"To Stockton, Michael Jackson meant more to us than Jesus, to some people. I think they're both about even."
Posted on 07/06/2009 6:33:40 AM PDT by Daffynition
A Stockton family says the image of Michael Jackson appeared on his tree stump the day the King of Pop died.
Like the "Virgin Grilled Mary" or "Cheesus," the family thinks they've got an unusual spiritual image staring right at them from their own front yard. Felix Garcia has lived in the house for 22 years, and has never noticed the apparent image in his birch tree stump.
"I was standing by that bush, and I looked up and saw that image here," Felix said.
Many people in the crowd who gathered to look at the stump Sunday afternoon saw the resemblance, but why would Michael Jackson appear instead of a religious figure -- or even any of the other celebrities who recently passed away?
"Because Michael Jackson was an icon to us," said one neighbor. "To Stockton, Michael Jackson meant more to us than Jesus, to some people. I think they're both about even."
Jackson did visit the city 20 years ago, following the Cleveland School fatal shootings.
From afar, it looks like any other tree. From up close, it looks like any other stump. Not all neighbors are convinced -- some say it looks more like the Scarecrow, and some say it looks like Jesus.
The family says they don't expect their tree to become a shrine to Jackson, but they do hope that nobody tries to cut it down.
"To Stockton, Michael Jackson meant more to us than Jesus, to some people. I think they're both about even."
Right there is where I stopped reading this crap.
Jackson was a perverted pedophile...far from being a saint, far from anything other than being a perverted pedophile with a wish to be a white woman.
Disgusting.
What is the world coming to?
Hmmm.
That stump looks like something else.
Is anyone thinking the same thing I am?
Curious-
How many freepers are going to watch the funeral (or part of it tomorrow)? Come on. Admit it.
Nothing a little paint couldn’t fix.
LOL!!
Family sees dollar signs in tree trunk....Tree sees stunted growth in Jackson fans...
Check Mark 5:13
I could use a good laugh. I’ll probably give it about five to ten minutes.
Sick. Stupid and sick.
Now, a Cheeto that looks like Jesus, that's something.
These are the same people who voted for Obama ..........as a society and a people we are doomed.
So this is where we get the saying “As dumb as a stump: from.
Mel
Yes, looks exactly like Jackson. That crack is where the nose would have been.
“Sick. Stupid and sick.”
may I add...”and dumb as a stump!”
It looks absolutely NOTHING like MJ! The nose is too big.
(Actually I don’t see anything in this stump, no nose, no face, nothing. What is the matter with people?)
Looks like a donkey’s rear end to me.....come to think of it, it does look like Mjj!
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