# Michael Jackson Dead **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 25, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988 "2009-06-25T21:15:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/161 "2009-06-26T00:50:10Z")
During \*Jeopardy! \*a State Farm commercial came on with the J5 singing “I’ll Be There.” What bonehead didn’t think to pull that? ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/162 "2009-06-26T00:53:06Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > the one for the king of pop is under a red carpet that is out for the premier of bruno. > . Speaking of _ **Bruno** _, one reporter who saw the movie last night said that there’s a scene where Bruno is harassing LaToya Jackson and trying to get Michael’s phone number from her. I’m guessing that scene will likely be cut before the film goes into wide release. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/163 "2009-06-26T00:53:42Z")
What did the woman say to Michael Jackson at the beach? “You’re in my Sun” OK, OK, RIP Michael. I still have \*Off The Wall \*somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Myself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@Myself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myself)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/164 "2009-06-26T00:54:23Z")
With CNN online in the background, I was searching for a famous quote to put here. Then Larry King said exactly what I was thinking: “You didn’t want to love him, but it was hard not to.” I scanned the major US newspaper websites, all the online TV sites, and all the broadcast TV stations, the BBC and even Al Jazeera. They are all hip deep in the Jackson story. Who else could have stopped the world like this? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/165 "2009-06-26T00:56:39Z")
He stopped, He’d had enough. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/166 "2009-06-26T00:59:03Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I think he’s faking his death to avoid the concerts. I can’t blame him, I’d fake mine to avoid his concerts… Seriously though, sorry to hear the news, but I’m hardly surprised. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/167 "2009-06-26T01:00:01Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Well, some parts of his body were 50, other parts were in their 40s, other parts were in their 30s. It’d be interesting to see in what order he decomposes. I really really hate to add to the Snark Quotient of this thread (already at dangerously toxic levels), [but…](http://images.southparkstudios.com/media/images/807/807_image_12.jpg) That out of the way… I don’t know what kinds of demons drove him to do the things he did. He basically had the world on a platter, and proceeded to piss away his looks and his popularity for unknown reasons. He had a sad life-nothing else more to say really. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/168 "2009-06-26T01:01:02Z")
This may end up being like when Elvis died. He’s the only person I think could compare, manic-fan wise. That is Elvis and Madonna, but I think Madge is turning herself into jerky, so we shouldn’t have to worry about her for a while. He was talented, while I appreciated a few of his songs, I didn’t really understand the mania. Then again, I never do. ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/169 "2009-06-26T01:01:21Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Not really sure how I feel. Early Michael died long ago, IMO. Apparently [the real Michael Jackson died about 20 years ago.](http://johnny-ong.blogspot.com/2007/10/michael-jacksons-dead.html). This one was an imposter. > [@MOIDALIZE](#): > > [lol](http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3603/michaeljackson9735018.jpg) Holy crap that didn’t take long. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/170 "2009-06-26T01:01:33Z")
I loved Michael Jackson. He got really weird but he was a huge part of my growing up. I bet even people in India are grieving over him; they loved him over there. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/171 "2009-06-26T01:01:50Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > Guess the hypobaric chamber didn’t work. Oddly, that was one of my first thoughts too. If he hadn’t been such a sad, weird figure over the last 15+ years, this would have more of an effect on me. He hasn’t been the King of Pop in a loooong time. I feel bad for thinking that his kids might have a chance to grow up somewhat normally. Who gets custody if their biological mother has given up parental rights? ---
**Author:** ![sparky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@sparky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sparky_1)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/172 "2009-06-26T01:03:37Z")
Born in 1975, so I was young enough to know of him, but never got into his music or hype (Van Halen’s 1984 was it for myself and friends). I do remember everyone had to have those medal pins on their hats like him. Oh, and cabbage patch doll backpacks… anyway… I always thought him a talented artist with issues. I also always assumed the charges against him were overblown or false due to his freakishness in later years (no one can be this weird, oh, he molests kids too? surely you jest). Anyway, I am sad for him, though I never was a fan. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/173 "2009-06-26T01:05:33Z")
> [@Myself](#): > > “You didn’t want to love him, but it was hard not to.” Really? I didn’t have any trouble at all not loving that child abusing fucker. ---
**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 26, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/174 "2009-06-26T01:08:14Z")
> [@Auntbeast](#): > > This may end up being like when Elvis died. He’s the only person I think could compare, manic-fan wise. That is Elvis and Madonna, but I think Madge is turning herself into jerky, so we shouldn’t have to worry about her for a while. > > He was talented, while I appreciated a few of his songs, I didn’t really understand the mania. Then again, I never do. Yeah, but Elvis was never a kiddy-diddler. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/175 "2009-06-26T01:12:41Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > I’m trying to think of a comparable celebrity death here. For instance, do you think the death of, say, Madonna, would have a similar media impact? More? Less? Similar except Madonna isn’t reviled by as many people as Michael Jackson. Her worst quality is social climbing primadonna bitch, and that just doesn’t even rate next to ‘crazy pedophile’. I think I’d be sadder to hear that Madonna died. I’m not particularly sad that Michael Jackson is dead. To be totally honest, I am somewhat relieved. I know that’s not how I am ‘supposed’ to feel about it, but that is how I feel about it. The guy was a tormented mess and a danger to children, his own as well as those of others. I hope that his kids get a saner life with their Mothers who won’t keep them locked up behind burkas. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/176 "2009-06-26T01:13:07Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Yeah, but Elvis was never a kiddy-diddler. Well…he did meet Priscilla when she was 14 or something. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/177 "2009-06-26T01:16:07Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > It’s terrible that such a rich musical legacy had to be tarnished by the issues he encountered in his later years. It’s hard for me to reconcile the two. I feel like a part of my childhood just died. ☹ Ditto here. In fact, thinking about that led me to post [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=452091) about him a year and a half ago. Never thought he’d kick off so young, though. Damn. ETA: Wow, how apropos was **Argent Towers** ’ post in that thread? > [@](#): > > As bizarre as he is, it’s better that he’s still around to entertain us (intentionally or unintentionally) than prematurely dead of a drug overdose or suicide, as happens to so many child stars. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/178 "2009-06-26T01:17:50Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Loved him, loved him, loved him. RIP Michael. I really disliked him,but still feel sadness. RIP MJ ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/179 "2009-06-26T01:21:09Z")
I always felt sad for him. He was the wrong guy to be rich and famous. He could not handle any of it. He led such a strange and twisted life. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988/180 "2009-06-26T01:22:22Z")
From here: [King of Pop is dead at 50](http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-michael-jackson-dead26-2009jun26,0,2152435.story) _Law enforcement sources said that Los Angeles Police Department robbery-homicide detectives have opened an investigation into the death, though they stressed there is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing._ I’m guessing suicide. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-dead/500988.md?page=10)