Michael Jackson Suffers Cardiac Arrest, Then beat it

Queso (netAirspace ATC Tower Chief & Founding Member) 25 Jun 09, 22:55

At least they won't have to bother with embalming his body, the outside is mostly plastic by now.

Slider... <sniff, sniff>... you stink.

PA110 (Founding Member) 25 Jun 09, 23:01

As a colleague at work just remarked... Michael Jackson has finally found that "whiter shade of pale".

Look, it's been swell, but the swelling's gone down.

ANCFlyer (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 25 Jun 09, 23:12

PA110 wrote:As a colleague at work just remarked... Michael Jackson has finally found that "whiter shade of pale".

MJ is a whiteboy!!!!

{bugeye}

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LET'S GO BRANDON!!!!

Queso (netAirspace ATC Tower Chief & Founding Member) 25 Jun 09, 23:16

I checked out his Wikipedia page a little earlier and found it locked for edits, and even the discussion page was semi-protected!

Poking around a little more I found this, you might get a page load error if you click on it, it's VERY busy right now so here's the full text:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10273277-93.html

Michael Jackson's death roils Wikipedia

As news organizations reported Michael Jackson's hospitalization on Thursday afternoon, Wikipedia editors were wrestling with the problem of whether to allow an unverified report of the singer's death to appear on the online encyclopedia.

The entertainment site TMZ.com reported at 2:20 p.m. PDT that: "We're told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back."

Some Wikipedians repeatedly deleted references to Jackson's alleged demise, saying in separate comments that "This is not yet verified," "He's not dead," "Premature edits," and "ONCE AGAIN, HE IS NOT DEAD, JUST STOP."

But they were too slow for the legions of Wikipedia users who descended on the site and repeatedly modified the entry about the pop star. The typical edit was to insert Thursday as the date of Jackson's demise. Others were more subtle; one used the word "was" instead of "is," while another edit called "Invincible" his "last studio album."

By around 3:15 p.m. PDT, Wikipedia appeared to be temporarily overloaded. The site reported the error: "Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties... Cannot contact the database server: Unknown error (10.0.6.24))"

Plenty of blogs echoed TMZ's report, but news organizations tended to be more cautious. Fox News said Jackson's "condition wasn't immediately clear," while Reuters cited TMZ.

The Los Angeles Times initially reported that Jackson was in a coma, and then updated its story at 3:15 p.m. PDT to say: "Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in a deep coma, city and law enforcement sources told The Times." (The Times' Web server was overloaded and could only be reached intermittently.)

Around the same time, the Wikipedia editors had finally intervened in the edit-and-delete-the-edits scrum. One locked two articles about Jackson and his health for about six hours, which prevented them from being modified until the situation became more clear.

Slider... <sniff, sniff>... you stink.

Mark 25 Jun 09, 23:17

I wanna see the autopsy report. {mischief}

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AndesSMF (Founding Member) 25 Jun 09, 23:22

Mark wrote:I wanna see the autopsy report.

I'd bet it would be very, very interesting read.

What would you expect to see?

Einstein said two things were infinite; the universe, and stupidity. He wasn't sure about the first, but he was certain about the second.

CO777ER (Database Editor & Founding Member) 25 Jun 09, 23:23

Knowing how weird his lifestyle is, he probably OD'd on some pain pills.

TUSpilot (Founding Member) 25 Jun 09, 23:24

Apparently most of the people I know feel the need to update their Facebook status' to mention his passing in some way or another. At least one had the guts to say he doesn't give a fvck. {thumbsup}

The news media is falling over themselves too. Look at any of their websites. He had some interesting songs, but I think most people will remember him for his pedophilia.

We live in a galaxy far far away and we STILL have to connect in ATL.

Mark 25 Jun 09, 23:27

AndesSMF wrote:
Mark wrote:I wanna see the autopsy report.

I'd bet it would be very, very interesting read.

What would you expect to see?

Since I posted my initial suspicions, I found out that he's been working out to get up to par to handle the 50 concerts he had coming up. The workouts lasted six hours a day and four days a week. He also went for weekly physicals to make sure he wasn't overdoing it, each of which determined he was in good shape.

That said, I suspect he had a good, old-fashioned major heart attack

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AndesSMF (Founding Member) 25 Jun 09, 23:31

But his family doesn't have a history of heart problems AFAIK.

So there must be some other trigger.

Could it also be a similar situation to what happened to John Ritter?

Einstein said two things were infinite; the universe, and stupidity. He wasn't sure about the first, but he was certain about the second.

