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Wacko Jacko was here! Hua Hin link to pop stars death
HUA HIN, thailand Reports are emerging that pop superstar Michael Jackson, who, in case you hadn’t heard, died last week from a heart attack, was in Hua Hin just days before tragedy struck the eccentric megastar. Eye witnesses report seeing him at a local well known hospital in the town - a nurse at the hospital said, “We get a lot of strange farang coming here, and I didn’t think much of what I saw until I saw the TV about Michael Jackson. Last week, this scrawny white man wearing a surgical mask and a glove came in complaining of a pain in his stomach. When I asked him how he felt, he said ‘I’m bad, I’m bad, I’m really, really bad’ so we quickly rushed him to the doctor who ordered that his stomach be pumped. We figured he was just another farang who had drunk
Is this Michael Jackson arriving at the hospital in Hua Hin? too much, but when I thought about it, he did look very familiar.” Understandably the nurse did not want to elaborate further on the medical treatment, but added, “After the stomach pump he said he was much better, but I was a bit concerned about him. I asked him if he was sure he was OK, but all he wanted to know was about plastic surgery and colonic irrigation, which seemed to get him quite
excited.Then he quickly beat it.” Apparently the realisation that it might be Michael Jackson only dawned on staff at the hospital when the news broke of his death last Thursday. AWOL has now seen CCTV footage (see pictures this and next page) of his entry and exit to the hospital and can confirm that the man certainly Continued on page 2
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