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Couple Arrested For Selling “Golden Tickets To Heaven”
 

Tito and Amanda Watts were arrested over the weekend for selling “golden tickets to heaven” to hundreds of people. The couple, who sold the tickets on the street for $99.99 per ticket, told buyers the tickets were made from solid gold and each ticket reserved the buyer a spot in heaven — simply present the ticket at the pearly gates and you’re in.

 

http://stuppid.com/arrested-selling-gold...ts-heaven/

Good idea, bad delivery.

The fact hundreds of people bought tickets from people who looked like that bothers me more than anything

fake

http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/goldentickets.asp

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Might be false but damn sure gave me a couple ideas..

Fake? Shocking!

Many readers shared the above-referenced story via social media, apparently believing that Tito and Amanda Watts were actually arrested for selling golden tickets to heaven. This story, however, was a work of fiction. 
 
A disclaimer on Stuppid.com advises that the site publishes the "stupidest, craziest stuff we can find," and the stuff they "find" is typically made up by them.
 
http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/gold...RAYRCPe.99

Quote:Fake? Shocking!

 

I mean at this point, should anything else be expected?

I've got silver tickets to heaven for sale.  PM me for details and if you are within the first 10 to respond, you get a 10% discount.

Didn't the Catholic Church used to sell tickets to heaven (indulgences)?   I believe that was one of the things that caused the Reformation. 

 

http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/theogl...-body.html

 

"One particularly well-known Catholic method of exploitation in the Middle Ages was the practice of selling indulgences, a monetary payment of penalty which, supposedly, absolved one of past sins and/or released one from purgatory after death."