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Shadic
Posted on 06-29-07 08:37 AM Link | Quote | ID: 50622


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Squash Monster
Posted on 06-29-07 08:53 AM Link | Quote | ID: 50627


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So either we have a really confident murderer who felt like playing with the internet or we have psychic Wikipedia posters.

It's the former, but I hope it's the later, that'd be useful.

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emcee
Posted on 06-29-07 09:10 AM Link | Quote | ID: 50633


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The guy says it was coincidence:

Posted by "The guy"

Hey everyone. I am here to talk about the wikipedia comment that was left by myself. I just want to say that it was an incredible coincidence. Last weekend, I had heard about Chris Benoit no showing Vengeance because of a family emergency, and I had heard rumors about why that was. I was reading rumors and speculation about this matter online, and one of them included that his wife may have passed away, and I did the wrong thing by posting it on wikipedia to spite there being no evidence. I posted my speculation on the situation at the time and I am deeply sorry about this, and I was just as shocked as everyone when I heard that this actually would happen in real life. It is one of those things that just turned into a huge coincidence. That night I found out that what I posted, ended up actually happening, a 1 in 10,000 chance of happening, or so I thought. I was beyond wrong for posting wrongful information, and I am sorry to everyone for this. I just want everyone to know it was stupid of me, and I will never do anything like this again. I just posted something that was at that time a piece of wrong unsourced information that is typical on wikipedia, as it is done all the time.

Nonetheless, I feel incredibly bad for all the attention this got because of the fact that what I said turned out to be the truth. Like I said it was just a major coincidence, and I will never vandalize anything on wikipedia or post wrongful information. I've learned from this experience. I just can't believe what I wrote was actually the case, I've remained stunned and saddened over it.

I wish not to reveal my identity so I can keep me and my family out of this since they have nothing to do with anything. I am not connected to WWE or Benoit at all in anyway. I am from Stamford as the IP address shows, and I am just an everyday individual who posted a wrongful remark at the time that received so much attention because it turned out to actually happen. I will say again I didn't know anything about the Benoit tragedy, it was a terrible coincidence that I never saw coming.

I hope this puts an end to this speculation that someone knew about the tragedy before it was discovered. It was just a rumor that I had heard about from other people online who were speculating what the family emergency Chris was attending to. I made a big mistake by posting this comment on his page, since all we had were what we thought was going on and nothing about what actually was going on yet, and sadly what happened turned out to be my speculation at the time. I assumed wiki would edit out my information, which they did, so thats why I didn't go back to edit it out myself.

I know I keep repeating it but I feel terrible about the mainstream coverage this has received, since it was only a huge coincidence and a terrible event that should of never happened. I am not sure how to react, as hearing about my message becoming a huge part of the Benoit slayings made me feel terrible as everyone believes that it is connected to the tragedy, but it was just an awful coincidence. That is all I have to say, I will never post anything here again unless it is pure fact, no spam nothing like that. Thank you, and let this end this chapter of the Benoit story, and hopefully one day we will find out why this tragedy ever actually happened.



I guess that's why you don't post unsourced information on Wikipedia.

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Sgraff87
Posted on 06-29-07 09:53 AM Link | Quote | ID: 50643


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Wikipedia knows all!

Shadic
Posted on 06-29-07 09:59 AM Link | Quote | ID: 50644


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Stark
Posted on 06-29-07 01:28 PM Link | Quote | ID: 50666

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He is just making things up. At first, he was probably just not sure of the Death Note's power, and now he wants to cover up that he has it.

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Squash Monster
Posted on 06-29-07 01:50 PM Link | Quote | ID: 50671


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Okay guys, close the thread. Alastor already won it.

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Jin Dogan
Posted on 06-29-07 03:13 PM (rev. 2 of 06-29-07 03:19 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 50680


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Posted by Shadic
He's totally lying, the Wikipedia prophet made somebody tell a story to clean their records, or something.


He/she could have also been a party to the crime.

HyperHacker
Posted on 06-29-07 08:00 PM Link | Quote | ID: 50710

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I'll have to find this guy and get him to write about how I won the lottery.

Koitenshin -∞
Posted on 06-29-07 08:53 PM Link | Quote | ID: 50726

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Screw that idea. I need him to write about how I became the Master of all Time and Space. O wait....

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Metal_Man88
Posted on 06-29-07 10:20 PM Link | Quote | ID: 50751


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Curses, he has the death note. I'll need to continue hiding my name then.

Maybe I can get the annoying note. *Writes various people's names into it*

drjayphd
Posted on 06-30-07 12:40 AM Link | Quote | ID: 50794


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Y'all know we're talking about this in the WWE thread in Entertainment, yes?

Apparently not.

Xkeeper
Posted on 06-30-07 12:42 AM Link | Quote | ID: 50796


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DJP: Considering, I am not suprised.

The WWE thread usually focuses on WWE type things -- I would have never thought to look there before here.

I don't see a big problem with crossposting this kind of thing, when it's inevitablely related to two topics at once. It fits both "weird news" and "wrestling information", so...

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Shadic
Posted on 06-30-07 02:07 AM Link | Quote | ID: 50825


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Kirby Mario
Posted on 06-30-07 07:50 AM Link | Quote | ID: 50941


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True. I didn't even care about WWE or the thread, but I'm still amazed of what happened and saw it here.

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KnightValor
Posted on 06-30-07 09:56 PM Link | Quote | ID: 51057

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Posted by Shadic
And I'm sure that most members are more likely to come across it here, rather than a WWE thread.


ha! Owned!

I still laugh about how wikipedia had to ban a bunch of places where politicians would edit each others pages - talk about leaders of the country.

Raccoon Sam
Posted on 07-01-07 09:31 PM Link | Quote | ID: 51272


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Time Zones, mayhaps.

But then again, a famous Finnish singer also died a while back, and when it was first announced in the radio, I couldn't believe it so I went to Wikipedia at the same minute the broadcast said that he died. The information was all there. I was pretty wtf.

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HyperHacker
Posted on 07-02-07 03:36 AM Link | Quote | ID: 51407

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Someone probably heard an earlier broadcast on another station and wrote about it.

Toxic
Posted on 07-02-07 04:22 AM Link | Quote | ID: 51414


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It would have been funnier if you linked us to the wiki article on this situation.

Sonicandfails
Posted on 07-02-07 10:44 PM Link | Quote | ID: 51668


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Oh shit guys, look what I just found...

Apparently Wikipedia really does predict the future!

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