St. Louis Cops used seized WS Ticks

by HerrProf on Mar 19, 2007 3:41 PM CDT

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/03/19/officers.tickets.ap/index.html?eref=si_mlb

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Some St. Louis police officers are being investigated internally over allegations that they used World Series tickets seized from scalpers, a police spokesman confirmed Monday.

I would think if the cubs were in the world series, cubs would be seizing legit tickets to see the games ;)

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that narky comment

should read cops would be seizing legit tickets to see the games

Any Argument, sufficiently argued in an intelligent manner, is correct.

by HerrProf on Mar 19, 2007 3:42 PM CDT reply actions

Scalpers usually have legit tickets

It's just illegal to sell them at the stadium for anything about face value.

by LT on Mar 19, 2007 4:06 PM CDT up reply actions

It is illegal..

..for them to sell them within so many feet of the ballpark period. We were trying to sell two tickets for less than face value a few years ago and were warned by police that it is illegal to sell tickets for any price, above face value or not.

Here's to a new year!!

by santo for prez on Mar 19, 2007 6:29 PM CDT up reply actions

There's a scalper who is a cop

He works in one of the shops between the Addison stop and the stadium. He's off duty (I hope, but he's definitely not in uniform) and when he sees someone selling tickets, even if for less than face, he whips out his badge and threatens arrest. Then he goes back to scalping.

by Phred on Mar 19, 2007 9:22 PM CDT up reply actions

Back in the early 90's

we had a couple of extra tickets that we wanted to sell at Wrigley. My friend took off to sell them, he was asking less than face. The cops got him in a car and scared him, then bought the tickets from him for something around what he was asking for them. We thought he was going to jail and he came back with cash....

by LT on Mar 19, 2007 9:43 PM CDT up reply actions