According to CNN’s iReport, Astley’s body was found at the Angleterre Hotel in Berlin after an ambulance responded to an emergency call from his hotel room. Astley was found unconscious in his hotel bedroom and was unable to be resuscitated. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
Unlike previous fake celebrity deaths, the use of CNN’s iReport gives this a little more legitimacy up front, at least if you don’t know how iReport works. iReport is open to all submissions without pre-publication review: I could submit a story saying Rick Astley is dead at the hands of an advanced civilization of alien music lovers and it would be published until such time CNN pulled it it.
Rick Astley is not dead, Rick Astley has not died, Rick Astley was not attacked by aliens either.
Ah, it was safe. Well, so the rumor itself is false, so we don't have to worry. Also fun to see that the person was in Stavanger here in Norway. I should have been there and given him a real nut-kick, as a "thank you" for testing my anger management sometimes.
You moan about jokes about MJ after his death but find this ok?
I personally don't mind either of them but if I were PC enough to do I most likely would find faking death news of a very alive person worse than making some jokes about a dead person.
No it isn't, it wasn't even funny when it first emerged out of a hole somewhere, may be slightly amusing at first but I already hated the song because the local radio station always played it.
How can jokes about living people be worse than dead people, I don't understand
And the inocent joke thingy was meant to the rick-roll joke, not the death news
Well, they are tasteless, that's for sure, and a bad joke afterall. But still thinks it's worse joking about someone that recently passed away. But nevermind, let's just say that neither of the jokes are good
Yeah, I'll admit I have laughed pretty hard of some of them, specially the CSI one. But at same time I kind of feel bad because there was a lot of supporters, and he was the king of pop. All in all, a little too soon for jokes I think, at least when they started to come on same day as he died hehe..