Steve Austin - Wife Beater (Good Role Model)

[Lost Cause]

Does this mean he's on his way out? Do you think the kids know the difference between the "show", and real life?



SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, one of the best known characters in American professional wrestling, surrendered to law enforcement officials in Texas on Tuesday on a charge of beating his wife.

He posted $5,000 bond and was released pending future legal action, said a spokesman for the Bexar County Sheriff's Department.

Austin, 36, a Texas native whose real name is Steve Williams, turned himself in after an arrest warrant was issued charging him with assault causing bodily injury on a spouse.

Police were called to Austin's upscale San Antonio home in June by wife Debra Williams who told police the World Wrestling Entertainment star beat her on the head, back and legs, then fled.

Williams, 42, is a former beauty queen also affiliated with WWE.

 

[SleepingWarrior]

Austin left the WWE in June already. As for the wife beating... I used to think he was a real man's man but now he isn't even fit to be called a man.

 

[Liontamr]

Wasn't the warrent for the arrest issued last month? You mean he just turned himself in now??

Anyway..

Kids are alot more in-tune with the times that most "adults" give them credit for. Most would know that when the Dudleys put some woman through a table it's very much staged but that shit like Steve beating on his wife is about as low as a man can get.

It's just too bad many self righteous groups who want to censor every "bad" tv show in sight can't be more in tune with the times.

 

[DevilBoy79]

finally more news, thx for sharing

 

[StrawberryPez]

I don't know, you can't really say that kids are more intune than we think. I mean haven't you seen those commercials for the Backyard Wrestling stuff? Kids making home movies of them recreating stuff they see on TV. Like jumping off of houses onto tables and hitting each other with chairs. I'm not saying that they will take it as far as hitting a woman because Stone Cold said so, but hey, you never know.

 

[Liontamr]

In terms of that I agree with you 100% Pez. I doubt they would follow it to the extreme of beating on a wife but they do follow wrestling to the point of injury by acting out what they see. And no amount of PSA's from the WWE is going to stop them either. It's kinda funny how kids will hang on Mick Foley's every word in a ring until he starts talking about how dangerous wrestling is then they tune him and others out.

But in terms of violence on these shows - I'm talking the situations when a man beats on a woman (ie: Dudleys putting a woman through a table, or even last week the Island Boys attacking Llian Garcia) - I think most kids over the age of 8 who are allowed to watch know full well that attacks like that are staged and planned out and that to do that in real life - like Steve Austin did - gets you in serious hot water.

 

[Liontamr]

Just to add to that thought..

It all comes back to the parents in my books... They have to be the ones responsible for educating the kids on just how wrestling is staged and set up and that wrestlers and pro athletes alike really shouldn't be looked at as role models.

Admire them for their talent and entertainment but when it comes to looking for someone a kid can look up to I would recomend teachers, family and parents, not a wrestler or baseball player.

 

[SINthysist]

What comes to mind is the not-to-distant wrestling death performed by a child on his toddler sister...

It has no effect.

Similarly, I read a recent article (actually commentary by Tammy Bruce) about a hollywood film majer who recently contracted cancer after years of being a "militant" smoker. Now the guy is full of remorse about showing smoking and the example it set to others. Of course his films, like Basic Instinct, glorify violence and the degradation of women. But no aplogies for this. Just the smoking. More moral relativism....

 

[Liontamr]

What comes to mind is the not-to-distant wrestling death performed by a child on his toddler sister...

Again though.. where are the parents?

Of course little kids are going to emulate what they see on TV and end up causing harm, but is that wrestling's fault or the parents?

And I know that the problem in saying "it's the parents who need to be responsible" is that not all parents are, but I don't feel that it should be hollywood's responsibility to raise your kid and I damn sure know that it's not fair to regular, responsible people to have what we are able to watch on TV dictated to us for the sake of some kids with piss poor parents who don't tell them what is right from wrong.