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hannah-montana.jpg The Hannah Montana concert ticket sellout was the talk of the soccer fields Saturday.

Soccer moms, and some dads, were bummed about not being able to get tickets for their girls. Some had people deployed on the phone, on the Internet and in person. They said they were told they were sold out after only 3 minutes. Sweet niblets!

 So now all the Hannah tickets are showing up on eBay and the like, for way more than the ticket price.

They really need to figure out a way to prevent ticket scalpers from using computer programs to speed dial or connect with the ticket venues.

 But what really gets me is that some parents are actually going to pay $1,000 or more to take their  8- to 14-year-old daughter and her friends to a bubblegum pop concert. What are we teaching our kids?  I guess some people have more money than sense…

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