# WTF is Jacko up to this time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607 "2002-11-19T20:36:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/1 "2002-11-19T20:36:03Z")
I just got back from lunch at a pub where Fox news was playing on the television, sound off. They were showing footage of Michael Jackson dangling a baby over a balcony ledge of a tall building! The baby’s head was covered with handkerchief or something. What the hell? Did this just happen today? ::off to look for some news links:: ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/2 "2002-11-19T20:47:02Z")
Geez, he’s certifiable. :eek: Won’t someone lock him up, please? it’s all over GoogleNews. Ananova has photos, doesn’t look like a hoax to me. [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm\_712494.html](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_712494.html) > [@](#): > > Jacko stunt stuns fans > > Michael Jackson has caused a stir when he dangled his young son from a hotel balcony. > > The pop star had been waving to his fans in Berlin when he brought the baby out onto the veranda of the third story room. > > He held the child, who had a towel over its head, with one arm and then briefly dangled the infant over the balcony railing of the Adlon Hotel. > > Jackson then hurried back into his room with the child. > > The child was Jackson’s third and youngest, Prince Michael II, said Antje Sigesmund, a spokeswoman for the Bambi entertainment award ceremony. > > Story filed: 20:17 Tuesday 19th November 2002 ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/3 "2002-11-19T20:50:40Z")
Oh, and that Bambi thing is like the German Oscars–it’s rumored that he’s in Berlin to pick up a Lifetime Achievement Bambi Award. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/4 "2002-11-19T20:52:31Z")
Should it stay in Jacko’s care, behaviour like this suggests the baby truly will Die Another Day. That action truly was unexcusable. There’s going to be a huge backlash over this one. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/5 "2002-11-19T20:54:13Z")
It’s also inexcusable. _sigh_ Truly. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/6 "2002-11-19T21:00:42Z")
Ooops, I just posted this subject over in MPSIMS, as well—sorry! ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/7 "2002-11-19T21:01:55Z")
He has kids named Prince Michael Jackson, Jr. AND Prince Michael Jackson II? Some people really shouldn’t be parents. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/8 "2002-11-19T21:03:25Z")
And maybe I should post a warning to all the tenderhearted Dopers, 'cause those photos of him dangling a baby _with one hand_ from a third-story balcony are pretty chilling. Pit thread started, 'cause the more I look at those pictures of a baby trying to hang on with his feet, the more I feel a need to express myself in Anglo-Saxon euphemisms. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=145061](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=145061) ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/9 "2002-11-19T21:07:13Z")
Eeeeek! I knew he was pretty loopy, but what kind of person does that?? I don’t suppose anyone can do anything about this, can they? CPS, say? (I wish.) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/10 "2002-11-19T21:08:59Z")
Are we sure it was a baby? One of the links - I don’t think it’s one of the ones in this thread, but another thread - said it might have been a doll, and that it was all a joke. And given that the fella doesn’t appear to be Right in the Head, maybe he thought it would be funny? I dunno. Does look like the real deal to me, too. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/11 "2002-11-19T21:10:57Z")
I saw TV footage - it’s a real baby, all right. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/12 "2002-11-19T21:13:02Z")
dan, I started to say earlier that they’ll probably say this was just a doll to cover their asses. This guy’s gone. Pure d gone. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/13 "2002-11-19T21:27:07Z")
Uri Geller vouches for Jacko and if you can’t trust Uri Geller then what is the world coming to? Marc ---
**Author:** ![Delphinus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Delphinus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delphinus)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/14 "2002-11-19T21:46:02Z")
Ummm, Vicoden or any other of a number of drugs that he must be on to numb the pain of that horrific surgery he has had done, would probably cause him to get highly excited and hang his baby out the window without thought of serious repercussion. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/15 "2002-11-19T21:47:45Z")
" . . . would probably cause him to get highly excited and hang his baby out the window . . . " Admittedly, I have a dirty mind, but that just doesn’t sound nice. ---
**Author:** ![dragongirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dragongirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragongirl)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/16 "2002-11-19T22:27:03Z")
Michael Jackson is an unfit parent, someone should remove those kids from his care. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/17 "2002-11-19T22:59:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Delphinus \* > \*\*without thought of serious repercussion. \*\* Not to worry; he’s been using drum machines since 1982. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/18 "2002-11-19T23:09:25Z")
There’s a [video](http://www.feedroom.com) of this little incident out now. It looks like he threw the towel covering the baby’s face out to the crowd after the baby was returned to the room. ---
**Author:** ![Spacegirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Spacegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spacegirl)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/19 "2002-11-19T23:22:20Z")
Wow, it looks even weirder after seeing the video. He had some wierd smile on his face the whole time (maybe it was the plastic surgery). He also looked really clumsy the way he was holding the baby. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607/20 "2002-11-19T23:38:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dragongirl \* > \*\*Michael Jackson is an unfit parent, someone should remove those kids from his care. \*\* Like they’re even in his care. I’d bet good money that there’s a host of nannies and the like and he hardly ever goes near them. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wtf-is-jacko-up-to-this-time/137607.md?page=2)