Moonwalking with death

It’s an Old West movie cliché: One cowboy making another dance as he shoots at the others’ feet. It may not be as fictional as we think–at least in Idaho.

It was there that a man named John Ernest Cross is accused by authorities of making a man moonwalk at gunpoint. We don’t have to tell you that that is a crime punishable by death. Some say it was an AR-15 that he pointed at his friend, others say it was an air gun. Only a jury can decide. Luckily, we have the local newspaper to give us context:

Late singer Michael Jackson popularized the moonwalk dance move, although a slew of other entertainers — from Cab Calloway and Ronnie Hawkins to David Bowie and Dick Van Dyke — have been credited for using a variation of the move.