Wikipedia hoax troubles

I think this is funny…  He should have added that he was found innocent because he was on the space shuttle at the time.  I guess you have to be very careful when dealing with people who are “sense of humor” challenged.

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Brian Chase (age 38 as of 2005) is an American businessman who posted a hoax on Wikipedia which led to the John Seigenthaler Sr. Wikipedia biography controversy.

Chase was the operations manager of Rush Delivery in Nashville, Tennessee. He anonymously posted material from his employer's IP (65.81.97.208) on 26 May 2005, suggesting that John Seigenthaler Sr., a former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville, had been involved in the assassinations of both John and Robert Kennedy and had lived in the Soviet Union for several years. The article remained unedited for several months until Seigenthaler was made aware of the article and subsequently criticized Wikipedia in several media outlets.

Chase became aware of the effect of his post through the news. Meanwhile, the IP address he had used was traced back to his company by Daniel Brandt and others. With the pressure mounting, Chase resigned from Rush Delivery on 9 December and delivered a handwritten apology that day to Seigenthaler. Chase said he had done it as a joke to shock a colleague, after he had found out anyone could edit Wikipedia. Chase's identity was reported in the New York Times on 11 December 2005.

if they don't delete his entry it is located here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chase_%28Wikipedia_hoaxer%29

Original page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seigenthaler_Sr._Wikipedia_biography_controversy