Who here feels bad for Chris Benoit?

[ArunSenior04]

I know alot of people have heard about Canadian wrestler, Chris Benoit death. How many people would have thought that he would have killed his wife, and 7 yr old son as well?!?

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070625/chris_benoit_070626/20070626?hub=TopStories

[evan938]

theres a guy on another forum im on who made a good point

this guy killed a woman, and a 7 year old kid...WHY THE **** did he get a 3 hour TRIBUTE last night, or whenever it was...sickening

[ArunSenior04]

Well the murder/suicide thing wasnt confirmed until today. No one knew what happened yesterday, but it was on some poeple's minds I bet.

NTM it made Vince McMahon look like a damn fool.

[Cypher]

as sad as it is i don't see why this needs to be brought up at all. its no more special then a normal "double homicide suicide". as cruel as that may be the only reason its mentioned is because he was a "celebrity". get over it. there are worse things that happen in the country that never get a mention.

stop making it a big deal because he was "Somebody"

[toymachine566]

bah, i dont watch "pro" wrestling anyways. the only people i feel bad for are his wife and young child, that is sickeneing that anybody would harm such a young person.

[slyderdai]

Last night when i tuned in to watch raw ( not a big fan anymore just occasionally when nothing is on) i feld saddened. Today when i heard he strangled his wife and smothered his son in his sleep i didn't know what i felt. I don't care famous or not that is ****** up. I mean what kind of person kills a child? I have had several friends die in the last 5 years 3 were suicides. I don't see how life could be "that bad" Drug infleuenced or not its never that bad (I've been there and not once have i had even the slightest idea of suicide) Now I'm going on 4 years this november drug free. :D Beer thats a whole nother story i really like beer and i don't depend on it to escape just a few here and there. anyways back on topic benoit was a person with issues period. He just couldn't get help and now families are destroyed and 2 people lost their lives.

[Cypher]

my point is that EVERYONE wouldnt' know about it if it wasn't for him being famous. i never said it wasn't messed up

[Munky]

as sad as it is i don't see why this needs to be brought up at all. its no more special then a normal "double homicide suicide". as cruel as that may be the only reason its mentioned is because he was a "celebrity". get over it. there are worse things that happen in the country that never get a mention.

stop making it a big deal because he was "Somebody"

Damn right, Jimbo.

Celebrities already get too much attention as it is..like who married who, who drove drunk down which highway, etc.

No one gives a ****.

[Slapshotman7]

Damn right, Jimbo.

Celebrities already get too much attention as it is..like who married who, who drove drunk down which highway, etc.

No one gives a ****.

Thank you.

[slyderdai]

people don't watch the news like cnn and foxnews for news they watch it for entertainment. It's like this outta sight outta mind. nobody cares about anything these days. plain and simple. I would still feel the way i do if it was just random people a similar thing happened like this pretty close to where i live last summer and i felt the same way. I just "can't wait to see the random missing pregnant white girl of the week" (sarcasm)on nancy grace i hate our society no wonder every other country hates us............dammit

[CuddleBug1899]

Damn right, Jimbo.

Celebrities already get too much attention as it is..like who married who, who drove drunk down which highway, etc.

No one gives a ****.


Apparently people do give a **** or the gossip magazines and tv shows wouldn't make any money, and lately they have been booming (the Katie Holmes/Tom Cruise wedding, Paris Hilton, Angelina Jolie and her thousands of adopted children, need I say more?). I see your point though, and I agree with you that they definitely get too much attention, but it's always been like that and it'll always be like that. Gotta love it! :rolleyes:

I was pretty bummed when I saw Benoit was dead though (pre-knowing he did it himself). I used to watch wrestling when I was a kid, and then in college my boyfriend at the time was into it so I would watch by default. They are saying that they will have test results in a few weeks/days (depending on your source) to see what kind of drugs he was on. Most people are betting on steroids, which makes sense. It's just so stupid. But as far as suicide is concerned, I guess you'll never know how it truly feels until you've felt it, just like any depression or mental illness. But what I will never understand is the 'If I'm going down I'm taking you down with me' mentality. I remember when Phil Hartman was killed by his wife who then killed herself. It's a terrible thing when that stuff happens no matter who it is, people are just crazy, there's really nothing else to say... :(

[Munky]

You know what the sad thing is? The ones that really matter to me and the people I know don't even make the news..at least not as big as this wrestler guy.

Here's two examples of murders or murder/suicides of people I went to school with and knew personally. I've known Zach since second grade, and I knew Kari since freshmen year.

Zach Brewer (http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_site=indystar&f_site=indystar&f_sitename=Indianapolis+Star%2FNews%2C+The+%28IN%2 9&p_theme=gannett&p_product=IN&p_action=search&p_field_base-0=&p_text_base-0=zachary+brewer&Search=Search&p_perpage=10&p_maxdocs=200&p_queryname=700&s_search_type=keyword&p_sort=_rank_%3AD&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date%3AB%2CE&p_text_date-0=)

Synopsis - Zachary robbed a store, beat the clerk to death, then his grandparents later found out. He killed them, left their bodies in a bathtub in the bathroom, someone discovered the bodies during a party, and called the cops. Zach blew his head off on the front lawn in front of friends and police officers.

Kari Allen (http://www.theindychannel.com/news/4182431/detail.html)

Synopsis - Kenneth (older brother) and Kari killed their mother, grandmother, and grandfather, etombed their body in the basement of their apartment building, stole their cash and ran for Vegas. Needless to say, they didn't make it.

Both of these only made local news, I don't know of anyone outside this state that knows about it. Not that any of it was right, they brought it on themselves. My point is, you have to be a celebrity or have a lot of money to be remembered in this country, that just shows where people's real priorities are.

[slow 2K2GT]

Aparently its so tough being a multi milionaire now a days....

[kennef]

I think the people who truly concern themselves with killings/crimes in the media are lacking drama in their own lives.

Can any of you really say that you are affected by this news story? There were something like 18,000 murders in the US last year and some uncountable number of total deaths. Why should 99.9% of the population care about any of them? People are more likely to tune into a half hour of Chris Benoit's death tribute than listen to ten seconds about most people's grandmother/uncle/friends untimely passing.

[Munky]

Murders are good for the economy, the government just won't admit it.

Since there's an average of 4 people born for every person that dies, it's pretty obvious there's too many ****ing people on this planet.

[slow 2K2GT]

Murders are good for the economy, the government just won't admit it.

Since there's an average of 4 people born for every person that dies, it's pretty obvious there's too many ****ing people on this planet.


This is true, now go listen to some Tool, get pumped up and strangle the first person that pisses you off!

[SuperGLS]

It's crazy what the 'roids will make you do. I never really liked him as a wrestler, but it's sad none the less that he killed his family.

You never know, it could have been something him and the wife had agreed on, as crazy as that sounds.

But yeah, people only know about it because he was a famous wrestler. I agree with Cuddlebug, people do care about this celebrity crap, as stupid as it is.

[yamaha]

Don't watch the news, or wrestling, makes my life easier.

[PSUsouthpaw]

People pay attention to celebrities because of envy and schadenfreuden(sp?). They'd rather watch other peoples successes and failures than go out and make their own.

[Cypher]

Don't watch the news, or wrestling, makes my life easier.

sean's got the right idea!

[CornbreadXD]

yeah he was an a-hole for killing his family, and i agree celebs get too much attention but they don't get the same punishments for the things they do wrong that a regular person would(for the most part). I also agree about stories that make national news about missing babies and stuff. there are 2 missing people cases in cleveland that happend like 4 years ago and everytime a new person goes missing they keep interviewing the mother of the girl that went missing 4 years ago.