Michael Jackson Online Lottery

4th July 2009 12:10 PM

Tuesday there will be a memorial service held for the recently departed Michael Jackson and organisers fear a rush of people arriving at the event. Having pleaded with devotees of the star to stay away and watch proceedings on the television they will be holding a Michael Jackson online lottery to decide who will receive the 17,500 tickets.

The global audience for the service, which will be broadcast live on television and the internet is expected to be in the hundreds of millions but just 17,500 tickets will be available for the actual event which will held on Tuesday at the Staples Center home of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team.

If there was any doubt that demand for these tickets in the Michael Jackson online lottery then the website has crashed today as fans clamour to get their hands on one. Many fans want to pay their respects after it was announced that the funeral will be a private affair and there will be no funeral procession.

In a blow to worldwide fans, only Americans can apply for the Michael Jackson online lottery at the Staples Center website. All applicants names will be put into a draw and the ticket holders will be randomly selected.

With the website to apply for tickets to the memorial service receiving over 500 million hits just last night alone,  you may have more chance winning one of our world lottery draws that getting one of these 17,500 tickets.

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