Jackson Baby-Dangling Exploits Spawn Video Game

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Tue December 24, 2002 11:00 AM ET

BERLIN (Reuters) - Michael Jackson's baby-dangling exploits have spawned a new video game in which the player has to catch babies in a basket as a cartoon version of the popstar hurls them from a rooftop.

At the end of the game, called "Michael Jackson Baby Drop," players receive a score and a supposed evaluation of their parenting skills.

Jackson startled German fans last month when he dangled his baby outside his fourth-floor hotel window in Berlin, a moment captured on film and widely broadcast.

He held his baby, whose head was covered by a towel, over a balcony with one arm to horrified gasps from the crowd of fans on the street below.

The singer apologized, saying he had been caught up in the emotion of the moment.

In the game by www.madblast.com the cartoon Jackson also throws spiders from the rooftop, which the player has to dodge.

The popstar, who keeps tarantulas at his Neverland Valley ranch in California, was recently bitten by a spider on the foot.

No spokesman for the singer could be reached for comment.

-- Anonymous, December 24, 2002


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