Posted by tHe iNformer on 07:53:16 21/05/02:

Melbourne Herald Sun
21 May 2002

"Global Warning Turns To Meltdown"

Just how big is the big, big wrasslin' Global Warning show which hits Colonial in August ?

Bloody huge, according to the folk at Telstra and Ticketmaster. According to our information, the phone network bounced back 150,000 calls for tickets in the first hour.

That's right - 150,000 in 60 minutes.

Let's see, by our rough calculations, that's about 42 calls per second.......and they're just the calls that didn't get through.

All the primo seats, including the $750 diamond ringside tickets for the first 12 rows went pronto and the poor folk at Ticketmaster had to deal with many wrasslin' fans who missed out. They weren't happy.

Maybe next time they should just chuck all the tickets into a ring and let the fans fight amongst themeselves.

(tHe iNformer/ Melbourne Herald Sun)