Where were you when you found out Michael Jackson died?

[Imosae]

On the bbc site when i was sat in my bedroom

[GommeInc]

I was on a forum when I first heard he may have died at some weird time in the late evening/early morning, and I ran downstairs telling people because we were kinda interested in the up and coming tours. I think it was when they official announced he was dead that I found out, at 6 or 7 am :/

[Arron]

all my family came running in my room and said get downstairs quick and watch the news.. thought we'd won the lottery or something. i was excited running down, then the cameras were surrounding MJ's home. He was confirmed dead by the time I saw the breaking news report and that must've been about half 11 gone. then of course i signed into facebook and the newsfeed was flooded with "RIP MJ "

[The Don]

I was on the xbox and then my sister came in telling me he was in a coma, so i turned on the news channels then at around 11pm it got announced he had died and i was like omg. Then i remember in a party chat at around 11:10pm telling my friends and they didn't beleive me :S.

[Calvin]

In my room doing the moonwalk

[Sharon]

In the morning eating breakfast I had a text and was like

SO WHAT but my brother was like OMG RLY so i phoned her to ask but i still didnt believe it

still don't care to this very day

[Ajthedragon]

My paper shop.

[dbgtz]

I think I was getting ready for school and my mum told me. I didnt believe her until I saw the news.

[AlexOC]

It was like 11pm, and my mum came in my room woke me up and told me to put the news on cos she thought "somethnigs happened to michael jackson"

So i saw there watching it till about 3am, i went to bed after thye had already confirmed he was dead.

[HotelUser]

In a way I wish this had happened on another day but I'm glad it happened on this day too because I suppose it gives me a date to match with the other events that took place that day.

It was nearing the end of a school year and a class of mine went to a themepark nearby (there's big themeparks in Canada but where I live there's not. This was a pretty smallscale park. Wooden minute and a half roller coaster and all). I remember a thunder storm but it was incredibly warm out, and I had a good time with my friends. I consider this day the climax of my relationship with one friend in particular before our friendship dwindled out of existence. I don't particularly enjoy thinking about this day, but I don't necessarily want to forget about it at the same time.

Anyway to make a long story short with regards to Jackson's death, someone had briefly mentioned it on the bus ride home although of course nobody believed them. When the story presented itself to me on television I knew it was real.