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Thursday, June 28th, 2007For days I’ve been reading everything I’ve come across regarding the apparent murder-suicide of the Chris Benoit family. All of the evidence is pointing to the assumption that he snapped and killed his family over the course of a weekend.
Maybe I read too much crime fiction. Maybe I watch Lenny Briscoe more than I should, but I have this nagging gut feeling about this situation that things aren’t exactly as they appear.
Let me start out by saying I was never a fan of Chris Benoit. He wasn’t a wrestler that I particularly enjoyed watching; none of this generation of wrestlers really are. My instincts on this do not stem from the fact that I want him to be innocent of this. My instincts are my gut reactions based on the facts of the crime.
It’s being said that he flew home on Friday for a “family emergency.” He claimed his wife and child were sick from food poisoning and he had to be home with them. When he got there, he strangled his wife. More than 24 hours later, he suffocated his son. Another 24 plus hours later, he hung himself.
He’d have to have gone absolutely batshit insane to have done this. How many people that crazy have you heard of that plan these elaborate crimes, and then carry them out? If he truly went crazy, wouldn’t he have done it all Friday night, in the heat of passion? How could someone in the mental state that he’d have to have been in have carried out this deliberate and well thought out scenario?
Think about it for a moment. Then add something else to the mix. Something more sinister. I’m gonna give you a scenario.
Chris Benoit pissed someone off. I mean, really pissed someone off. He pissed someone off to the point, that this person showed up at Benoit’s house Friday night, and called him from his wife Nancy’s phone. Maybe he threatened Benoit’s family, and forced him to fly back home and make up an excuse about the family being sick.
Maybe this person or persons killed the Benoit family and made it look like a murder-suicide. It’s happened before.
Benoit had some issues with drugs. Maybe he was gonna go public on his supplier. Maybe he could have implicated someone much bigger, more powerful. Professional wrestling has been at the center of drug scandals for years.
It’s a feasible theory, don’t you think?
Or maybe what we’re getting is true, and Chris Benoit truly went off the deep end.
Pro Wrestler Snaps
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007Although nothing official has been released yet, authorities are saying that Chris Benoit killed his wife and kid over the weekend, and then himself on Monday.
And he seemed like one of the normal ones.
Benoit’s Death Part Of A Double Murder-Suicide
According to lead investigator Lt. Tommy Pope, of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department, in Fayetteville, Ga., the deaths of WWE Superstar Chris Benoit, wife Nancy and son Daniel were the result of a double murder-suicide, WWE.com has learned.
Benoit failed to appear both at Saturday’s live event in Beaumont, Tx., and WWE’s Vengeance: Night of Champions in Houston Sunday night, after informing WWE of a family emergency. Several curious text messages sent by Benoit early Sunday morning prompted concerned friends to alert Richard Hering, VP of Government Relations for WWE, Inc. Hering, in turn, spoke with Fayette County sheriffs Monday, and requested that they respond to the Benoit residence to check on him and his family.
Authorities representing the Sheriff’s Department initially had a difficult time entering Benoit’s new Fayetteville home Monday afternoon, which had been guarded by two large German Shepherds roaming freely around the property. Once authorities entered the residence, they quickly located the bodies of Benoit, Nancy and Daniel. WWE was notified of the discovery at approximately 4 p.m.
At 10 p.m. Monday night, Lt. Pope held a press conference in conjunction with Scott Ballard, the district attorney for Fayette County. The press conference officially ruled authorities’ findings as a double murder-suicide from within the home.
WAGA, a FOX-owned and operated television station in Atlanta, reported that investigators believe Benoit killed his wife and 7-year-old son over the weekend, then himself on Monday.
The three bodies have been received by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab, in Decatur, Ga., where autopsies will be performed Tuesday morning. Toxicology reports will not become available for at least two weeks.
WWE.com has further information relating to both the investigation and the cause of death, but the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department has requested that WWE.com not release any additional details at this time.
Another Update on Pants-Gate
Thursday, June 14th, 2007I recently found this:
Anyone wishing to contact Roy Pearson directly to express their opinion of his actions may do at:
Pearson, Roy L Jr
3012 Pineview Ct NE
Washington, DC 20018-1617Tel: (202) 269-1191
Email: roypearsonjr@verizon.net
Enjoy.
I would also like to announce that he is the most recent winner of our Giant Douchenozzle Award! I urge everyone to contact him to congratulate him.
