Tito and Amanda Watts, a Florida couple were recently arrested for selling several hundred “golden tickets to Heaven” for Sh 10,000 each.
The duo, who sold their divine product on the street, told buyers that the tickets were made of solid gold and guaranteed the purchaser a spot in heaven.
Yep. Simply present the golden ticket at the pearly gates and you’re good to go.
How you would take the said ticket with you is not clear but this wasn’t how Tito and Amanda Watts crossed the line from ridiculousness into illegality.
Misrepresent
“People can sell tickets to heaven.” a Jacksonville police spokesman said.
“But the Watts’ misrepresented their product. The tickets were just wood spray painted gold with ‘Ticket To Heaven – Admit One’ written in marker.”
“You can’t sell something as gold when it’s not,” the spokesman added, and “that’s where the Watts crossed the line into doing something illegal.”
Defiant
You learn something every day. Police said that upon arresting the Florida duo, they also confiscated Sh 1,000,000 in cash, five crack pipes and a baby alligator.
Tito Watts, who is clearly 100 percent of sound mind, said in a statement:
“I don’t care what the police say. The tickets are solid gold.”
Source and credit: Pulselive.co.ke
*NOTE: This platform tried to probe this story and found that a website: stuppid.com had published something similar since March 31, 2015. Another website: voice-online.co.uk also published similar story with a slight difference on April 10, 2015.
Going by this note, the above story might have been an April fool after all.