Concert Tickets: $25...Suicide on Stage? Priceless

[MeezDiscreet]

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HELL ON EARTH leader Billy Tourtelot said on the band’s Web site Friday that the concert and suicide will take place in an undisclosed location in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The band intends to broadcast the event on its Web page and asks its fans to visit the site for the performance at 7:30 p.m. EDT.

Tourtelot’s announcement last month that he would host the suicide of a terminally ill fan led the city to ban the event with an ordinance and prompted a judge to issue an injunction against it.
Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has said that anyone who assists in a suicide could be charged with a felony and face up to 15 years in prison.
Kevin Hayslett, an attorney for Tourtelot, said the band leader wanted to go ahead with the show despite the lawyer’s advice that he not do so. Hayslett said he did not know the concert’s location.
St. Petersburg city officials could not be reached late Friday. A police dispatcher said no one would be available to comment until Saturday.
The person threatening suicide has said he is dying and wants to promote his right-to-die views. Tourtelot said he gave his terminally ill friend an oath that the show would go on.
“This is about standing up for what you believe in and I am a strong supporter of physician-assisted suicide,” said a Web site statement attributed to Tourtelot.

Tourtelot, 33, did not respond to messages left for him by The Associated Press on Friday. The other members of the band have not been heard from throughout the controversy, which has earned the group worldwide publicity.
Jason Trindade, the operator of a San Diego-based technology company that hosts the band’s Web site, said he would continue serving the site and carry the concert until he receives complaints from law enforcement officials to shut it down.
“They haven’t broken any law and I can’t just turn them off,” he said. “Myself, I think it’s pretty twisted.”
He said the site has been attacked by hackers, causing it to be temporarily shut down earlier this week. He says he has received threats of possible cyberattacks for Saturday’s concert.

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[Wonderful1908]

Originally posted by MeezDiscreet
http://www.msnbc.com/news/973386.asp

HELL ON EARTH leader Billy Tourtelot said on the band’s Web site Friday that the concert and suicide will take place in an undisclosed location in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The band intends to broadcast the event on its Web page and asks its fans to visit the site for the performance at 7:30 p.m. EDT.

Tourtelot’s announcement last month that he would host the suicide of a terminally ill fan led the city to ban the event with an ordinance and prompted a judge to issue an injunction against it.
Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist has said that anyone who assists in a suicide could be charged with a felony and face up to 15 years in prison.
Kevin Hayslett, an attorney for Tourtelot, said the band leader wanted to go ahead with the show despite the lawyer’s advice that he not do so. Hayslett said he did not know the concert’s location.
St. Petersburg city officials could not be reached late Friday. A police dispatcher said no one would be available to comment until Saturday.
The person threatening suicide has said he is dying and wants to promote his right-to-die views. Tourtelot said he gave his terminally ill friend an oath that the show would go on.
“This is about standing up for what you believe in and I am a strong supporter of physician-assisted suicide,” said a Web site statement attributed to Tourtelot.

Tourtelot, 33, did not respond to messages left for him by The Associated Press on Friday. The other members of the band have not been heard from throughout the controversy, which has earned the group worldwide publicity.
Jason Trindade, the operator of a San Diego-based technology company that hosts the band’s Web site, said he would continue serving the site and carry the concert until he receives complaints from law enforcement officials to shut it down.
“They haven’t broken any law and I can’t just turn them off,” he said. “Myself, I think it’s pretty twisted.”
He said the site has been attacked by hackers, causing it to be temporarily shut down earlier this week. He says he has received threats of possible cyberattacks for Saturday’s concert.

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I'm sorry but this is so not "us".

[CrimsonTide4]

(10/6/03, 12 p.m. ET) -- The webcast of a concert by Florida band Hell On Earth that was supposed to occur this past Saturday night (October 4), and feature a live suicide, did not happen, according to the Associated Press. The show and suicide were both scheduled to be broadcast on the band's website from two separate, secret locations, but the site was brought down Saturday night by a flood of data from computers in Hong Kong.

Jason Trindade, the operator of a San Diego-based technology company that hosts the site, said, "There's been a huge amount of traffic which causes the server to lock up. We can't handle that." Trindade said that Hell On Earth frontman Billy Tourtelot told him that the concert was postponed, possibly until next weekend. However, Tourtelot told the Associated Press that the concert did in fact happen, and that he was not aware of the webcast problems until after the show. He also did not know whether the suicide occurred.


Police and emergency dispatchers in St. Petersburg had no calls reporting a suicide on Saturday night, for at least four hours following the time when the event was supposed to take place.


Instead of the live broadcast of the performance and suicide, the band's website offered a link to another site, evilnow.com, and a simple message saying, "Next week the show will go on." Both sites were inaccessible for comment as of Sunday afternoon.


The city of St. Petersburg issued an ordinance last week making it illegal to promote a suicide for entertainment or commercial purposes, in order to stop the event from occurring. A local judge also slapped an injunction on Hell On Earth last Thursday (October 2), to keep them from going through with the performance.


The unidentified person who reportedly planned to commit suicide said that he or she would sue anyone who interfered. The person allegedly suffered from a terminal, debilitating illness and had exhausted all medical treatments.