Crazy Things People Will Do to Get Hannah Montana Tickets
Allegedly mature adults are going bonkers and doing outrageous things to get the wildly popular Hannah Montana tickets, like holding onto a statue for six days or paying $13,000.
By Anastacia Mott Austin
Call me crazy, but I just don’t understand the whole Hannah Montana frenzy. Granted, I£m one of those moms who punishes her children daily by not allowing them to watch “bad” TV (meaning, anything not on PBS).
Maybe I don’t get it because I don’t give my kids sugar, either. Because the parents in the news these days are behaving as though they just consumed large quantities of Red Dye #5 and high fructose corn syrup, frothing at the mouth and willing to do anything (and I mean anything) to get those prized tickets for their little angels.
Regular tickets for the insanely popular Hannah Montana “Best of Both Worlds” show sold out within minutes of going on sale. Almost immediately, ticket brokers and scalpers began selling them online at hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars over the face value. And people were still snatching them up.
Disappointed members of some Hannah Montana fan clubs who had been promised choice tickets to shows as a membership perk and then couldn’t get them sued the clubs and the companies Interactive Media and Smiley Miley. They’re asking for triple damages and legal fees for all members. In the meantime, parents are going all out to find other ways of getting those golden tickets.
Like the woman’who wanted to remain anonymous’who paid radio station WFBQ in Indianapolis $13,000 for four tickets to the December 9th Hannah Montana concert in Indianapolis. Granted, the sale was part of an auction hosted by the Bob and Tom Show on WFBQ benefiting the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital, and the money will go to a good cause.
“That’s great. Everybody’s all happy about it,” said radio host Tom Griswold to the press. “We’re happy to step away from the rock “n roll for a couple of minutes to help out the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital.”
And granted, the winning package also includes four backstage passes to meet the actual, live 14-year-old Miley Cyrus, the real kid behind the Hannah Montana frenzy.
But still, $13,000? No wonder the stay-at-home mom of two wants to remain anonymous.
That’s not the case for 35-year-old Jody Powell, who hung on to a statue of Hannah Montana for six days in a contest to win concert tickets for his future stepdaughter at the Tampa, Florida venue near their home. Also sponsored by a radio station, Tampa’s WFLZ-FM, the contest began on November 8th with 20 contestants whose job it was to be the last one holding on to the statue.
Six days later it was down to two, and when contestant Lara Padgett let go for a moment when she was distracted by the sun, Powell became the winner of the four tickets. “The sun really got to me today,” said Padgett to reporters, “and I took my hand off the fur-lined boot.”
As for Powell, he said he had been told by his fiancee’s daughter that he’d better not come home without the tickets. Her name? No, not Veruca, it’s Hannah.
Said Powell to reporters “I£m ecstatic, it’s like a dream come true.”
It’s a dream my kids aren’t going to know about, if I can help it. They don’t know who Hannah Montana is, and I aim to keep it that way.
For one thing, I can’t afford it.
