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Green Frog scene of WWF fightFriday December 14, 2001, 11:59:33 AM
Scott Hair usually doesn't have a problem dealing with shoplifters in his grocery stores, but he wasn't about to stop a heavily muscled professional wrestler with a bad attitude from taking what he wanted Tuesday. Hair is the president of Green Frog Markets, the oldest chain of independently owned grocery stores in Bakersfield. On Tuesday, he let one of pro wrestling's biggest names, Stone Cold Steve Austin, "protect" his produce from rival grappler Booker T at the Green Frog Market on Bernard Street. The scene was part of a World Wrestling Federation storyline that was taped Tuesday for tonight's episode of "Smackdown!" for UPN. "It was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen," Hair said. "They're a group of very talented entertainment people working together, and they work very hard to get a decent product out. It was really interesting to work with the WWF." Hair said he was contacted by the WWF through the Kern County Board of Trade, Film and Tourism Council and agreed to the show's taping. The store was closed during the taping, Hair said, but dozens of wrestling fans caught all the action through the store's windows. The taping featured bad-guy wrestler Booker T trying to shoplift items from the cereal aisle. Moments later, the dreadlocked grappler runs into the surly Stone Cold -- or rather, Stone Cold runs Booker T into a shelf filled with bread loaves. After stops in the produce and deli aisles -- "You'll just have to watch the show to see what they did in that aisle," Hair said -- Booker T manages to stuff Stone Cold in the dairy cooler. The fight ends with one of the wrestlers getting pushed in a shopping cart and getting scanned at a check-out counter, Hair said. Hair said he'll be in San Francisco for a meeting of the California Independent Grocers Association and won't get to see the episode of UPN with his family. He also said WWF owners Vince and Shane McMahon promised to reimburse the store for all the damage. "Looking at the first-class operation that they run, I have no doubt that they'll make sure that our company is fully reimbursed for the damage that their athletes may have caused in our store," Hair said. |
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