Blocked for me. Awaiting descriptions by the compulsively articulate.
Roid rage?
That was my first thought too, but killing both the wife and the kid somehow seems like it something more. Something less spontaneous.
2: apparently Benoit killed his wife and son, then himself.
I had the rr thought as well.
Awaiting descriptions by the compulsively articulate.
A WWE wrestler killed his wife and son, and then himself. Some of the early stuff has said no gun, and that he waited a day or two to hang himself afterwards in a weight room.
It said "wife and son were killed". Someone on the linked site says maybe the wife killed the son and then he killed the wife. nobody knows.
The link speculates that the deaths occured over several days, so Scooby Do will have to come up with another theory. Second guess, wifw having an affair, kill her. Remorse at killing mother of child, kill child. realization of murder of family, suicide.
Yeah, the DA says that the details are weird. Beyond the obvious level of weirdness, I mean.
I think we can all join together in an affirmation that Dick Cheney is not responsible for this crime.
I'm not sure I've ever heard of a mom kills kid, dad kills mom, dad kills self murder-suicide before. Not hard to believe though.
9: That's what D.C. would like you to believe, anyway.
WWE's editing of reality probably caused a psychotic break, it's difficult enough to make sense of reality as it arrives without having been tweaked.
?
Pretty hard to believe, I'd say. There's just not that many people on the edge of murder that you'd expect two to be married to each other -- killing the spouse who just killed your kid is a very low-odds response. Possible, maybe, but not likely.
Breaking: "cheney made me do it" sez Benoit note.
They'll regret going into full on "In Memory of ..." will-be-missed soft-focus retrospective mode so fast if it turns out he murdered his wife and child and then offed himself.
The weirdest thing about the story to me seemed to be the delay in the killings. One one day, the other the next day. I don't think that's usual in murder-suicides.
I'd guess he killed the wife for some typical domestic-dispute reason (from affairs real or imagined to undercooked eggs and all points between); then tried to carry on as if everything was normal, but wound up killing the son when he found out his mom was dead and freaked; then killed himself.
I don't know. This is seriously fucked-up. I used to be a Benoit fan, too.
There's just not that many people on the edge of murder
60% of junior-high girls molest their dogs and 90% of people are on the edge of murder. What kind of bubble do you live in, LB?
This is just grasping for an explanation of the inexplicable, but I can't help wondering if the sort of persistent head trauma described in this article might have played a role here.
14 -- It sounded from the article like they were already regretting that.
Hey, is this the thread where everyone is glamming the fuck out?
Did I read that he canceled a gig to go do this? Can roid rage be premeditated?
What a terrible tragedy.
Oooh, look over there, Paris Hilton is picking her teeth! I wonder if she still wants us to pay attention to the wars in Iraq and Afganistan...
I have a firm belief that Paris is just crafting her capacity to grab and hold media attention for the day when she uses it to change the world -- Paris Hilton will get us out of Iraq.
And she's a surprisingly good actress.
Paris Hilton can pump up your G-spot to the size of a quarter using nothing but her mind.
Latest thing from the AP says Benoit strangled the wife, smothered the son, then hung himself. Christ.
I'd guess that 7 is correct, except that the decision to kill his son likely followed directly from the decision to kill himself.
Wrestlers spend a huge amount of time on the road; my impression is that infidelity and resulting domestic violence is pretty common. It brings to mind the rash of murders at Fort Bragg (the linked article says there was no unifying thread, but a high school friend of mine who was stationed there at the time says most of the murders were prompted by the discovery of affairs).
My intended "Crippler Crossface" joke suddenly seems a lot more tasteless.
Snarkout, if it's any consolation, you're the second person to joke about making that joke with me today.
I have a firm belief that Paris is just crafting her capacity to grab and hold media attention for the day when she uses it to change the world -- Paris Hilton will get us out of Iraq.
Once that G-spot operation wears off, I'm sure.
I'd vote for her over Britney, but President Lohan would be my 1st choice. How many redheaded presidents have we had?
Jefferson at least; I haven't got any others off the top of my head.
[LB stomps around her office yelling at the gray-haired presidents, "Get off my head! Off!"]
Washington, Jefferson, Van Buren, Jackson, Grant, Coolidge, and Eisenhower.
But how many of those other than Coolidge went around without any underwear, Apo?
33: Sadly, www.commandoandproud.com has yet to be registered.
George Washington was not a redhead.
He had wooden teeth tho. And much has been written of his predilection for bears.
I heard he had, like, thirty goddamn dicks.
But imagine how much fun it would be to announce them at events: "Ladies and Gentlemen, President Firecrotch!"
Bonus points if you have an Eton accent, of course.
George Washington was not a redhead.
On what do you base this assertion, Brock?
WaPo: "For the first time, it's possible to see what the teenage Washington probably looked like, and though at this stage he is nude and hairless, he will be fully realized in October 2006 when he goes on display at Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens. Young George will be a life-size figure with auburn hair and gray-blue eyes, perhaps propping his foot on a stump in a manly fashion as he scans the horizon."
He had red hair, but then he tried to mop his brow with a baby wipe and it froze and tore his hair off.
I wish Lindsey Lohan wouldn't dye her hair that awful blonde.
39: gut instinct. He just doesn't strike me as the redheaded type.
So how many pullups could Washington do, BL?
One thing about President Lohan, she wouldn't be Cheney's puppet.
"Hey, Secret Service dudes? Can you keep that creepy old man away from me?"
In fact, I think the Constitution should be amended so that the President has to be *under* 35, female, and teh hottt.
Grant was about as brunette as they come. Yet again, apo is playing fast and loose with the facts.
Isn't it a bit suspect to claim all the bald ones as redheads? Has anyone actually seen a picture of Ike with hair?
It's well known that Ike's nickname in the Army was "Firecrotch."
Didn't test well with the campaign folks, though, so they went with "Ike."
I don't question that the man had hair for a year or two of his life, only that it was red. I hereby question anew: those pics don't show any copper heads.
Do you know who else had red hair? Yul Brynner.
Hey, not my fault there was no color photography when Ike was a kid.
Google seems to be in pretty wide agreement, text.
Time Magazine averrs "sandy blond".
Believe who you must.
To return this thread to its grisly start: notes from the sheriff dept's press conference.
Apparently he killed himself using exercise equipment.
That's clever, actually. Never would have thought of that.