6. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin Attempts To Hit Rikishi With A Car - No Mercy 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFnUxwlLSKA Vehicular manslaughter was a popular storytelling device in the WWF Attitude Era. The most notable of these moments may have involved the heel turn of fun-loving dancer Rikishi into racially motivated potential felon Rikishi who ostensibly hit "Stone Cold" Steve Austin with a car (the storyline reason he was out for most of the year of 1999 to recover from neck injuries) so that The Rock could be the first Samoan in WWF history to succeed without having to be saddled with a gimmick based around a terrible stereotype. In a "No Holds Barred" match featuring Rikishi taking multiple chair-shots, its ruled a "No Contest" when Austin and Rikishi brawl backstage and when Austin commandeers a truck to return the favor of attempted manslaughter, he crashes into a police vehicle, and is subsequently arrested.
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