Friday, February 20, 2004

CUT IT OUT: We interrupt our regular Dead Wrestler of the Month feature for something far more pathetic, if that's possible. Uncle Grambo, this one's for you.

Remeber 1980s WWF star Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, host of "The Barbershop" and notorious for asphyxiating his opponents, then cutting off their hair? Have you wondered what happened to him?

Last week, the Boston Herald caught up with him, more or less, in a manner of speaking:
Beefcake - these days Edward Leslie, 46, of Winchester - voluntarily checked into a treatment program Monday, according to a source, after cocaine he admitted was his created an anthrax scare at the MBTA's Downtown Crossing subway station.

Sources said the man who acquired his stage name for hacking off the hair of his enemies in the ring had been working there part time as a fare collector - a job that pays $25,000 a year. . . .

The MBTA confirmed yesterday they have an employee named Edward Leslie, but would not say if he was the one they suspended without pay after cocaine turned up Sunday afternoon on the counter of a Downtown Crossing fare booth, prompting an emergency hazmat response.

Although the subway station was evacuated, MBTA Deputy Police Chief Thomas McCarthy said the fare collector - who he also would not identify - spared commuters further inconvenience by coming clean and dispelling terrorism fears.

At least there's still one former wrestler we can still look up to.

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