What Did They Expect?

Seriously.

Just a short post here about the Youtube phenomenon Thriller Prisoners being denied permission to perform at a local festival.

The next step was to see if the prisoners would be allowed to perform at Sinulog, a popular street-music festival scheduled in Cebu next Sunday, saying it would add "something new to the traditional Sinulog presentation".

But Cebu city's mayor, Tomas Osmena, remains unmoved by the funky zombie dancing of the inmates. "I will not allow it even if Michael Jackson joins them," Mr Osmena told the Philippine News Agency. "In jail, the inmates can dance all they want."

Gee, I can't imagine why the mayor wouldn't want them to perform...

Most of the inmates in the video are on remand awaiting trial for alleged crimes such as murder, rape and drug trafficking.

Oh that. Right.

(For the record, security precautions had been taken, such as cutting the number of performers to one hundred and holding the event in a stadium with lots of guards, but still. C'mon.)

Source: The Independent