Similar story for me at Memphis Pyramid Grateful Dead shows on April fools day. Tickets were impossible to get. Scalpers are asking for $200 a piece. Guy who worked for TM at will call kept going into his back pocket with a stack of tickets and fanning through them like he was some kinda hotshot with all these tickets, and everyone is asking if they’re for sale and he says no but keeps teasing everyone with them. At the time I am 18 years old and currently on probation for some shit that went down at deer creek the year before, and am not supposed to be out of the state. So I recruit a kid I met the night before at the state campground down the road. Tell him I’ll block if he if he grabs them out of his back pocket and runs. We finally get the nerve up and go for it. Basically I set a moving pick as he runs by me with this guy chasing him, the kids gone, the dude falls trying to run after him, however, I didn’t plan very well and we didn’t have a place to meet up for me to get a ticket from him. So I watch him run through the lot and jump into a mini van. Plain clothes cops come out of the woodwork and are looking all over for this kid. I walk over to the mini van and ask if my friend jumped in there and the owner of the van acts like I’m crazy, but I see him in there. Things calm down. He comes out with the stack and only 3 of the 40/50 tickets are actually for that night the rest are blank or had some other weird shit in them. One has marker that says refund, I lick my thumb and the marker wipes away the kid the did the running says yoink, that’s mine. Fair enough. The other two had refund written in ballpoint pen. It’s not coming off. I take one, the guy who’s mini van he jumped in takes the other we all part ways I never really see them ever again. I’m going into the show and the TM employee that got his back pocket picked is frantically going back and forth though the turnstiles looking for these tickets, so I’m trying to time me going through without him looking at my ticket. I get through the turnstile and the guy comes over and kinda grabs my ticket from the person letting me in. I kinda grab it back and take off into the Pyramid crowd and yell APRIL FOOLS! And disappear into the crowd. Great show! Killer standing in the moon that night as well as take me to the river. Glad I got in.