"Hannah Montana" to Axe Scalpers in Minnesota?

Posted Apr 10th 2008 10:31AM by TMZ Staff

Minnesota is proposing a "Hannah Montana" bill that would block scalpers from buying hordes of tickets online and then reselling them later at prices a tween girl and her weekly allowance could never afford.
Hannah Montana bill goes to Senate
The inspiration for the bill came after Miley Cyrus played a concert in the cold-weather state last year and scalpers left young fans empty-handed, crying into their Jonas Brothers pillows. Boo hoo.

Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Miley Cyrus

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1. Come to Argentina where the age of consent is 13

Posted at 2:44PM on Apr 10th 2008 by Pablo

2. This needs to be done EVERYWHERE...

Posted at 3:22PM on Apr 10th 2008 by too expensive

3. Seriously.. I live in MN and it was NUTS.. it was honestly like the biggest story on the news for like 3 weeks of Hannah Montana coming here and girls crying and oh goodnes.. scalpers made tens of THOUSANDS of dollars off of freaking concert tickets!

Posted at 5:24PM on Apr 10th 2008 by Jesse

4. good! we need to do that here now too.

Posted at 7:29PM on Apr 10th 2008 by diane

5. How are they going to stop people from buying hordes of tickets online in Minnesota? The internet has no boundaries.

Posted at 8:13PM on Apr 10th 2008 by Anon

6. Anything that gets the tickets in the hands of the real fans and not just the trust fund babies is all to the good.
Anon: Before the Internet, when you had to buy your tickets in person, they limited the number of tickets that one person could buy. They could try something like that on the Internet. Wouldn't stop them but it might drive up the price of business to knock at least some of the a$$h@les out of the market.

Go Sox

Posted at 8:57PM on Apr 10th 2008 by Baseball Junkie

7. I hope TMZ is not being rude with the "Boo hoo." at the end. This is a really big deal for families and for everyday people. we can't afford obscene prices for concerts, and the scalpers take it clean out of the realm of possibility every time. If TMZ is being a smart-alec, you need to get back in touch with who your readers are ... regular people that are sick of being taken for a ride.
Harvey - do you even read TMZ anymore? Between the snotty remarks in your articles, the crude humor and the smacks at us 'normal folk' your staff is really missing the boat.

Posted at 4:50AM on Apr 11th 2008 by Mama

8. WE LOVE YOUR MUSIC. WE WATCH YOUR SHOW ALL THE TIME. WE LIKE ALL THE CHARATERS ON YOUR SHOW.

Posted at 8:36AM on Apr 14th 2008 by DESTINY AND HOPE

9. This needs to be done so everyone can enjoy concerts for a ticket price. Cocerts are so expensive anyway.

Posted at 2:33PM on Apr 15th 2008 by lpres

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