However, the angle seems to have worked with many minor websites and even some radio stations reporting the incident as real. Vince McMahon has topped the Yahoo! Buzz Index overall top movers for the first time ever as searches for the boss soared by 2977%.

Perhaps the most controversial, and morally questionable, move is WWE's own web site reporting that McMahon has been presumed dead and then the rest of the TV shows this week (ECW and this Friday Night's Smackdown) continuing to act as if McMahon is dead and having the shows in his memory. On this Friday's Smackdown they go a step further, and even have a memorial and ten-bell salute at the beginning of the show with the entire Smackdown roster, which has only been done in the past for the real-life deaths of Owen Hart and Eddie Guererro.

While I personally didn't mind the angle when I saw it Monday night, I thought WWE would be quick to report that McMahon's body was not found in the limo. However, acting as if McMahon has passed away and fooling whatever percentage of the viewers are buying into the angle is pretty morally reprehensible. It also makes light of the aforementioned real life deaths that have occurred in wrestling.

Whether or not this means the end of McMahon's on-screen character, or if it's an angle of McMahon staging his own death or Shane McMahon trying to take out his father to take control of the company, the lines have already been crossed. It seems as most fans feel the same way, is in our Weekly Poll this week where we asked 'Is WWE going too far with the Vince McMahon Death storyline?', an resounding 67% of readers are saying they are (a number which has been rising each day), with only 24% saying that they aren't and 9% saying that they can't say yet.

It does appear however that most fans aren't buying that Vince McMahon is actually dead. On this Friday's Smackdown when the tribute to McMahon was done, the segment was met with a resounding chorus of boos.