One of the many, many events I missed during Dragon*Con ’09 was an attempt to break the Guinness world record for the most people doing the dance from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video. I had both practice sessions and the record-breaking attempt marked on my calendar, and I made it to none of them. I consoled myself by thinking that when the results came back — and with 903 participants, surely they’d win! — I’d write about the achievement. I didn’t know that a group of 13,597 dancers had just tried to break the record in Mexico, and I learned yesterday that the record now lies with them.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Inside Access blog noted that the Dragon*Con organizers had contacted a lawyer because the Mexico team hadn’t followed the rules. Wondering just what was up with that, I e-mailed organizer Lauren Leasure, and early this morning, I got a response that was considerably perkier than what I’d expect from someone who’d just come out on the wrong side of an adjudicating panel. Find out what she said after the jump.