Does Jeff Hardy use a parachute to do the swan dive? Nope. I'm calling bullshit on this excuse.

Evolution at work. Not that I don't feel for the kid, it's really his parents' fault for passing on their genes, and then not taking care of him.

My brother tried to do that in the seventies. He was just about to go over the balcony with a sheet for a parachute when my grandmother nabbed him.

A number of comments to be made here, first I want to echo The Realist in stating that Jeff Hardy does not use a parachute in performing his finishing move (called the Swanton Bomb, not the Swan Dive). Among the many reasons for this is the fact that the move involves a flip, making a parachute completely nonsensical. Also, it should be pointed out that, while Jeff Hardy has attained some level of fame for doing the Swanton off of high places, he has definitely never done it off the roof of an apartment building. And, for that matter, who the hell let a nine-year-old kid go on the roof of an apartment building unsupervised?

Another thing about this article I wanted to address is the whole WWE/Lionel Tate/PTC issue. First of all, the reason the defense was thrown out was because the moves he said he imitated, and in fact all actions conducive to professional wrestling, didn't match up in the slightest with the autopsy injury reports. Which had more than a little to do with the WWE/PTC Lawsuit. Any organization hardly has to "tread lightly" when blaming the WWE for anything, as it was significantly more than that which lead to the lawsuit. First of all, the PTC did not claim that the WWE played a role in Eunick's murder, they claimed it was directly responsible for that and the deaths of three other children. Not only that, they then began harassing sponsors of WWE programming, frequently "informing" them that they were, basically, accessories to murder (the sponsors themselves, not the WWE). At one point, they claimed (entirely falsely) that they had cost the WWE 30 to 40 sponsors. The lawsuit that was filed was not only filed on these grounds, but on the grounds that the PTC had been using trademarked footage in promotional videos. The lawsuit itself was settled not on issues of emotional damage or any kind of bullshit like that, but rather entirely on the grounds of statements made by the PTC that were demonstrably false. What your article is essentially claiming is that the WWE is one of those organizations that uses fear of lawsuits to silence criticism. It's not. It's one of those organizations that in one instance filed a lawsuit against another organization for spreading numerous provable lies that cost them in almost every conceivable way. A better title for this article might be "Don't Blame 'Smackdown' for Jumping Boy's Death: You Might Actually Have to Make Your Case".

Gutes Thema. Bin zwar nicht ganz deiner Meinung, aber das ist ja auch kein Forum hier. Bleibt am Ball.