Posted on 06/15/2002 3:26:48 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
EXETER, England (Reuters) - Michael Jackson was knocked to the ground Friday by excited fans fighting to touch the pop legend at a London railway station.
The American superstar, jostled and pushed in the melee, was lucky to escape injury as mass hysteria gripped his die-hard admirers.
"It was just horrifying ... he was knocked to the ground," said spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller who had invited Jackson on a fund-raising charity trip to the southwest English city of Exeter.
"I honestly thought we wouldn't make it and we would end up in hospital," Geller told Reuters Television after battling to get aboard the "Jackson Express."
"For a moment I thought he would faint. But then he suddenly looked at me and said 'I love these people' and I said 'Are you okay?' He said 'I am okay' and kept waving to his fans," Geller added.
Geller, who is hoping to raise money for a children's charity and his third division English soccer club Exeter, said he had never before experienced anything like the screaming mob.
"I have been around for 35 years. I have met Elvis Presley, Elton John, John Lennon, all the Beatles. I have never ever seen anything like that and I hope I never will see it again. Michael was crushed," Geller said.
Bedlam erupted as Jackson and his entourage arrived at London's Paddington station to board the train to Exeter as a screaming mob of fans from all corners of the globe tried to get close to their idol.
Each excitably clutching a $150 "ticket to ride," 100 die-hard Jackson fans clambered aboard the train for "country away day" with the star.
The scene at the station was pure chaos, recalling Beatlemania back in the 1960s.
Scuffles erupted and extra police were called as the fans surged forward on the platform.
The scene was in stark contrast to a rather more sedate tour the Jackson team took through the echoing halls of the Houses of Parliament in central London.
"I want that," the pop legend told his entourage as he admired the throne where Britain's monarch sits once a year to formally open parliament in the ornate House of Lords.
"Can you get it up to the ranch?" one of his assistants asked three burly bodyguards.
Jackson, accompanied by Geller and escapologist David Blaine, showed particular interest in the extensive House of Lords library. "Do they have cartoons?" Jackson asked.
Blaine asked librarians to track down a copy of a 400-year-old book of magic -- "The Discovery of Witchcraft." "They burned most of the copies," he explained.
When the child molestation charges hit the fan, Jackson trotted out pre-pubescent boys to issues statements to the press, saying that they had slept in the same bed with him, but "nothing happened."
Jackson did not spend $20 million to avoid trial because "nothing happened."
Grown men with normal heterosexual tendencies do not have prepubescent boys to their house for sleep-overs, much less get in the sack with them overnight.
I don't think that this blatant (and likely expensive) charade orchestrated by the Jackson PR agents will carry over to sales. Jackson is a barely recognizable washed-up has-been from 1983, and nothing is going to change that.
Really? It sure doesn't come across on tv.
Sorry, didnt mean to imply that. He may well be a pederast. I certainly would not trust him with any of my children. I just said, he was never convicted of anything. No proof. As things stand at this moment: M.Jackson is rich, famous, white, and over 21.
Happy about it? No.
But I will honestly report that there can be no true Christians following after M. Jackson.
But you can ally yourself with him and still be a conservative. You just can't be saved from your sins.
He's a Pederast. He's a pervert. And if anyone that wants to love his sin (by swooning over him or buying his records or CD's or supporting him) shows who they love more. I don't want people to go to Hell, just like Jesus Christ did not come into the world to condemn it- it's just a fact that they are going there if they don't believe and repent.
John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Well,we can agree on that,anyhow.
Yes, he did, among many other mentalist charlatans.
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