Catching up with the Gloved One

When Michael Jackson dangled his baby over a balcony in Berlin last month, the collective outrage could be heard far and wide. “Those kids ought to be taken from him,” some parents and some in the media cried. Well, now there’s a way for you to save Michael Jackson’s kids. Sort of.

Madblast.com, a comedy Web site owned by Los Angeles-based eUniverse Inc., has created the “Michael Jackson Baby Drop” game, in which you use your computer mouse to move a basket to catch falling infants as quickly as daddy Jackson tosses them down. The more babies you catch, the more time you get and the higher your score.

But watch out: Jackson also throws spiders, which cause the basket to overturn. In an earlier version of the game, Jackson dropped records to distract players, but the newer version was obviously updated to keep up with Jackson’s recent encounter with the arachnid kind.