10 WWE Moments That Made You Extremely Uncomfortable
2. Tim White Tries To Kill Himself At The Friendly Tap
Right, OK...where do you start with this one? Veteran referee Timmy White was never the same after he injured his shoulder taking a tumble into the wall of the Hell in a Cell at Judgement Day 2002. He quit being a WWE referee soon after and eased into a backstage role. At Armageddon 2005, WWE shot a series of segments with a despondent White at the pub he owns, The Friendly Tap. Claiming that Hell in a Cell had ruined his life (Orton and 'Taker clashed inside the Devil's Playground in the main event), White was depicted as a depressed, heavy drinker who was at the end of his tether. And so it turned out to be, as White took a shotgun and pulled the trigger (off-camera). Errrrrr...did Tim White just kill himself live on PPV? No, he didn't, shooting his foot by accident. Incredibly, this skit turned into a regular WWE.com series called 'Lunchtime Suicide' with the former official trying a new way of offing himself, invariably failing to do it properly. The punchline was Josh Matthews getting shot by White at a party. Har har. Hilariously, the original sketch at Argmageddon spectacularly backfired and to the extend that:
1) Local Cumberland, CT police got an estimated 1,000 phone calls about the suicide depicted on the PPV. 2) The door of Whites Friendly Tap bar was pried off the hinges by local police and fire, causing $3,000 in damages. 3) White himself has to give a deposition regarding the incident to local police, who were upset about not having been clued in ahead of time to the sketch. 4) The e-mail address of the bar recived 4,000 e-mails of condolence and comment.
That's kind of what you deserve for agreeing to participate in this risible tripe, Timmy.