Queso (netAirspace ATC Tower Chief & Founding Member) 25 Jun 09, 23:33

Our thread on this subject sure looks a lot different than a thread on the same subject on another aviation forum website.

Slider... <sniff, sniff>... you stink.

Mark 25 Jun 09, 23:34

AndesSMF wrote:But his family doesn't have a history of heart problems AFAIK.

So there must be some other trigger.

Could it also be a similar situation to what happened to John Ritter?

Ritter ruptured his aorta, IIRC. That could be it, too.

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AndesSMF (Founding Member) 25 Jun 09, 23:40

I read in one place that he may have been alone for a while, so it could be it.

The torn aorta feels like a bad case of heartburn at the beginning, right?

Einstein said two things were infinite; the universe, and stupidity. He wasn't sure about the first, but he was certain about the second.

Mark 25 Jun 09, 23:43

AndesSMF wrote:I read in one place that he may have been alone for a while, so it could be it.

The torn aorta feels like a bad case of heartburn at the beginning, right?

A dissecting aorta might do that. However, one thing that is universally reported by sufferers is a sudden onset of NONORTHOPEDIC excruciating lower back pain without a history of recent injury.

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AndesSMF (Founding Member) 25 Jun 09, 23:51

That sounds as if those who suffer it may wait too long to get to a doctor.

Einstein said two things were infinite; the universe, and stupidity. He wasn't sure about the first, but he was certain about the second.

Queso (netAirspace ATC Tower Chief & Founding Member) 26 Jun 09, 00:06

AndesSMF wrote:That sounds as if those who suffer it may wait too long to get to a doctor.

Yeah, especially if we they have a history of kidney stones, it might just feel like another one coming on.

Slider... <sniff, sniff>... you stink.

GQfluffy (Database Editor & Founding Member) 26 Jun 09, 00:08

Queso wrote:
AndesSMF wrote:That sounds as if those who suffer it may wait too long to get to a doctor.

Yeah, especially if we they have a history of kidney stones, it might just feel like another one coming on.

Oh thanks for that comforting thought...

My thoughts (per my facebook)-

...says all the little kids in the world are now safe. Oh...uh...RIP 'King of Pop.' It's been a tough week on Celebs...

Teller of no, fixer of everything, friend of the unimportant and all around good guy; the CAD Monkey

Mark 26 Jun 09, 00:31

Hmmmm.... Jackson's publicist hinted that the enabling that went on around Jackson will make the Anna Nicole Smith death look tiny in comparison. Drugs, you say? Hmmmm....

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JeffSFO (Photo Quality Screener & Founding Member) 26 Jun 09, 00:39

I couldn't stand him or his music and am glad he's dead. The video below is the most entertaining thing to come from Michael Jackson's life:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17y9f_triumph-and-themichael-jackson-tria_fun

As for my Facebook status, I put:

Who cares about MJ? Abe Vigoda lives on! http://www.abevigoda.com/

Cadet57 26 Jun 09, 00:45

JeffSFO wrote: and am glad he's dead.

Like him or not I could care less. But to be happy someone died? {crazy}

JeffSFO (Photo Quality Screener & Founding Member) 26 Jun 09, 00:56

Cadet57 wrote:Like him or not I could care less. But to be happy someone died?

As I said, I couldn't stand the guy and sure as hell won't miss him.

miamiair (netAirspace FAA) 26 Jun 09, 00:58

JeffSFO wrote:
Cadet57 wrote:Like him or not I could care less. But to be happy someone died?

As I said, I couldn't stand the guy and sure as hell won't miss him.

Same could be said for OBL and Fidel Castro...

They'll have a party in Miami when he kicks the bucket.

Now MJ is a pale shade of gray. The boogeyman is gone.

And let's get one thing straight. There's a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight. — E. B. Jeppesen

jpetekUA777 (Founding Member) 26 Jun 09, 01:00

I'm not sure i'd compare Michael Jackson to Osama bin Laden.

Queso (netAirspace ATC Tower Chief & Founding Member) 26 Jun 09, 01:15

jpetekUA777 wrote:I'm not sure i'd compare Michael Jackson to Osama bin Laden.

I don't think anybody is, they are comparing the feelings of indifference at their deaths.

Slider... <sniff, sniff>... you stink.

Allstarflyer (Database Editor & Founding Member) 26 Jun 09, 02:26

People gathered at the wrong star on the Walk of Fame.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2 ... son-7.html

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