Jacko Caught Impersonating Arab Woman

(Dubai) This report is just too odd not to pass along.

From KhaleejTimes.com:

When she went to the ladies washroom in the Egyptian Court of Ibn Battuta Mall at 9.30 last night, 37-year old Latifa M. never imagined that she would come face to face with pop icon Michael Jackson, who walked in dressed in a T-shirt and trousers, with his head covered with the Emirati women's traditional head scarf Sheila.

The Tunisian, who is a teacher in a private school in Dubai, screamed in shock and ran out of the ladies room when she realised that the woman-like person was a man. She went back in to photograph the pop singer with her mobile phone, while he was busy fixing his make up.

This time it was the turn of Michael Jackson who ran after the Ajman-based teacher, to retrieve the pictures. The scene attracted the security of the mall, who tried to take the phone from Latifa, but she refused and asked for compensation, while the two women accompanying Jackson tried to convince her to sit in private and settle the issue.

Latifa wanted to be paid for the pictures but Jackson refused. Police got involved and informed her that UAE laws do not entitle her to any financial gain from the situation. Consequently, she gave up her mobile phone but only after erasing the pictures out of fear that she might be penalized.

Without a leash, Jackson is liable to do anything. Why he would dress up as an Arab woman is beyond me.