watch it: “Michael Jackson alive?! Seen coming out of coroner's van!”

The video was produced by German television as an experiment to see how far and how fast it would spread online. I’m not sure how clever an experiment this is -- it sounds like an attempt to demonstrate that chocolate chip cookies are delicious. You know, like we already know the answer.

Of course, the flip side of this is that it makes us all ponder how easy it would have been for Michael Jackson to fake his death...