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Michael Jackson Funeral Tickets: 17,500 Free on StaplesCenter.com
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by Jordan Yerman | July 3, 2009 at 06:19 am
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Michael Jackson funeral tickets will be available to the public. 17,500 free tickets for the funeral, to be held at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 7, will be released today, according to a spokesman for the Jackson family. The service will begin at 10am local time. 17,500 Tickets will be available at staplescenter.com, 6,500 for viewing at the nearby Nokia Center and 11,000 for Staples Center itself. Tickets will be available for pickup on Monday morning. Registration is now available for non-US residents as well, and is open from 10am July 3 to 6pm on July 4.
Initially, only U.S.residents qualified for the ticket drawing to score seats for Tuesday's Staples Center memorial. But now the folks putting it together have decided to open up registration to all earthly beings, saying, "Additional legal terms have been incorporated into the conditions of entry to allow non-U.S. residents the opportunity to register for the random ticket drawing."
Once registration closes, attendees will be chosen at random from those who were able to register. Those fans will be notified via email with further information, including where to pick up their tickets and wristbands.
Details on how to get tickets were made public via a press conference at Staples Center, at 10am Pacific Time today. Jan Perry from the Los Angeles City Council is outlining the city's role in managing public safety during the massive event that will be the Michael Jackson funeral, which will draw people from all over the world, and is urging people to watch from home.
There will be no funeral procession to Staples Center, and video feeds will be made available to news outlets for free. The LAPD is stressing that those without wristbands will not be allowed near the Staples Center area: the borders will be Flowers Street, Olympic Blvd, Pico Blvd, and Blaine St.
Dennis Zine, an LA city council representative, said: "If you can imagine 100,000 people show up and you have 20,000 capacity, there is not sufficient room. Now you have a crowd-control problem."
On Sunday, July 5, the Jackson family will hold a private funeral.
Although only 11,000 tickets will be available - and there will be a huge rush on them - it's expected many thousands of fans will gather outside the center and on the streets leading to the arena in a massive outpouring of sorrow.
The venue is fitting: Jackson rehearsed at the arena two days before he died.
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at 08:40 on July 3rd, 2009
the only FREAKSHOW is the United States "Government" and ppl like George Bush.
People who talk badly about someone who is DEAD and someone who never did anything mean to anyone in their life. you people make me sick.
But you can NEVER destroy michael no matter how much you try. he has millions and millions of fans that will forever love him and his music that he gave the world.
your hatred and negativity will never override our love for him and you will see this on tues. in LA and you are seeing it around the world since he died.
no person will ever be as big as michael. no entertainer will ever give us more than he did. so fuck you and fuck off
at 07:27 on July 3rd, 2009
THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN!!
at 08:16 on July 3rd, 2009
Let the man rest in peace!
at 07:13 on July 3rd, 2009
This funeral has to be one of the biggest public events held in the LA area.
at 07:44 on July 3rd, 2009
This will not be hardly enough!