  Zaritsky & Lin have claimed detection of an intervening population of stars
toward the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) which, they believe, could account for
a substantial fraction of the observed microlensing events. I show that the
observed time scales of these events imply that if such an intervening
population were composed of ordinary stars that gave rise to a significant
fraction of the microlensing events, then it could not be associated with the
LMC. I present two independent statistical arguments which together essentially
rule out such a chance alignment of unassociated structures. On the other hand,
if the intervening structure is associated with the LMC, I show that of order
half the mass in this structure is in substellar objects, which would make it
unlike any known stellar population.
