Crockerinho

Wrestling Moderator

In what might blow away any past awards for sheer absurdity within wrestling; the aftermath of the sketch on Sunday night's Armageddon PPV, in which a "despondent" Tim White was depicted at his Friendly Tap bar outside of Providence, RI, downing shots and beers (dealing with the pain of his legitimate injuries suffered at a previous Hell In The Cell match) then taking a rifle and off screen, firing the gun, with an implied suicide, resulted in the following...in real-life.

According to the webmaster of the FriendlyTap.com website for Tim White's bar, this skit blew up to the extent that:


1) Local Cumberland, CT police got an estimated 1,000 phone calls about the "suicide" depicted on the PPV.

2) The door of White's Friendly Tap bar was pried off the hinges by local police and fire, causing $3,000 in damages.

3) White himself has to give a deposition regarding the incident to local police, who were upset about not having been clued in ahead of time to the sketch.

4) The e-mail address of the bar recived 4,000 e-mails of condolence and comment.

This reaction may rank up there with the classic September 1, 1990 angle in which Jerry Lawler was run over by an automobile driven by Eddie Gilbert on the live WMC Memphis TV show; causing Memphis police to storm the studio looking for Gilbert.

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The Phantom

Like they'd show a real life suicide on PPV!?

People need their heads checked.

Zar

Wow...so there goes trying to downplay the stereotypical wrestling fan

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

lol what a bunch of idiots.

Necro

lmao

I got over it quickly myself. Within about 5 seconds.

It was stupid as hell though

barfly467

Wow, i can't beleive there are that many stupid fans out there.

Randy Orton

WC's Resident Alchoholic

I know. i didnt even think twice about it. Once it was over it was over and I completely forgot about it.

Mr. Kennedy

WWE had to realize that nothing good would come from that angle, they should just have Tim White come on the air and say he tried to shoot himself but missed because he was drunk and then passed out.

Yeah that's pretty lame, but at least then they would be able to say he didn't commit suicide and try to forget the whole situation happened. Although I think everyone realized almost immediatley that this incident will go into the WrestleCrap HOF.

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Disco Raheem

"It's still real to me dammit!" ='(

Matt S.

Knowing WWE writing just now, who's betting on the image of Tim White appearing on somebody's pizza in a few weeks time?

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