YES! I WON!

It’s the end of the world as we know it.

Today the biggest lotto news may not entitle someone winning 1.2 million from the state jackpot. No, the biggest jackpot on this Monday, July 6, is what 8,000 or so lucky fans will win tickets to Michael Jackson’s funeral.

A lotto system for a funeral?

Please tell me this is one big hoax. Look it’s bad enough that a funeral is being held at a professional sports arena much less the fact that they’re actually treating it like a sports event.

“The Staples Center jackpot” was held over the weekend and winners are contacted today. If you’re not one of the lucky few, tickets will likely become impossible to get according to one report.

The memorial producer claims the actual memorial service will remain free of “bells and whistles.”

“Free of bells and whistles” despite its location and a lottery system to hand out tickets for the event? Yeah I really believe that.

This whole thing is turning into a circus despite claims that the service will be low-key and “not produced like a TV show.” Aside from the 20,000 or so who will get inside the arena, thousands more are expected to watch the funeral simulcast at the nearby Nokia Theater.

It’s one thing to pay respect to the pop king, but it’s another to make a mockery out of his funeral. Lotto tickets just to get inside the door? Come on now.

No word yet on whether or not MJ’s casket will be at the service. Reports say that the family is still working out whether that could be possible, and that there had been some family disputes on how to bring Jackson there, and whether it would be an open casket.