…and You’re Gonna Get Burned

I’m going to stick my neck out and say the 1984 Pepsi burn accident was an elaborate media hoax.

Despite the controversial nature of this subject I have to admit it’s most likely true, and it I am gathering the evidence to prove it.

I’ve put it up for debate on both mjdhi.com and mjhd.net and I haven’t seen any solid, reasonable argument that it’s not possible for Michael Jackson to have hoaxed the Pepsi accident. On the contrary,  the more I read exactly what few arguments exist against the theory, the more I start to realise it’s probably true.

I think we have to be REAL careful in what we THINK we know about Michael Jackson. We really only know what he wants us to see. How much of that is carefully designed and orchestrated? Discover the man you never knew? Thoughts I presented for debate to both forums that to date have gone unchallenged:

Maybe he punked Pepsi along with everyone else.

Maybe everyone in the crowd and crew thought it was real. Michael was already an accomplished actor by this time in his career.

We don’t really know for a fact that the pyro was what caught his hair on fire. We only know from the footage that they went off and then his hair had smoke coming from it.

Dave Dave could have been a clue pointing to this too. Michael disguised as a burn victim. Also the Pepsi footage media flood in mid July points toward this event being extremely significant.

The accident, in part, lead to the greatest endorsement deal ever, a Guiness record, Michael and his name benefited heavily from media coverage and sensationalism. It also paved the way for the resulting alleged Demerol addiction. Would pretending to be a drug addict benefit Michael Jackson? I have no idea but I suppose possibly. Depends on the agenda at the time maybe.

This incident also took place during Michael’s media hoax era between Thriller and Bad albums.

Maybe he considers the Pepsi incident his greatest media hoax ever, and this death hoax is the sequel… It would explain why the brothers are so prominent now and all of a sudden. Also the ushers uniforms at the burial being from the Victory tour now suddenly make perfect sense.

Maybe he donated the money and equipment to the childrens hospital to make the hoax all for L.O.V.E.

You can read the threads here on Souza and Mo’s forum:

http://michaeljacksonhoaxforum.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=10344

and here if you are a member of .net (boo, stupid policy):

http://www.michaeljacksonhoaxdeath.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=8331

A few others have come out in support of the theory on the forums. In particular, MJDHI forum member friendlikeme81 offered the following supportive facts and information to some of the debate points I presented.

Here’s a pic friendlikeme81 provided to illustrate the difference in Michael’s hair in the burn accident video and in the days just before and JUST AFTER.

Notice the size of his head in the middle pic and the density of the afro he suddenly had immediately after the fire is put out. The pic on the far right is Michael at the Grammy Awards just 4 weeks after the burn allegedly was suffered.

From above:

The accident… also paved the way for the resulting alleged Demerol addiction. Would pretending to be a drug addict benefit Michael Jackson? I have no idea but I suppose possibly. Depends on the agenda at the time maybe.

friendlikeme81 goes on to point out the following regarding alleged medical treatment Michael Jackson received following the accident:

3. no medical treatment after the accident:
Although he had third degree scalp burns, he was released from the Brotman Memorial Hospital one day later, on January 28th, and even visited other burn victims before leaving (source: A. Grant. A visual documentary)
If he was indeed injured with 3rd degree burns, he would never have been released that early, because the risk of infection would have been too high. The necessary medical treatment cannot be done over night! Michaels first appearance in public was his visit to the Los Angeles zoo in company of Emmauel Lewis on February 5th. If Michael was really injured, he would have risked his life by doing that!
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn:

From above:

We don’t really know for a fact that the pyro was what caught his hair on fire.

Pic provided by "friendlikeme81"

friendlikeme81 continues, pointing out that in the video of the accident footage, we never see the exact screen in which Michael’s hair is ignited, instead at that moment the screen goes white, then it flashes back to his head smoldering and he decends the stairs.

From above:

Dave Dave could have been a clue pointing to this too. Michael disguised as a burn victim. Also the Pepsi footage media flood in mid July points toward this event being extremely significant.

Pic provided by "friendlikeme81"

friendlikeme81 offers this explanation which gave me the chills and I know makes perfect sense now:

Miko was the first one on stage who reached Michael as Michael claims in his Moonwalk biography. Dave Dave is the character that is linked to Michael because both are burn victims. We know that Dave Dave is Michael at LKL, it is his disguise, a sort of second identity. He shows up with Miko Brando. It can be a coincidence because they are close friends, but it can also have a symbolic meaning: Michael’s burn victim hoax in 1984 + Miko and Michael’s burn victim hoax in 2009 + Miko.

I think we’ve been punked before and we are getting punked again. Pretty shocking really and yet I’m incredibly entertained.