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BackLash

Brutus Beefcake Causes Anthrax Scare
Posted By Ashish on 02.13.04

What is this former WWF star up to?

Ed "Brutus the Barber Beefcake" Leslie caused an anthrax scare last night in Boston. Leslie had been working as a fare collector at a subway and left a bag of cocaine unattended. The first assumption by those who found it was that the powder was anthrax. Leslie later admitted that the powder was cocaine and that it was his.

IRALB

Anthrax? Are you fucking kidding me, my God you people live in fear.

BackLash

Yeah I know, it's terrible.

AudioSavior

HAHAHAHA, he is working as a Subway fare collector? Looks like he will be looking for a new job once he gets out of jail.

Danny Diamond

Founder/Admin

I live in Boston and work within a two minute walk from Downtown Crossing. I never use the T though. Damn that would have been interesting seeing him there.

Although, I gotta say. I would NEVER think that Brutus the Barber would be working at a T station in Boston.

Pathetic.


here is the article that appeared in todays newspaper. Also, please note..................this barely hit the radar in Boston and is being looked at as a loser with drugs story around here. It was hardly a Anthrax Scare as the media would like you to believe.

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Body slam: T scare lands ex-grappler in rehab
By Laurel J. Sweet
Friday, February 13, 2004

He was the pec-perfect model for a toy action figure and a cartoon character puzzle, but it's former pro wrestling giant Brutus ``The Barber'' Beefcake who's gone to pieces.

Beefcake - these days Edward Leslie, 46, of Winchester - voluntarily checked into a treatment program Monday, according to a source, after cocaine he admitted was his created an anthrax scare at the MBTA's Downtown Crossing subway station.

Sources said the man who acquired his stage name for hacking off the hair of his enemies in the ring had been working there part time as a fare collector - a job that pays $25,000 a year.

``He was a big star for the World Wrestling (Federation),'' Buck Woodward, a columnist for the online magazine Pro Wrestling Insider, said yesterday of Leslie.

``During the '80s wrestling boom he became popular because he was very good friends with Hulk Hogan.''

But behind the colossal bronzed chest and TV set of his own wrestling talk show, ``The Barber Shop,'' Leslie's life was headed for the ropes. In 1990, his face was reconstructed with plates and bolts after a freak parasailing accident. Last April, the IRS slammed him with a lien for $57,425, according to records.

The MBTA confirmed yesterday they have an employee named Edward Leslie, but would not say if he was the one they suspended without pay after cocaine turned up Sunday afternoon on the counter of a Downtown Crossing fare booth, prompting an emergency hazmat response.

``Right now it's only an internal disciplinary matter,'' said MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo. ``He has been cooperative with police.''

Although the subway station was evacuated, MBTA Deputy Police Chief Thomas McCarthy said the fare collector - who he also would not identify - spared commuters further inconvenience by coming clean and dispelling terrorism fears.

Leslie's wife, Barbara, did not return a call yesterday.

Leslie was easily earning ``six figures'' in his heyday, said Woodward, noting that such falls from fame in the world of wrestling ``have happened before. There are guys who wasted their money, just like a rock star.''

Bouchie

I guess wrestlers from the 80's never got paid as well as the current ones do. He must be flat broke. Otherwise why would he be working in a subway? Probably used all his money to buy cocaine.

Boz

I live in the Boston area.. and if I saw a bag of coke lying in a subway car, I would never even think about anthrax. People are so easily scared it's pathetic. Let's see... you see a bag of coke... hmm maybe inside it is some cocaine. L4m0rz

Miakal

How does a Subway attendant afford a bag of Cocaine?

AudioSavior

Well he was only working part time so I am guessing he was doing it as a second job to support his habbit?

Boz

Cocaine's not THAT expensive... if you have a job you could maintain a habit with it, but not a very good or lucrative life.