sewed up for your family, your taxes paid, money put away for the kids’ education, your credit cards paid off and your house owned outright. Otherwise your are just an escapist moron. Down with organized sports and religion.
October 30th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Off the Big T. So how come I haven’t seen anything about the fact that our local funny man, Mr. Dean “punman” Kahn won the Oct 12 New Yorker joke caption contest? Did I just miss that?
October 30th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Dean Kahn has a sense of humor?
Got a link fer that by any chance?
I’d like to see his definition of ‘funny’.
(oh, and yeh right, like the big T factors in with any of the dialogue here.)
October 30th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Oh wow, that’s hilarious.
November 1st, 2009 at 7:58 am
I have bing’d and googled my little digits to the bone searching for Dean’s winning caption in the New Yorker, but to no avail.
Will someone please post a link so I can give these rheumatic old knuckles of mine a rest?
November 1st, 2009 at 8:05 am
Is it the one that says ‘If it stays that way for four hours…’?
Whatever it was, Congratulations to Dean for winning.
The New Yorker is The pinnacle of American humor in the media.
November 1st, 2009 at 9:37 am
Yes that’s the one Camille. Just get a copy of the Oct 12 edition, back inside page. I thought the phrase has been twisted and overused as a punch line, but the people voted and…..now it’s history. I thought since Dean did a piece on Barney Goltz’s attempt a year or two ago (he was upstaged by another punster) that someone would note this one. Maybe he’s afraid of blowing his own horn since he and John are the only ones really still running the paper and the rest are cardboard cutouts aka The Lonely Guy. Taylor is the copy boy, janitor and general gofer–how apropos.
November 1st, 2009 at 9:47 am
On another note. Any bets on how big of a spike the swine flue takes here and elsewhere around the world and across the country as a result of trick or treating? People are still not taking this seriously, (less than 200 dead so far) much as they did not take it seriously during the initial outbreak of the flu pandemic that killed 18 million. We are neither smart as individual people nor as a species in general. Too bad the natural selection of a flu virus does not include a propensity to attack the conservative gene. I mean how apropos, it is a swine flue after all. You’d think with all the bat guano they eat and spew something would get in there and cause more than just the brain rot we see in the likes of Glenn Beck or Rush Limberger.
November 1st, 2009 at 11:17 am
http://contest.newyorker.com/CaptionContest.aspx?id=207
November 1st, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Thanks WTF.
I always enjoy reading your comments.
November 1st, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Does anyone know if John Stark is connected to the Skull & Bones society?
I realize that if he were, he couldn’t say so, and if he were to say that he isn’t, who’d believe him?
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:15 am
Skull and Bones? What’s that?
No, seriously–I am not a member of Skull and Bones. That’s a club for rich guys, big shots etc. I didn’t move in those circles.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:00 am
I’m curious, though, John, what was your experience like as a Yale student in regard to the S&B’s Society?
Were you aware of any controversy or opinions by other students or faculty about S&B?
Do you know of any attempt, successful or otherwise to gain entry into the S&B’s clubhouse? Is Geronamo’s(sp?) skull seriously inside? Is it creepy there?
I thought everyone at Yale are rich guys! ;-]
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I didn’t know anyone who was a member, but as you note, it was a secret society so maybe nobody told me. There were other secret societies–they are an old Yale tradition, at a university with no greek system…I remember hearing a little bit about it, but nobody really paid much attention to them. They had a building on or near campus–looked like a big mausoleum. no windows, no sign saying what it was. but everybody said it was skull and bones. there’s a picture on wikipedia.
In the years when I attended Yale, they were already making a sharp shift away from the old Yale, where a large number of students were sons of alumni (See Bush, George W.) and a Yale degree seemed to be almost a hereditary privilege. All my best buddies were from middle-class or blue collar backgrounds, but we knew people whose dads were Yale alums–these guys were running big New York banks etc.
As part of the big change, Yale decided, rather abruptly, to start admitting women students during my second year there…
The year before I arrived at Yale, students were still expected to wear coats and ties to meals…by the time I started as a freshman, that rule was dropped…Yale was changing fast in those days.
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Thanks for the link, ciz.
I didn’t see it until now.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Thanks for humoring me, John.
Coats and ties to meals!
Can you imagine that?!
Sweaters, jeans, and an occasional bathrobe is the dress code around here.
Don’t think I’d make much of a Yale girl; or a Harvard girl, for that matter.
I used to be intrigued by stories about Skull and Bones, the Bilderbergers, Illuminati, etc., and you’re the first person I’ve been acquainted with who’s ever been there, and could speak of it first hand.
Funny how GW Bush and John Kerry were both members of that society.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
The most impressive thing about Yale, compared to your standard state university, is its lavish appointments. Leather armchairs in the wood-paneled common room. Fireplaces in our dorm rooms. Really. (I think they have shut those down by now–insurance and all that.) I didn’t really appreciate the lavishness until I went to visit a high school buddy in his dorm at Purdue. Compared to Yale, Purdue was a state penitentiary.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Dorms?!
What happened to the condos?