# Helicopters, Michael Jackson and Me. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 20, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helicopters-michael-jackson-and-me/214349 "2003-11-20T19:26:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helicopters-michael-jackson-and-me/214349/21 "2003-11-21T17:43:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ale \* > \*\*He liked you when you were a kid too… 😛 \*\* Well, yeah, but I’m talking about around 1982, when he wasn’t really getting strange yet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![djf750](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@djf750](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djf750)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helicopters-michael-jackson-and-me/214349/22 "2003-11-21T18:10:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PhiloVance \* > \*\*:eek: :eek: :eek: > > in Santa Barbara? > Color me Surprised;) 😉 😉 \*\* Are you kidding? This place is loaded with them. Gee, the other night one slept outside our office. I was going to tell him to go to a shelter but I thought “give the guy a break, he’s already got his sleeping bag nice and comfortable.” And guess what he left for all to see the next morning? Let’s just say he forgot to flush the toilet. Haj, what has happened to paradise? ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helicopters-michael-jackson-and-me/214349/23 "2003-11-21T18:11:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Avalonian \* > \*\*Gods, if Jacko’s [mug shot](http://a799.g.akamai.net/3/799/388/475ec944aeceae/www.msnbc.com/news/2075264.jpg) isn’t one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen. > > I think if Tim Burton were making _Batman_ now instead of 15 years ago, Jack Nicholson wouldn’t even have had a shot at the role of The Joker. \*\* My wife suggested that at some point, while incarcerated perhaps, we might get a picture of Michael Jackson _without_ his makeup. She’s really twisted and dark. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Beagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beagle)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helicopters-michael-jackson-and-me/214349/24 "2003-11-21T18:27:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\*[Here’s one.](http://www.msnbc.com/news/996261.asp) \*\* > [@](#): > > Nov. 20 — One hour after hearing about the sex-abuse allegations against Michael Jackson on Wednesday, Las Vegas hotel attendant Donna Green and her two teenagers donned the I BELIEVE MICHAEL JACKSON buttons she’d made for earlier Jackson controversies and picketed outside a local music-video studio used by the pop star… > > …"Look, if you’re a child molester, you think you’re only going to molest two children in your whole lifetime? He’s had hundreds and hundreds of children around him. Don’t you think there would be others making these claims if he was really like that? There’s something in me that knows he’s not guilty. With Michael, I just know. With friends like this… To use Don Imus as an [example, :eek:.](http://www.wfan.com/bios/local_bio_imusdon_html/) He has a ranch for – kids – with cancer. I’ll bet [issues](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/newimus1.html) like molestation don’t come up. See, I could have kids for a “sleepover,” too. _In the freaking guest room, preferably with their parents._ ---
**Author:** ![shelbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shelbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shelbo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helicopters-michael-jackson-and-me/214349/25 "2003-11-21T18:36:34Z")
We have only the daytime TV watchers to blame! The stations running live shots (from a Helicopter!) of a private jet parked on the tarmac at the Santa Barbara airport, while freely admitting that they had no idea whether or not it was Michael Jackson’s, or even whether it was coming or going, got huge ratings! (At least according to a friend that works at KTLA in Los Angeles.) I imagine the ratings dropped a bit after the plane flew away – but maybe not. (See, this is the airport runway where we believe that sometime in the next 48 hours Michael Jackson’s plane will land!! Let’s go now to our aviation analyst for an update!) ---
**Author:** ![Titan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Titan2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Titan2)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helicopters-michael-jackson-and-me/214349/26 "2003-11-22T00:08:36Z")
Take heart Santa Barbarans.This spectacle seems to have played out in sin city,too.Check the RJ "Odd 3 hour journey"top page, for a complete play by play. From the story- Police did not become concerned with the spectacle until several hundred cars began following the superstar’s sport utility vehicle, creating a massive caravan. A police squad car was dispatched to block traffic from following.------------ How’d you like to be part of that in your daily commute? ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helicopters-michael-jackson-and-me/214349/27 "2003-11-22T07:46:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Avalonian \* > **Gods, if Jacko’s [mug shot](http://a799.g.akamai.net/3/799/388/475ec944aeceae/www.msnbc.com/news/2075264.jpg) isn’t one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen.** The saddest thing is that he had to pay for that face. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helicopters-michael-jackson-and-me/214349/28 "2003-11-22T15:57:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by djf750 \* > \*\*Are you kidding? This place is loaded with them. Gee, the other night one slept outside our office. I was going to tell him to go to a shelter but I thought “give the guy a break, he’s already got his sleeping bag nice and comfortable.” > > And guess what he left for all to see the next morning? Let’s just say he forgot to flush the toilet. > > Haj, what has happened to paradise? \*\* I have spent the majority of my career working in high tech in Goleta. Not too much of a homeless problem there but there is the guy who wears the sack over his face and points a hairdryer at passing cars in front of the Taco Bell on Hollister. Now I work out of my house though. Paradise is doing just fine, **dfj750** , remember it was only ten, twelve years ago when 30% of the storefronts on State St. were empty. We’ll just have to endure the media pukes hanging out for a while. If we’re lucky, Santa Maria will have to deal with this. The ranch is closer to there, isn’t it? Haj [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helicopters-michael-jackson-and-me/214349.md?page=1)