 A
female baseball fan has been charged after allegedly offering her body in
exchange for sought-after tickets to the World Series.
Susan Finkelstein, 43, from Philadelphia, was arrested after meeting
an undercover policeman in a suburban bar with the intention, it is
claimed, of exchanging sex for admission to a finals game between her
beloved Phillies and the New York Yankees.
It follows an advert placed on 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 advert he said:
If someone read into that posting a sexual connotation, that's on them.
There's no overt sexual reference.
The online ad led to a rendezvous between Finkelstein and an
undercover police officer snitch. Over a few beers she told the man that
she needed two tickets, one for herself and one for her husband. Before
prices were discussed she was arrested by several officers on a nearby
table and subsequently charged with the misdemeanour charge of promoting
prostitution.
Finkelstein has protested that this was not what she intended. I
was hoping to get cheap tickets, she told local station WPVI-TV,
adding: Maybe meet someone, and talk, and bat my eyelashes and maybe
get some tickets.
But there was a silver lining for the Phillies fan. A local radio
station and car dealer took pity on her plight, offering a pair of
tickets for a weekend game in the process.
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Woman accused of offering sex for World Series baseball tickets
has had charges dropped after a two years of persecution.
