Michael Jackson in theme-park talks with Lucky, the Lucky Charms leprechaun

There's something slightly cruel in the way the press seize on all of Michael Jackson's crazy schemes and report them as if they're serious proposals, costed and supported by a full business plan and customer projections.

His latest idea, it seems, is to open a leprechaun-based theme park in Ireland. Apparently, "businessmen" are already queueing up to fund the 500 Million Euro costs of the park - costs arrived at, we'd imagine, by finding out how much it costs to build a full-size theme park and dividing by however many times smaller than a man a leprechaun is.

Still, it'd be nice to see a theme-park where the signs say "You must be smaller than this to ride..."

Jackson's Katrina benefit is now a year overdue; his 9/11 benefit single, What More Can I Give, is five years late.

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