Son's Message to Benoit: "See Ya, Pooh Bear"

31. TMZ I think you should take this down... this is sad and private.It makes me sick to think that people are listening to these private messages. Let the family rest. There has to be something else you can report on. I understand that the news station reported it first but they were in the wrong too. You shouldnt have picked it up and put it on your site.My father committed suicide so I know this is a delicate thing to be broadcasting to everyone. Let Chris and Nancy's families have peace.Please take it down...

Posted at 1:59PM on May 1st 2008 by Taylor

32. To Changed Thinking,

What the hell are you talking about? Inhaled steroids to treat astma are cortisol steroids and not anabolic steroids, two COMPLETLY different things. Goes to show you how ignorant people are on the issue of steroids.

Posted at 3:05PM on May 1st 2008 by Clarify

33. Damn i almost cried hearing his son say that.

Posted at 3:56PM on May 1st 2008 by SuperBad

34. To 18, 22 and 25, you are entitled to your views but I'd challenge you to do this. I'd dare you to go to Chris' two surviving children and tell them how much of a coward their father was or go to his father Michael Benoit and tell him those same things. I'll bet even Nancy's family would agree this type of hate isn't needed.

Rather than waste your energy saying "Rot in hell", perhaps you should pray for the surviving families on both sides of this tragedy. And, as another poster said, there are details that still doesn't have me 100% convinced that he did this. I still think there are parts that aren't clear at all such as all the alcohol that was allegedly consumed YET they couldn't find any in his system! Plus, if he was THAT intoxicated and that loaded on drugs, how did he have the coordination hang himself, let alone set up the weights?!

Yeah, someone still knows more than they are letting in on. If he did it, then so be it but if someone else was involved, then remember this......whatever you do in the dark WILL come to light. It might be a year, 2 years, 10 years but eventually it will come out.

Posted at 6:16PM on May 1st 2008 by egriffin

35. The press that obtained the CD with the home telephone messages on it badgerred the Fayette County Sherrif's office until they were required by law to give it to them. Nancy was loving, Daniel was perfect and at one point Chris was kind. The wrestling industry and what it requires of its "talent" turned Christopher into a monster slowly, but certainly. The family of Nancy and Daniel and of Chris do not deserve to be tortured by the media in order to sell advertising time, get ratings or sell magazines. They live daily in a personal hell that not many human beings can empathize with and that NO human being should have to suffer. People with conspiracy theories and "lingering questions" are ignorant and uninformed and don't know the details of that horrendous weekend...nor should they. Chris murdered his beautiful wife and son. He had problems nobody knew about, lived in a state of perpetual bereavement, had life altering injuries and a drug and alcohol problem that became progressively worse. Like almost every other wrestler. Stop trying to cannonize someone you think you knew just because he was on television...remember the people who cry daily for the sudden loss they faced last year and the lives that will never be the same. Think of them next time some sensational story or crazed theory catches your attention for all of five minutes.

Posted at 7:25PM on May 1st 2008 by Starfish

36. Yah TMZ..... i love you and all... and what you do.... i support every opinion/story you bring to the table


but seriously... this isnt right... esspecially having to hear the son..... i almost started crying here at work and i couldnt listen to the whole thing...... seriously....... this is pretty dispicable

please of all things you have on this site... take this down..... this one really isnt right..... im sorry

where is the rest of the family... you better pray they dont have to hear this.... my god

Posted at 7:14PM on May 2nd 2008 by Jason

37. Okie yeah I have to agree this is over the line to post. I dont care if they arent the first to have it. It's still in such BAD taste I have never EVER been offend by you guys hell not in even the pp dropping babies but you guy have seriously crossed a line

Posted at 10:36PM on May 1st 2008 by Dani

38. 25. Rot in hell, Chris:

I hope you get run over by a truck.

Posted at 10:37PM on May 1st 2008 by Dani

39. I think its seneseless and outrageous that TMZ would stoop this low for entertainment and post what are private messages.

Posted at 9:24AM on May 2nd 2008 by Rigginsfan07

40. Why thank you morons. You people and your conspiracy theories. Puhleeze. The man was a friggin coward. He killed his family. If caring soo much about your family means killing them, then I'll continue to hate mine. I've always wanted to die by being run over by the beer truck. Thanks for the well wishes!

Posted at 10:59PM on May 1st 2008 by Rot in hell, Chris

41. "27. A neighbor's 7 year old boy head butted my other senior citizen female neighbor in the stomach because she told him to stay out of her flower beds. The boy's mother, horrified, stated that since her son started inhaling steroidal compounds to aid his asthma, he had become irrationally aggressive at times. Imagine the amount of steroids some of these wrestling guys MAY have taken to bulk up to increase their strength to (in their minds) maintain their living.

Posted at 1:13PM on May 1st 2008 by Changed Thinking."

This is at the same time, one of the funniest yet stupidest things I have ever read!

Posted at 12:41AM on May 2nd 2008 by Goon

42. Yes, especially since the neighbors son was taking cortisol steroids and not anabolic like wrestlers do to bulk up. Cortisol steroids for astma are complete different than anabolic.

Posted at 2:11AM on May 2nd 2008 by I agree

43. Harvey...you really need to fire your editor.Heartwrenching story aside, your lead is highly inaccurate. You are not reporting on the son's last message to his father. Rather, this story is about a father's last message TO his son. Is a little accuracy too much for your readers to ask for?

Headline should read : Benoit's final messages TO son. Not "Son's message to Benoit." Who was contacting whom? Your staff should just burn their Journalism degrees now.

Posted at 2:56AM on May 2nd 2008 by Naughtycal Enchantress

44. Steroids...

Anyone who thinks it was, is a FING AHOLE! They found that after the many stunts he did while in wrestling, that he was suffering from concussions! Why do you think football players are no longer allowed to play if they sustain enough of them. go read up on what a concussion really is before you go typing away your crap.

And to TMZ, that was low. Haven't you ever heard of RIP? Whats that stand for boys n girls? Do you actually know?
Didn't think so.


Also, if anyone wants to complain about what TMZ does, don't leave a comment! EMAIL the higher ups and Im not talking about Harvey, Im talking about HIS bosses at AOL

Posted at 9:21AM on May 2nd 2008 by Dark

45. Dumb comment there lindy... you're telling everyone to get off their ass and do something cause that's how you lost all your friends, so why didn't you do something?
The phone calls you heard from other people were made AFTER everything happened. What did you want them to do? Get in their time machine and fix everything?

Posted at 11:28AM on May 3rd 2008 by Beth