# It's the Michael Jackson Pool **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 14, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172 "2005-06-14T02:33:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/1 "2005-06-14T02:33:47Z")
We’ve got an SDMB Dead Pool; how about a new pool? Guess how long it will be before Micheal has his hand in a new kid’s Underoos. Will he take it easy for a while and build his nerve back up? Will he think he is now invincible and charge right back in? I’m thinking he’s gonna wuss out for a while, so I think he’ll probably be grabbing gonads around Christmas of this year. Bets? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/2 "2005-06-14T02:35:14Z")
He’s got his hands in some underroos right now. Prove me wrong. I win. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/3 "2005-06-14T02:36:21Z")
There was supposed to be a 🙂 at the of that post. Dunno where it went. ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/4 "2005-06-14T03:26:20Z")
Was it in your Underoos by any chance? 😃 (Being a female mine was safe.) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/5 "2005-06-14T03:30:50Z")
If I’m not mistaking, the 13 year old brother of Frank Tyson (one of the unindicted co-conspirators) is staying at NAMBLAland Ranch right now and word is, he regularly sleeps with PedoPan. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/6 "2005-06-14T03:33:02Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > If I’m not mistaking, the 13 year old brother of Frank Tyson (one of the unindicted co-conspirators) is staying at NAMBLAland Ranch right now and word is, he regularly sleeps with PedoPan. Where are you getting all this? This, and that the accusers in the trial are in witness protection. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/7 "2005-06-14T03:36:46Z")
Well, he was threatening to leave the country if he was acquitted. Why doesn’t he just move to Guatemala, molest all the kids he wants, and just pay off the authorities to look the other way? You gotta start thinking outside the box, Michael—_outside the box…_ :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/8 "2005-06-14T03:45:04Z")
Mostly from Court TV. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/9 "2005-06-14T03:53:37Z")
Well, this isn’t appropriate for **MPSIMS** , and it’s too much of a joke thread for the **Pit** , so I’m gonna have to say, say, say that it’s closed. (Sorry, **Clothahump**. If you were actually venting, it’d be **Pit** -worthy.) ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/10 "2005-06-14T17:44:56Z")
Since the OP [mentioned](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=321091) how he wanted this thread to originally grow into a fine, upstanding **Pit** citizen (Pitizen?), I’m gonna re-open it and move it over there. So, um… there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/11 "2005-06-14T17:56:32Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Since the OP [mentioned](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=321091) how he wanted this thread to originally grow into a fine, upstanding **Pit** citizen (Pitizen?), I’m gonna re-open it and move it over there. Only to be closed as soon as **Giraffe** notices it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/12 "2005-06-14T17:58:56Z")
People, people, people. The man’s been found not guilty by a **jury of his peers.** How’s _that_ for a dubious distinction? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/13 "2005-06-14T18:01:46Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > The man’s been found not guilty by a **jury of his peers.** There aren’t 12 peers of Jackson in the entire world. They had to make do with normal people. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/14 "2005-06-14T18:29:54Z")
Guin, you have the strangest obsession with MJ… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/15 "2005-06-14T19:21:45Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > Why doesn’t he just move to Guatemala, molest all the kids he wants, and just pay off the authorities to look the other way? That’s what I don’t understand. He needs to get away from his creditors, his career is in the toilet so he needs to reduce his cost of living, and he has this little pecker-dildo he’d just as soon not give up. The obvious choice is to move to a more, um, understanding country. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/16 "2005-06-14T19:46:44Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > Why doesn’t he just move to Guatemala, molest all the kids he wants, and just pay off the authorities to look the other way? [Guatemala would be a very very bad choice:](http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~border/spring2003/list_articles/0308-nytimes-lynchingsinguatemala.htm) > [@](#): > > In this market town tucked into the western highlands, picking a pocket can be a capital offense. > > The smallest crimes have provoked the most violent deaths in countless villages like this one, where the end of Guatemala’s 36-year civil war has brought neither law nor order to remote regions most ravaged by the conflict. > > Just this January, a screaming mob of 2,000 people grabbed two pickpocket suspects, tied their hands, dragged them to the outskirts of town, drenched them in gasoline and burned them alive. Police officers responding to the violence said they barely escaped with their lives, fleeing to the station house with no hope of pursuing justice. > > It was one of hundreds of lynchings since the peace accords were signed in 1996, officially ending a conflict that claimed 200,000 lives. Most of these deaths by hysterical mobs occur in indigenous villages where the worst war massacres took place, and most of the victims are young indigenous men. But in 2001, a Japanese tourist was killed in one village, and last year a lynching death occurred in the capital, Guatemala City. The Japanese tourist was killed on suspicion of kidnapping children ([link](http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/guatemala/japanese.htm)) > [@](#): > > A Japanese tourist and a Guatemalan bus driver were killed in a rural Indian market after being attacked by a mob of about 500 angry villagers who thought they were there to steal children, police said on Sunday. > > Tetsuo Yamahiro, 40, was killed when he and 22 other Japanese tourists were attacked with stones and sticks by a mob while visiting a Mayan market on Saturday in the highland village of Todos Santos Cuchumatan, police spokesman Faustino Sanchez said. > > Edgar Castellanos, a Guatemalan tour bus driver, was also killed in the attack in the town some 90 miles northwest of the capital. His body was doused in gasoline and partially burned. > > "The tourists were taking pictures of women and children in the market when someone started to scream that they were stealing children and a crowd of 500 villagers quickly closed in around them,’’ Sanchez said. MJ wouldn’t last a week in Guatemala. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/17 "2005-06-14T20:13:18Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > Only to be closed as soon as **Giraffe** notices it. 🙂 Nuh-uh. I checked it out with him beforehand. _Ring!_ “Hello, this is **Giraffe** , Da Pit Mod. How can I help you?” “Neck Boy, it’s Skip. I’s got dis thread, see, and–” “Say no more.” “Cool.” “Cool.” And then we hung up. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/18 "2005-06-14T20:25:52Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > He needs to get away from his creditors, his career is in the toilet so he needs to reduce his cost of living, and he has this little pecker-dildo he’d just as soon not give up. The obvious choice is to move to a more, um, understanding country. That might be a sensible choice, if we assume he has ever sexually interfered with a child in the past or intends to in the future. So far, the preponderance of evidence suggests that his assertion that he just likes to have innocent sleepovers with juveniles is actually true. There’s no denying that that’s a freaking weird pastime for a grown man, but it ain’t agin’ the law. I don’t think there _is_ a more understanding country when it comes to that whole not-punishing-someone-for-something-they-didn’t-do thing. As far as his creditors and career are concerned, if I had over 300 million in assets after my debts were cleared, I wouldn’t be wringing my hands too much about the cost of living or my ability to sell out a stadium show. Shit, even if you took away all his physical property except for a terry robe from the Holiday Inn and zeroed out his bank balance, his income from his catalogue would still make him unreasonably wealthy by any measurement. Maybe not Theme-Park-In-The-Backyard wealthy, but still hardly in a position to identify with Job. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/19 "2005-06-14T20:30:48Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > Nuh-uh. I checked it out with him beforehand. You left out all the crying and the begging. That was the best part! ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172/20 "2005-06-14T20:33:12Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > You left out all the crying and the begging. That was the best part! I didn’t want to tell anyone about **Dex** being there, damnit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-michael-jackson-pool/308172.md?page=2)