Um... why am I hearing this?

[strredwolf]

As some of you know, a "professional" wrestler was found dead at his home in Georgia along with his family.  They're ruling it a murder-suicide, the wrestler hanging himself after dispatching his wife and son.

Okay, up front, I'm not a fan of the WWE.  To me, it's low-grade entertainment and channel-switching fodder.  I was one glad they lost the case of who owns "WWF" (now in the furry hands of the World Wildlife Fund).  They can keep to whatever channel they have made a deal with, as long as they don't go outside that boundary and I can easily change to something more intelligent... like Barney the Dinosaur.

What gets me is:

• The murders are in Georgia.  Why are they reporting them on the local newscast in Maryland as local news?  I mean, they're at least five states between me and Georgia.  Did you flunk geography with the same person that thinks "Las Vegas" is a state?
• Apparently alot of folk actually care about this, because the murders got more press than the usual police blotter and whatever was done at the next "wrestling match."  Note I quote that not only for the general disdain for the sport, but also for the fact that WWE basically canceled the "event" and made it a tribute for the wrestler... before all the facts were in.  Boneheads!
• It's being treated as regular news instead of "sports" or more correctly "entertainment."  Come on, can we stop being that deprived for any tidbit that's comming over the wire?  Maybe we can get back to semi-normal since Paris Hilton has been released back into the wild.  Too bad they didn't tag her...

Drew Curtis is right.  This is all becoming a load of fark.  Baaah!  Crabby ol' WolfSkunk....

Comments

[bibliophage.livejournal.com]

Frankly, I think the WWF (World Wrestling Federation) should have told the World Wildlife Fund to stuff it. (They actually retain the right to do that. They didn't turn over the name, they just put it in abeyance).

Noone is likely to get the two mixed up, because of context. You're unlikely to have someone thinking that the fat guy in spandex is going to go out and help two rare squirrels screw each other in a tree. Conversely, it's unlikely that a bear will jump up and hit Jesse Ventura with a chair.

(note, I'm not fond of wrestling as it's done today. In the 70's and early 80's, it was still choreographed, but it was fun to watch. Nowadays, it's so .. I don't know. Plasticized?)