July 20, 2009, - 6:06 pm
Dying Major City’s Non-Joke Joke of the Week: Detroit Police Tax-Funded Escort of Michael Jackson Stuffed Animals???!!!
By Debbie Schlussel
I swear I’m not making this up. It’s just more of the reality show called Detroit that’s all pure comedy and–unlike other reality shows–doesn’t need scripting to be entertaining . . . and sadly hilarious.
On Friday, four Detroit Police cruisers provided an escort to two hearses carrying stuff animals to a cemetery in tribute to Michael Jackson. Yup, Detroit isn’t just a dying major city with a ton of crime and a shortage of cops. It’s a dying major city with a police department that has zero common sense and a total lack of comprehension of the absurd.
Not only that, but the cemetery donated a huge plot–a plot which could have been donated to a real live human being in need–in which to bury the stuff animals. No joke. Watch the videos, and laugh your ass off. In the first one, you can hear the TV crew trying–and failing–to hold back laughter:
Detroit Police Provide Escort to
Stuffed Animals in Fake Michael Jackson Funeral
Sorry, we can’t try to prevent the people in the crack house next door from killing your son. We’re too busy escorting stuffed animals to a faux Michael Jackson funeral.
Detroit Police Department . . . we keep the streets safe for stuffed animals.
If Detroit is a dying major city, how about it just swallow itself up and give itself its own burial? Kind of like how we wish Hollywood and San Francisco would do.
californiascreaming on July 20, 2009 at 8:23 pm