(If, by chance, you don’t know who this waste of skin is read Rob’s first post about him here and my follow up here)
‘Lost’ Won’t end like ‘The Sopranos’
Thursday, June 14th, 2007‘Lost’ Producers: We Won’t End Like ‘Sopranos’
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) — Three days after the controversial finale of “The Sopranos,” the two creators of “Lost” on Wednesday promised that their hit ABC drama would not conclude in similarly murky fashion.
“We will not be ending with a blackout,” said Carlton Cuse, referring to the black screen that delivered an unresolved ending to HBO’s mob drama.
Good for ‘Lost’. End it however you want to. It’s your show, it’s your right to tell the story in the fashion you deem necessary. I’ve never watched ‘Lost’ so I’m not going to criticize it here.
Who I am going to criticize are the folks who are running around all kinds of pissed off by the ending to ‘The Sopranos.’
What do you consider unresolved? They actually resolved quite a bit in the finale. Tony went to see Junior. Meadow and AJ made plans for their future. Silvio’s brain dead. Phil Leotardo got his head run over by the tire of his minivan. Seems pretty wrapped up to me.
I think you’re all bent out of shape because the final scene gave us what will be forever known as the infamous blackout. The blackout occurred while Tony was having dinner with his family. What were you expecting to happen? Some crazy mob soldier running in with guns blazing? Tony’s enemies had already been taken care of.
Remember a few episodes back, where Bobby beat up Tony? Remember the conversation they had about death? Bobby explained to Tony that you don’t see it coming, that you don’t hear a sound. Everything just suddenly goes black and that’s the end.
And that’s what happened. Our lives as an audience went to black. The Soprano family went on, and we were eliminated. Kind of a cool ending, huh? I don’t know for sure if that’s what creator David Chase intended by it, but it’s one good way of looking at it. Maybe those strange, mysterious people in the restaurant who looked like they were casing the family were really casing us.
The people who are complaining are the ones who need EVERYTHING explained to them. I bet they were expecting a montage at the end, like in ‘Animal House’ that let them know exactly what happens to the characters in the future.
You all need to give David Chase some credit. He did that show how he wanted to do it. He didn’t cave in to the whole Hollywood Ending garbage that we see in just about every show and film.
This was a show that didn’t need a period to end it. This is a show that catered to the imagination, and left it doing just that.
That’s all I have to say about it.
Pants-Gate Update
Wednesday, June 13th, 2007ATTENTION! ATTENTION!
The man pictured below is a massive fuckstain.
If you see this man please to not attempt to engage him in conversation as he is considered to be a massive fuckstain and extremely stupid.
Just kick him in the nuts.
Rob posted earlier about this and I just had to follow up.
“Judge” Roy L. Person Jr. broke down in court yesterday. Over a pair of pants. I’m going to actually hand this over to the Washington post for a moment. I’ve bolded the more amusing bits.
Before trial began yesterday in the case of the D.C. judge who sued his neighborhood dry cleaners after they lost his pants, the most extraordinary fact was Roy Pearson’s demand for $65 million in damages.
That was before Pearson, an administrative law judge, broke down while testifying about the emotional pain of having the cleaners give him the wrong pants. It was before an 89-year-old woman in a wheelchair told of being chased out of the cleaners by an angry owner. And it was before she compared the owners of Custom Cleaners in open court to Nazis.
“I knew it: It’s all my fault,” said the reporter from German television who was sitting next to me.
The global import of Pearson v. Custom Cleaners was evident from the start. The courtroom was packed with members of the Korean Dry Cleaners Association and reporters from print and broadcast outlets in at least five countries. The guy from the tort reform lobby handed out bright green buttons protesting the $65 million “pantsuit.” The gent from Fox TV sported neon-color paisley pants.
And Pearson, who by his account has spent more than 1,400 hours preparing his case, arrived in a black pinstripe suit. I hope he won’t sue me if I mention that the pants could have used a pressing.
“Never before in recorded history have a group of defendants engaged in such misleading and unfair business practices,” Pearson said in his opening statement. You don’t get a lot of firsts in recorded history in D.C. Superior Court, though I should add that Marion Barry was in the building for his day in traffic court, and the pants suit easily outdrew the ex-mayor-for-life.
The “willful and malicious conduct” Pearson described consisted of this: In 2005, Pearson was starting his new job as a judge and therefore needed to start wearing suits again after a couple of years of unemployment. He brought five suits in for alterations because he’d put on 20 pounds and needed to have the pants let out. Four suits came back fine. One came back without the pants.
