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Atlanta — If you’re thinking about heading to Augusta, Ga., and trying to score a ticket to the Masters golf tournament, be warned: The rules for buying and selling tickets on the street are rigid, apparently not very well advertised — and strictly enforced by local law enforcement, according to the LA Times.
There’s a chance that you and your sporty knit polo and your Titleist visor might end up on the floor of the Richmond County jail.
Steve Crawford of the Augusta Chronicle reports 24 people were arrested just outside the Augusta National Golf Club in 2012. They were charged with disorderly conduct, having allegedly run afoul of a ticket-scalping ordinance.
Crawford encountered a woman named Pam Harwell, who was sitting on a sofa outside the lockup, waiting for her husband, Aubrey Harwell Jr., to be released.
Read more at LATmes.com
