we all knew this was coming…
so.
MJ is NOT alive people…
A video showing what APPEARS to be MJ getting out of the back of a coroner’s van was posted by German broadcaster RTL on YouTube for a day a week ago and received 880,000 hits. The broadcaster has since removed the video from YouTube, but I did a quick search for “MJ coroner video” and found it posted from another user…
“We wanted to show how easily users can be manipulated on the Internet with hoax videos,” spokesman Heike Schultz of Cologne-based RTL told The Associated Press. “Therefore, we created this video of Michael Jackson being alive, even though everybody knows by now that he is dead — and the response was breathtaking.”
The video — posted under an “anonymous source” — shows a coroner’s van entering what seems like a parking garage and the King of Pop getting out of the back with another person. The lighting is bad, the sound muffled and the footage appears amateurish. check it out once you jump the hump…
“Unfortunately, many people believed it was true,” Schultz said. “Even though we tried to create the video in a way that every normal user can see right away that it is a fake.”
She said the video was shot near Cologne — “definitely not in the U.S.” The van in the video had the word “CORONER” printed in English, suggesting it had been recorded in America.
RTL admitted to the hoax in an Aug. 26 report on its daily news show Explosiv.
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Posted: September 1st, 2009 under 2 hard 2 say goodbye..., Musicology.
Tags: celebrity, celebrity deaths, coroner, death, Germany, hoax, hoaxes, Michael Jackson, RTL, video