Chris Benoit Wikipedia Fiasco

So the Chris Benoit events keep getting more weird. Check this link from FoxNews:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287194,00.html

If you haven’t heard, apparently someone from Stamford, Connecticut edited Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry early Monday morning with the phrase:

“Chris Benoit was replaced by [Johnny Nitro] for the ECW Championship match at Vengeance, as Benoit was not there due to personal issues, stemming from the death of his wife Nancy.”

The post was made at 12:01am EDT, but the bodies weren’t found until Monday afternoon.

This story has been reported by the national media all day today, but have you seen the resolution to it all?

Apparently a kid from UConn, who regularly defaces Wiki articles, just got “lucky”:

It is one of those things that just turned into a bizarre coincidence. That night I found out that what I posted, ended up actually happening, a 1 in 10,000 chance of happening, or so I thought. I was beyond wrong for posting wrongful information, and I am sorry to everyone for this. I just want everyone to know it was stupid of me, and I will never do anything like this again. I just posted something that was at that time a piece of wrong unsourced information that is typical on wikipedia, as it is done all the time.

Also, I’d like to apologize for my other wiki “updates” on other pages as they were immature and dumb, but I know I’m not the only one who has done this, but nonetheless I will never post anything like that again as I have learned from this.

http://spring.newsvine.com/_news/2007/06/29/…suicide-before-police

Bizarre. Authorities have seized his computer and other materials has part of the investigation.

Mindless Spam

Since I really don’t have much to write about today, I’ll go ahead and take this time to tell you all that the MSB_FTW, a fantastic message board of 60 people or so, which has surpassed the 500,000 post mark recently (in just over a year), has just opened registrations.  So sign up.  Tell them that VUTB sent you.

http://www.s15.invisionfree.com/msb_ftw

ZOMG! Chris Benoit Dead!

So it seems I am a little behind the times. Being away from the computer since Saturday, I haven’t been able to blog about Chris Benoit’s apparent murder of his wife and child and his subsequent suicide.

I don’t know how to feel. I was off the computer completely and away from TV almost 100% since Saturday, so the first I heard of this was during RAW. They weren’t really saying much as to what happened (I tuned in during Chavo’s statement), so I went online and started looking at the Atlanta papers and TV stations web sites. By that time they were already calling it a murder suicide. I was aghast.

I really don’t have anything more to say about it than that. If you need actual details, here are some links:

http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/detailedbenoittimeline
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/27/wrestler/index.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070627/ts_alt_afp/wrestlingcanusawwebenoit_070627020145

Now I know people are going to talk about what WWE is going to do about the Vince McMahon angle I blogged about a few weeks ago. To this question I’ll repost my thoughts from the Wrestling Large message board:

No way should this storyline be canceled. They should plug along and go on like Benoit never died. He wasn’t a part of the angle, so it doesn’t mess the angle up at all.

The man died. His wife died. His kid died. People die every day. People died the day McMahon’s character was written off. I’m sure some kid in Iraq was blown up in a real vehicle and really died the same day. People died every day that they replayed the explosion over and over again.

WWE is a TV show. It’s not real. Therefore there’s absolutely nothing wrong with killing characters in its storylines.

Continue on as planned.

Girl Stalked via Cell Phone

http://www.thenewstribune.com/front/topphoto/story/91460.html

Have you heard about this? Three families from the Seattle area are being stalked via their cell phones. Someone has hacked their cell phones and can use them to record conversations, and can even watch what they’re doing via the phones’ camera.

For four months, the Kuykendalls, the Prices and the McKays say, they’ve been harassed and threatened by mysterious cell phone stalkers who track their every move and occasionally lurk by their homes late at night, screaming and banging on walls.

Police can’t seem to stop them. The late-night visitors vanish before officers arrive. The families say investigators have a hard time believing the stalkers can control cell phones without touching them and suspect an elaborate hoax. Complaints to their phone companies do no good – the families say they’ve been told what the stalkers are doing is impossible.

And the things that they’ve done don’t stop there. Read the article to find out more.

Man, kids are messed up. Either there are kids out there really fucking with this girl’s mind for whatever reason, or the girl has set up one elaborate hoax.

