Jacko Wacko.
November 19, 2002 10:44 PM Subscribe
Jacko Wacko. King Solomon had threatened to tear a baby in two in an attempt to find out who the real mother was. Michael Jackson, whose face has graced far too many websites in the past few days, holds his own child over the fourth floor balcony of his hotel room.
Any doubts of his paternity?
This post was deleted for the following reason:
Thus completes Tuesday's trifecta of lame quasi-tabloid news posts. Tomorrow is, as always, Weekly World News Wednesday. Wonder what that zany BatBoy has been up to lately...
posted by Danelope at 11:08 PM on November 19, 2002
posted by Danelope at 11:08 PM on November 19, 2002
"Goodbye Mr. Bond. I trust you had a pleasant.. fright?" -- Blofeld
posted by Ljubljana at 11:11 PM on November 19, 2002
posted by Ljubljana at 11:11 PM on November 19, 2002
Ha ha! Can we deride the child star who has seemingly been emotionally--and now physically--destroyed by the American star culture some more? It's so much fun!
Maybe they should show all this slop to the next parent who decides their kid is a good way to make money. You know, so they can't plead ignorance after the sell their children on the white market.
posted by The God Complex at 11:41 PM on November 19, 2002
Maybe they should show all this slop to the next parent who decides their kid is a good way to make money. You know, so they can't plead ignorance after the sell their children on the white market.
posted by The God Complex at 11:41 PM on November 19, 2002
I think the mob has spoken. Clearly this story wants to be discussed on Metafilter.
posted by donkeyschlong at 12:04 AM on November 20, 2002
posted by donkeyschlong at 12:04 AM on November 20, 2002
I think the mob has spoken. Clearly this story wants to be discussed on Metafilter.
And like any good intellectual elitists (or pseudo intellectual elitists, as my case may be), we should probably do the right thing and rub everyone's nose in it until they figure out it's wrong, wrong, wrong!
*pout* we could at least derail it.
posted by The God Complex at 12:06 AM on November 20, 2002
And like any good intellectual elitists (or pseudo intellectual elitists, as my case may be), we should probably do the right thing and rub everyone's nose in it until they figure out it's wrong, wrong, wrong!
*pout* we could at least derail it.
posted by The God Complex at 12:06 AM on November 20, 2002
Baby dangling - I'm for it.
I suppose you liberals want the government to tell Mr. Jackson that he has to register his babies. Or something.
posted by 2sheets at 12:52 AM on November 20, 2002
I suppose you liberals want the government to tell Mr. Jackson that he has to register his babies. Or something.
posted by 2sheets at 12:52 AM on November 20, 2002
Jackson = Sphinx
He can cut guns in half with his mind? Cool!
posted by backOfYourMind at 2:33 AM on November 20, 2002
He can cut guns in half with his mind? Cool!
posted by backOfYourMind at 2:33 AM on November 20, 2002
Why were the previous two threads deleted, anyway? This story is certainly a more interesting and less inane than at least some others that get posted.
Which horseman is Jackson again, anyway?
posted by KiloHeavy at 3:03 AM on November 20, 2002
Which horseman is Jackson again, anyway?
posted by KiloHeavy at 3:03 AM on November 20, 2002
Double post, technical foul Kilo.
Found a link to the video ... the pictures don't do the incident justice. Jackson barely had control of the squirming infant and very nearly dropped him.
It's really disturbing.
See for yourself.
posted by KiloHeavy at 3:10 AM on November 20, 2002
Found a link to the video ... the pictures don't do the incident justice. Jackson barely had control of the squirming infant and very nearly dropped him.
It's really disturbing.
See for yourself.
posted by KiloHeavy at 3:10 AM on November 20, 2002
This is a widely disseminated story that people would generally have seen without MeFi's help, kilo. And that doesn't matter anyway- Matt's deleted it twice already, so that de facto means it don't fit.
Liked the horseman bit though :).
posted by gsteff at 3:19 AM on November 20, 2002
Liked the horseman bit though :).
posted by gsteff at 3:19 AM on November 20, 2002
Video at MSNBC and at CNN, two prominent news sources.
News sources, that is. *blink* *blink*
posted by hama7 at 3:24 AM on November 20, 2002
News sources, that is. *blink* *blink*
posted by hama7 at 3:24 AM on November 20, 2002
As disturbing as baby dangling is - the fact that toddlers are even in the presence of MJ is more worrisome to me.
posted by revbrian at 3:28 AM on November 20, 2002
posted by revbrian at 3:28 AM on November 20, 2002
Just out of curiousity, what would happen if he'd pulled this crap in the US? I seem to recall some woman getting arrested last summer because her kids got a bad case of sunburn.