Pearson says the Chung family — Korean immigrants who came here from the charcoal factories of Seoul in 1992 and now own three cleaners, including the one a short walk from Pearson’s place in the Fort Lincoln section of Northeast — had no intention of living up to the sign in their shop that said “Satisfaction Guaranteed.” Therefore, Pearson said, he had no choice but to take on “the awesome responsibility” of suing the Chungs on behalf of every resident of the District of Columbia.
Judge Judith Bartnoff went to remarkable lengths to try to keep Pearson moving along while disabusing him of the notion that he represented either the tens of thousands of people who have used Custom Cleaners or the half million people in Washington who might theoretically be at risk of being dissatisfied with the shop’s service.
From the start, Pearson kept referring to himself as “we,” as if he were representing everyone in town. Bartnoff was having none of it: “Mr. Pearson, you are not a ‘we.’ You are an ‘I.’ “
Defense lawyer Christopher Manning depicted Pearson as a bitter, wildly litigious man who emerged from a recent divorce with financial difficulties and who held a deep grudge against the Chungs stemming from a previous run-in. Back in 2002, after the cleaners lost another pair of his pants, Pearson was compensated with a check for $150. The Chungs then tried to ban him from their shop, but Pearson implored them to let him come back because Custom was the only cleaners within walking distance of his home, and he doesn’t have a car.
Pearson presented a series of witnesses who told of unhappy experiences at Custom. Their satisfaction, they said, was hardly guaranteed. But every one of Pearson’s witnesses told the defense that in fact, they would have been entirely satisfied if they had been given credit for free cleaning or compensation in the amount of the value of their damaged or lost garment. Most of the witnesses said they’d generally had good experiences at Custom, and not one of Pearson’s witnesses said anything about deserving millions of dollars.
Witnesses depicted Soo Chung, the mom in the Mom and Pop operation, as someone who was pleasant and professional — until a dispute arose, at which point she told several of the customers that it was they who had brought in damaged goods, not the shop that had caused any problem with an article of clothing.
Grace Hewell, a retired congressional staffer, said Jin Chung, Soo’s husband, “chased me out of the store” when she complained that her suit pants “looked like they had been washed” and no longer fit properly. “At 89, I’m not ready to be chased,” she said. “But I was in World War II as a WAC, so I think I can take care of myself. Having lived in Germany and knowing the people who were victims of the Nazis, I thought he was going to beat me up. I thought of what Hitler had done to thousands of Jews.”
After questioning eight witnesses, Pearson spent two hours telling his own story, but as he came to the part about when Soo Chung finally told him she had found the missing pants, the tale of the $10.50 alteration that went awry proved to be too much.
“These are not my pants,” Pearson recalled telling Chung when she handed him a pair of gray pants with cuffs. “I have in my adult life, with one exception, never worn pants with cuffs.”
“And she said, ‘These are your pants.’ ”
Pearson paused. He struggled to breathe deeply. He could not continue. Pearson blurted a request for a break, stood up, turned around and walked out of the courtroom, tears dripping from his full and reddened eyes.
When he returned, he called that moment when Chung offered him the wrong pants “a Twilight Zone experience,” and again, he welled up and had to halt the proceedings. Pearson wanted to submit the remainder of his testimony in writing, but Judge Bartnoff wouldn’t hear of it.
The trial is expected to end today. Pearson has reduced his claim to $54 million. But he told the judge that he also wants to be awarded attorney’s fees, even though he represents himself. He would like to be paid at a rate of between $390 and $425 an hour.
Earlier in the day, Pearson called his 30-year-old son as a witness. The son testified that he was surprised that his father had filed this suit. “I know you don’t like litigation at all,” he said.
Boy, that is a lot of bold text but since the bolded bits are so damn funny I couldn’t help myself.
Who does this cockholster think he is pretending to represent all of D.C.? Hell if he wants to represent them all let him. It should just mean that if he wins he should have to split it evenly will every god damned resident.
Oh look, here is the record of his divorce. It is a fun read I’ll tell ya. The one bit that stood out for me is:
The trial court found that husband was substantially responsible for “excessive driving
up” of the legal costs by “threatening both wife and her lawyer with disbarment [sic],” and
creating unnecessary litigation. Consequently, it awarded wife $12,000 in legal fees to be paid
by husband.
Looks like he has been an unreasonable fuckstick for a while now. Hey junior, being a “judge” does not entitle you to abuse the system.
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