“Why would I do that?” Courtney said. “Why would I do that to people I care about? Why would I harass my own family?”

The Top 5 Reasons Geeks Make Good Fathers

April sent this to me today. It was very sweet and cool.

Top Five Reasons Geeks Make Good Fathers

1. LEGOS. The Geek is really more of a Man-Child than an adult. In their minds, they are still 10. They freakin’ still love to play with their Legos, and have never grown up.

2. VIDEO GAMES. Due to the whole Man-Child thing as stated in #1, the Geek loves video games. And he’s good at them too. Geeks are the hit of all the kids’ friends because not only can he talk video games, he plays them too. If the kids get “stuck” while playing their Gameboys and bring it to me for assistance, all I can do is feebly hold it and say ” Mommy doesn’t know how to play this.” Daddy, however, can beat the game.

3. MATH. A huge plus here. No matter how old they get, geeks can still help with the math homework. My ability to be of assistance is going to last another few years before *I* end up throwing the math homework across the room in disgust.

4. SMART KIDS. Smart Geeks make smart children. Although for the most part, it’s great to have really intelligent children, when your just turned two year old is using the word PREPOSTEROUS correctly, it makes for some difficult times as they get older. I literally spend a large part of my time scheming to stay one step ahead of my oldest child.

5. UP ON TECHNOLOGY. The beautiful thing about having a Geek for a parent is that you aren’t wondering what your children are doing online. You *KNOW* what they are doing online and you can limit it if necessary.

IU Football Head Coach Terry Hoeppner Dies

http://wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=6678283

IU Football Head Coach Terry Heoppner died today after complications with a brain tumor that he had been battling for over 18 months.

Coach Hep came into IU and took a struggling program that nobody cared about and took it by its ear and was taking it down the path of respectability.  “Defend The Rock” was his battle cry, but after two brain operations,  cancer finally overtook him.

Hep never seemingly let it get the best of him, though.  When all of his hair fell out after his first bout of chemotherapy, Coach was never seen without his IU cap, telling people that his hair was “under construction.”

So now the responsibility of defending the rock falls on former Ball State head coach Bill Lynch.  Let’s hope that he fares better down in Bloomington than he did in Muncie.

He’s definitely got a big role to fill.

Popular

My blog has been on fire the past two days.  I wondered why, until I saw that it is the SECOND result on Google for “Vince Dead”.  So, if you’re here looking for Vince info, welcome.  Vince isn’t dead.  The explosion was just a work – or a storyline/angle.  Vince is still in charge of the E. 

That said, I’ve read on the net that this is supposed to extend on through the summer, which is fine with me.  The investigation is supposed to release a bit of information every week on the E’s shows. 

I’m excited to see where they take this, but I’m afraid that giving someone the label “McMahon killer” will be death to their character (see:  Rikishi running over Stone Cold).  So I’m perfectly fine if they NEVER actually revel who it was.

New Job!

So I finally got the official word: I’m the newest employee of WNDE 1260AM, a local sports radio station.  I’ve wanted to work for this place since I was in high school, so I’m definitely pumped about that.

I’ll be running board/babysitting/who knows what else.  Hopefully I’ll get some set hours today when I go in.  It’s a 45 minute drive.  Driving there during rush hour today will be interesting.   Apparently I’m going to be training on running board during a Reds game.  They better be playing someone interesting.

Ever since I got off from Tarjail today, I’ve been watching Food Network.  What’s wrong with me?

ZOMG! Vince Dead??

Vince McMahon was blown up on screen last night, and I’m loving it.  The McMahon character is synonymous with WWE, though, so he will be missed, but if you’re going to go, you might as well go out with a, pun intended, bang.

So obviously the next month will be filled with finding out who was responsible for this act.

But the best part of this is that the WWE finally had a “Wow” moment that it hasn’t had for a long, LONG time.  And I’m pumped because of it.

My Epitaph

I want this to be the epitaph on my tombstone when I die. Someone make sure it gets done:

“Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is.”
-Yoda, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

I think this sums up my feelings on death and absolute abhorrence toward funerals.

What would your epitaph read?