Baseball fan finds arresting way to score tickets
A female baseball fan has been charged after allegedly offering her body in exchange for sought-after tickets to the World Series.
Susan Finkelstein (pictured right) from Philadelphia, was arrested after meeting an undercover policeman in a bar with the intention, it is claimed, of exchanging sex for tickets to a game between her beloved Phillies and the New York Yankees.
It followed an advert placed on the internet site Craigslist which her lawyer admits may have included a couple of double entendres but fell way short of prostitution.
William Brennan described his client as "a nice lady overcome with Phillies fever". As to the ad he said: "If someone read into that posting a sexual connotation, that's on them."
Over a few beers she told the policeman that she needed two tickets, one for herself and one for her husband. Before prices were discussed she was arrested by several officers at a nearby table and charged.
Finkelstein (43) said: "I didn't do anything wrong, so I'm not embarrassed about my actions. I'm embarrassed about how I was arrested." But there was a silver lining. A radio station took pity on her and offered her a pair of tickets for a weekend game.
- Matt Williams in New York
Irish Independent