I saw the video and couldn't believe it; he clearly was endangering the baby.
posted by Mutant at 4:26 AM on November 20, 2002
I saw the video and couldn't believe it; he clearly was endangering the baby.
posted by Mutant at 4:26 AM on November 20, 2002
Saw this on the Today show this morning, and all I can say is, I'd be nuts to hold a baby that loosely just standing in a plushly carpeted room, let alone leaning over a freaking balcony.
posted by alumshubby at 5:13 AM on November 20, 2002
posted by alumshubby at 5:13 AM on November 20, 2002
whose face has graced far too many websites in the past few days
So why add this one?
posted by normy at 6:08 AM on November 20, 2002
So why add this one?
posted by normy at 6:08 AM on November 20, 2002
just to keep the number of posts rolling.
when i saw this footage, and i found it disproportionally shocking. i mean, of all the shocking scenes i have experienced in my life, why did seeing the baby dangle so affect me? i can't say, but i couldn't speak for 5 minutes. i really was in shock.
that jackson fellow scares me.
posted by asok at 6:10 AM on November 20, 2002
when i saw this footage, and i found it disproportionally shocking. i mean, of all the shocking scenes i have experienced in my life, why did seeing the baby dangle so affect me? i can't say, but i couldn't speak for 5 minutes. i really was in shock.
that jackson fellow scares me.
posted by asok at 6:10 AM on November 20, 2002
He has a son named Prince Michael and another son named Prince Michael II (according to the Baby Dangler article).
posted by kirkaracha at 6:11 AM on November 20, 2002
posted by kirkaracha at 6:11 AM on November 20, 2002
Well, on the positive side, if he's busy dangling them, he can't be molesting them.
posted by chris24 at 6:22 AM on November 20, 2002
posted by chris24 at 6:22 AM on November 20, 2002
www.DoublePostDrudgeFilter.com
He has a son named Prince Michael and another son named Prince Michael II
Like Rocky, right? Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, et cetera...
They're not kids, they're sequels
posted by matteo at 6:30 AM on November 20, 2002
He has a son named Prince Michael and another son named Prince Michael II
Like Rocky, right? Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, et cetera...
They're not kids, they're sequels
posted by matteo at 6:30 AM on November 20, 2002
Well, he is definitely Bad and Dangerous.
To quote Sir Jacko himself, in the lyrics of the timeless "The Way You Make Me Feel" - Ain't nobody's business, ain't nobody's business but mine and my baby. Hee hee! Hee hee! Ooh!
posted by thatweirdguy2 at 6:33 AM on November 20, 2002
To quote Sir Jacko himself, in the lyrics of the timeless "The Way You Make Me Feel" - Ain't nobody's business, ain't nobody's business but mine and my baby. Hee hee! Hee hee! Ooh!
posted by thatweirdguy2 at 6:33 AM on November 20, 2002
Metafilter: Hee hee! Hee hee! Ooh!
posted by iceberg273 at 6:38 AM on November 20, 2002
posted by iceberg273 at 6:38 AM on November 20, 2002
Call me crazy (for my opinion and for bothering to post in a doomed thread) but it didn't look that bad to me at all. My dad used to sit me up on the balcony railing almost exactly like that when I was not much older, with one arm around my chest. From the comments in here I expected to see him swinging the baby back and forth over the void or something.
posted by Nothing at 6:45 AM on November 20, 2002
posted by Nothing at 6:45 AM on November 20, 2002
For those keeping score at home, this story was deleted twice from MetaFilter yesterday. And with good reason. It doesn't belong here. Maybe we need a lofi MetaFilter with only deleted posts, linked with the posting guidelines. There's got to be something that can save us from these lame and tired jokes.
As I said the first time this was posted, just before Matt deleted it: when people whine about "NewsFilter", this is what they're talking about. There's nothing of great interest in these links; there's nothing that merits further discussion. There's nothing that can't be found in a thousand other places. And while I'm sure we could sit here all day swapping bad nose jokes, don't we have better things to do?
Matt's going to delete this thread too, most likely. Hopefully, it will sink in that that's a good thing.
posted by UnReality at 7:13 AM on November 20, 2002
As I said the first time this was posted, just before Matt deleted it: when people whine about "NewsFilter", this is what they're talking about. There's nothing of great interest in these links; there's nothing that merits further discussion. There's nothing that can't be found in a thousand other places. And while I'm sure we could sit here all day swapping bad nose jokes, don't we have better things to do?
Matt's going to delete this thread too, most likely. Hopefully, it will sink in that that's a good thing.
posted by UnReality at 7:13 AM on November 20, 2002
Actually, it was deleted three times -- check lofi.
posted by mcwetboy at 7:38 AM on November 20, 2002
posted by mcwetboy at 7:38 AM on November 20, 2002
My mistake. When this one is deleted, how long until someone else posts "Hey! Didja hear what Michael Jackson did the other day?!"
posted by UnReality at 7:49 AM on November 20, 2002
posted by UnReality at 7:49 AM on November 20, 2002
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