(BVNBACKSPIN)Since Michael Jackson was laid to rest last year, countless fans have been leaving gifts in his memory at the Forest Lawn Cemetery. People gather every day outside the California cemetery to leave mementos for the pop icon, whose career spanned nearly five decades.
The burial site’s designated area for Jackson’s mementos is so overrun with stuff that has accumulated, that the administrators have put in place a schedule, whereas the pop icon’s gifts will be discarded after a certain time. As far as flowers for Jackson are concerned, if you want to leave them, you can, but it will cost you. Not only will you have to buy them at the cemetery’s flower shop but a charge of $3 will be added to have them delivered to his mausoleum.
The fee to send a floral arrangement holds true for everyone buried at Forest Lawn according to their spokesperson. In Jackson’s case, the arrangement will be taken inside his mausoleum; fans still aren’t allowed to enter the sanctuary.
From now on, if you want to leave anything besides flowers (pictures, candles, cards, figurines) for Jackson, you can rest assured that they will get dumped, so you might want to think twice! Once the space inside the mausoleum runs out and flowers can no longer be left, they will get placed outside of the structure, then dumped.
Talk about trying to make a buck!
