Trial By Wikipedia
The Chris Benoit story was bizarre enough, but now the media is really reaching. Apparently someone logged on to Wikipedia hours before the events were revealed with an update about Benoit that said...
"However, 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 IP address of the person who made this entry was traced to Stamford, Connecticut, which is also the corporate headquarters of the WWE, and that started the conspiracy rumors about Benoit flying.
What the Heck, sure! Let's admit it. Wikipedia is a great source for reliable information. You don't have to have anything to post on there except access to a computer and at least one finger, but people wouldn't lie, would they?
In their rush to judgement, did Fox News or ABC bother to look at the other hot inside scoops this Wikipediot posted? What's Bill O'Reilly think about this guy replacing an entire page on the "African Wild Ass" page with the word "piss"? As a WWE insider, he certainly must have known what he was talking about when he filled out Stacy Keibler's page with "People want to #@% her in her lovely #$@ and whip her $^%@ til the dawn of day" or when he replaced Ron Artest's entire entry with a racial slur.
Yep. Clear the docket. It seems that Encyclopedia Brown has cracked another mystery. The way the media's treating this, CNN might break a story on new evidence gleaned from some misspelled graffiti in a Cracker Barrel bathroom on the Connecticut Turnpike.
If you believe everything on Wikipedia, then this fact, posted less than twelve hours later, might provide some clue to who the real culprit was. Chris Benoit's entry read at that point, and I quote...
"After defeating Guerrero whio is a poopy head and smells like poop and more poop mcpoop and he eventuallly ate more poop and more poop with poop sauce and poop yogurt, MVP claimed that he was the best man to hold the US title."
There you have it. As reliable as can be.
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One of the previous edits of wild African ass shows a picture of Barney the Purple Dinosaur instead of a wild African ass. Not as cool as replacing the whole thing by "piss", but pretty nice.
Man, don't play. You know Wikipedia kicks ass. Just because sometimes punks get on and change WWE "atheletes'" bios doesn't mean it's all suck. You just have to not be stupid to use it.
That "piss" thing reminds of me one time when I'd had a couple of beers and I replaced my nice chipper answering machine message with a slurred "suck". Unfortunately, I didn't remember I did it until some weeks later when I called it myself.
Doh! I meant to take that down...
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