Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Edge of Life by Joe Hart Martha Hart On Vince McMahon Not Stopping "Over The Edge" PPV Following Owen’s Death. Martha Hart recently spoke with CBS Sports to promote Tuesday’s “Dark Side of the Ring” episode on the death of her husband, former WWE Superstar Owen Hart. Owen passed away on May 23, 1999 at the WWE Over The Edge pay-per-view after a stunt for his entrance went wrong. Martha holds WWE directly responsible for Owen falling almost 80 feet to his death and says WWE took cost-cutting shortcuts on performing the stunt, hiring unqualified personnel and setting off a domino effect of catastrophic choices. Martha named Bobby Talbert as the “hacker” hired after experienced rigger Joe Branam had refused to do the stunt. Branam had done rigging work for The Rolling Stones and Elton John, among others. “First of all, the stunt itself was so negligent,” Hart said. “They hired hackers they knew would do anything they wanted when they knew that proper riggers they had hired in the past had told them, ‘We won’t do this kind of stunt, it’s not safe.’ Everything about that stunt was done wrong. The entire set-up was wrong. The equipment was wrong — the harness, for example, was meant for dragging people behind a car. It was a stunt harness, but it wasn’t meant to suspend someone 80 feet above the ground. “What was happening to Owen when he was sitting in that harness is, his circulation was getting cut off and he couldn’t breathe. Then, the snap shackle that they used, that snap shackle is not meant for rigging humans. It’s meant for the sole use of rigging sailboats. It’s a sailboat clip that, by design, is meant to open on load. By the very design of the stunt, it was meant to fail, because the weight of Owen on that clip actually made it more likely it would open spontaneously.” Hart continued with more details on what happened and said Owen never questioned his safety as he thought WWE would be hiring people who knew what they were doing. She believes WWE had no regard for his life. “Proper riggers have a few things they would never do. First, they would never do a stunt without redundancy,” Martha said. “That didn’t happen; there was no redundancy. Second, they never, ever, let the talent have any control into the stunt. These guys were telling Owen, ‘This cord taped here, don’t pull it until you get to the ground.’ That would never happen; proper riggers don’t rig things this way. The other thing is, WWE is a billion-dollar company. Owen never questioned his safety. He thought for sure they were hiring people that knew what they were doing. He was putting his life in their hands, and they didn’t care. They didn’t have any regard for Owen’s life whatsoever. They went outside of qualified riggers that had good experience.” WWE has been criticized for years over how they ended up finishing the Over The Edge pay-per-view following a short break after the incident. Martha said the wrestlers who worked the show could feel the dip in the ring where Owen well. She called Vince McMahon a poor leader. “When Owen died, they scooped him out like a piece of garbage and they paraded wrestlers out to wrestle in a ring that had Owen’s blood, where the boards were broken from Owen’s fall and where the guys could feel the dip in the ring from where he fell. Just that disrespect and lack of respect for a human life that had just been lost,” Hart said. “The fact that they didn’t stop the show is just appalling. Vince McMahon was a poor leader, and he failed because that talent was looking for leadership and he failed them.” Hart: The illusion of intelligence of the imperious 'woke' Left. The three-month trial membership in "wokeness" is up, and America does not want to subscribe. With the monomaniacal desire to get rid of Trump, the leftist millennial "woke" crowd has overplayed its manufactured grievances. Some have become so "woke," they can't sleep. It turns out, most Americans do not like these whiny incoherent layabouts who are bent on making us bow to their whimsy. The media recently realized this and no longer show the ongoing riots, destruction and lawlessness of anarchists across the country in cities such as Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland. When visuals do not help their cause, the media hides them. Those who built this country find the gripes of this crowd to be petty. This millennial generation has it so good that to make their own failings palatable, they manufacture victim-hood. The Greatest Generation stormed the beaches at Normandy, staring down certain death to liberate Europe. These snowflakes are triggered and cry when they glance a statue. There should be a "Millennial Survivor" or "Fear Factor "show in which contenders are forced to go a weekend without being offended by a statue or syrup bottle. If you believe you are right, do not tear down instructive historic relics of the past. It is the reason the Jewish community doesn't demand Auschwitz demolished. Contextualized properly, it serves humanity better by standing as a reminder. Griping is easy to do from the comfort of a parent's basement while watching Netflix and 2,500 other channels on TV. My generation had three TV channels and had to wade through 12-feet of shag carpet to change the channel. It is the same with sex. Today it is ubiquitous. We had to work for it with wooing, flowers, kindness, and trial and error. The Beatles sang to my generation, "All You Need is Love." This generation can get "loved" in an hour by swiping right on Tinder. We would go to a movie and then decide if we want to have sex. Now people have sex and then decide if they want to go to a movie. I get it; going to a movie is a bigger commitment of time. "Woke" is a form of virtue signaling. Democrats thrive on empty gestures that improve no one's life but make themselves feel superior. By agreeing to inane things, corporations and individuals buy political cover from the woke mob — much like the folks in North Korea who put up a picture of Kim Jung Un. It buys safety, for now. This very callous "woke" crowd is defined by trying to cancel anything they disagree with. They do not want debate, or opposing opinions, they just want it gone. Mexican food products manufacturer Goya Foods recently became a target of the cancel culture mobsters, led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Yet, when the owner stood up for Trump, his sales skyrocketed. He should name AOC employee of the month. The news of this even found its way to Biden, who likely responded with: If you support Goya Foods, you ain't Hispanic. All this woke leftist malarkey has forced Biden, a man struggling with his mental acuity, to act like he cares about it. Biden awkwardly tries to understand the vagaries of the jarring movement left of his party and jumps on board with anything his advisers tell him. It will get worse if he picks true progressive and accomplished wacko Elizabeth Warren as his vice president choice. She wants it so bad, and like others, is shamelessly pandering for the spot. Warren even changed her Indian name to Running Mate. Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden co-opted this leftist progressive environmental millennial crowd. This is ironic since their age combined is a millennium. Biden now leads the nuts, advocating the Green New Deal, wherein we would have no aircraft, no automobiles, no boats. We should elect Biden president of Gilligan's Island, and tell him he won. Hart: Joe Biden's bumbling starts before he is even sworn in. Joe Biden's Gerald Ford-like bumbling has begun even before he is inaugurated. CNN gleefully reported that Ole Joe broke his foot after getting out of the shower to playfully chase his dog, which, miraculously, threw Joe a ball. His German shepherds, which the media report he humanely rescued from the dog shelter, will be at the White House with the Bidens. The two dogs are named Graft and Corruption. When Kamala Harris heard of the dog incident, she rushed to the hospital to demand that Joe Biden be put down immediately. If this had happened to Trump, the media would have reported that the president got caught naked chasing German tail. Adam Schiff would then launch a congressional investigation into the Trump family's German connections, pointing to Ivana Trump's German accent to get a FISA warrant — which, of course, would be issued by an Obama-appointed judge in Washington, D.C. It is hard for Joe, Kamala or their PR agents in the media to be mad at these sweet dogs. Both canines voted for Joe in Philadelphia. And they voted absentee in Atlanta because dogs are smart; they did not want to travel because of COVID. This all happened as the Harris/Biden administration is naming its Cabinet, one so weak that you'd think it was one from IKEA that I had assembled by myself. It seems more about symbolism than substance. Biden is taking a Noah's Ark approach, considering gender and ethnicity first to make sure he checks all the boxes.