A couple ,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 ticketswere 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.
A Jacksonville police spokesman said
“People can sell tickets to heaven,”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. That’s where the Watts crossed the line into doing somethingillegal.”Tito Watts said in his police statement: