Wow

[dmegametal#1]

Investigation expands, Chairman's headquarters searched
By Bryan Robinson
Written: June 13, 2007
STAMFORD, Conn. – Federal authorities investigating the presumed death of Mr. McMahon visited the Chairman’s office at WWE corporate headquarters earlier this morning, and were seen loading what appeared to be hundreds of boxes into vans, WWE.com has learned.

Sources close to the investigation say officials arrived at Titan Tower at 6 a.m. The federal officers, sources said, were gathering evidence in search of any clues in the apparent fiery demise of Mr. McMahon, who may have perished Monday night at the end of Raw when the limousine he had just entered exploded. So far, authorities have not recovered Mr. McMahon’s body or any of his remains.

Insisting that they could not comment on an ongoing investigation, FBI officials would not reveal what the agents were looking for or what they removed from the Chairman’s office. But according to one anonymous source, investigators rummaged through hundreds of McMahon’s files and dusted his office for fingerprints. They also, the source said, were seen taking the WWE visionary’s computers off the premises.

The agents were said to have spent three hours combing through files and removing materials. When they were finished, the Chairman’s office – which normally was filled with cabinets and state-of-art computers – had been stripped clean. Its carpeting had been removed, and normally organized bookshelves were left in disarray.

Federal authorities, sources said, are also looking at the Chairman’s e-mail and all of his writings for any clues. They are especially looking at anything he may have written in the last two weeks, when his behavior became increasingly erratic.

Will anything taken from Mr. McMahon’s office – any e-mail on his computers – provide any clues? Stay with WWE.com for further updates on the investigation as details become available.

Log on later this week as our reporters hope to talk to the lead detective in the federal investigation. In addition, tune in to SmackDown on Friday at 8/7 CT to find out the latest developments in the probe and watch the tribute to Mr. McMahon.

http://www.wwe.com/

[King_Nothing]

Thats messed up:

http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakin ... aking.html

WILKES-BARRE TWP. – Did Vince McMahon, who’s bluffed and blustered his way into the ringmaster’s role of the testosterone-fueled soap opera that is professional wrestling, really fall for the old bomb-in-the-limo trick?


Though World Wrestling Entertainment would have you believe otherwise, the answer is no.

“No one was in any danger,” said Steve Poremba of Monday night’s WWE RAW spectacle at the Wachovia Arena, though he would not elaborate until WWE had sent out a news release.

Despite articles on the wrestling federation’s Web site that firefighters and federal agents are investigating, workers at the Luzerne County 911 Center confirmed that it was “a stunt” and that no emergency vehicles were called to the arena on Monday night.

FBI officials have not yet returned a call.

But fans from across the country have been contacting local media to confirm reports that McMahon, the chairman of the board of WWE, was blown up in a fiery limo-bombing on his very own “Mr. McMahon Appreciation Night,” which was televised on USA Network. McMahon had walked out of the building to the waiting vehicle, so fans inside the arena saw the same televised live scene.

Only it was wasn’t live. Supervised by Zenith Pyrotechnology, based in Deer Park, N.Y., the explosion was actually filmed at the arena late Saturday night, the footage of the burning hulk taped Sunday night and the whole mess spliced together, said Andy Kratz, the township’s zoning officer.

“They did it, I believe, at 11 o’clock at night until 3 a.m. so no one would be around,” he said, adding that it was done in a section generally blocked from public view by the building and surrounding land features.

The pyrotechnics company had to get permits, which Kratz said they did about a week ago. “We have pyrotechnics shows in the arena all the time” for wrestling and ice skating, among other things, he said. “They say they do this quite a bit,” but usually not outside.

Representatives of the pyrotechnics company have not returned calls for comment.

The stunt seems to be part of an ongoing story of McMahon’s spiral into insanity, which wwe.com has been supporting with repeated updates of the faux-bombing story.

“Over the last few weeks on WWE programming, the swaggering, well-off billionaire seemed to unravel right before the eyes of millions. … Mr. McMahon even cited the looming of a “black cloud” last week – a cloud very similar to the post-combustive smoke that billowed above his limousine tonight,” the Web site reported. “The ominous reality is that what was brushed off as incoherent ramblings of a broken man and former ECW World Champion actually may have proven to be an exercising of a recently discovered sixth sense.”

WWE representatives have not yet returned a call for comment.

[dmegametal#1]

well i just woke a few hours ago when i saw that and half tired still..this was supposed to be like a few years old gag

[Fadingtoblack]

Still fake.

What's funny are all the comments after stories like this expressing shock and sympathy for the family!


Apparently the local fire brigade wasn't called. They had gotten permits to let off explosions in the city. And that it had been filmed one or two nights earlier anyway!

Also, it's WWE, so that's the biggest tip off

[Doin]

This reminds me of a story my late grandfather told me about his time as a sports journalist in South Africa during the 1930s/40s.

He was covering a "professional" wrestling match and had front row seats. During the match the wrestlers rolled out of the ring and under the hessian curtain that draped the ring. While the crowd watched an empty ring to the sounds of banging and screaming, my grandfather went up to the curtain and lifted it to see one wrestler at one end, on his back, kicking the ring floor. The other was at the other end screaming and shouting.

He wisely chose not to report that part of the match.

[dmegametal#1]

well..everything is staged in the WWE..so i guess they used trick photography to make it look real..now probally Vince will take the rest of the year off to revamp the whole WWE empire

[Mr.Metal]

wow, Vince...WWE has been so lame for the past 10 years that now you have to faked your own death to get some ratings?
Lame

[dmegametal#1]

even if they still had the Rock,Stone Cold and the Dudley's..that would be awesome

[King_Nothing]

I really miss the good old days. late mid 80's - '97 or so was the best era imo.

[even13flow]

I think it's horrible to even offer that as a storyline, when Owen Hart actually did die in the ring. Then they wonder why when it happened everybody thought it was a stunt...death isn't funny.