I saw Vince and Jim Ross talking about the release of Steve Austin (Williams) on Confidential last night. Between that and the focus on the incident on the WWE Website, I was anticipating it being an elaborate work...

Then today I read about Steve allegedly hitting Debra... she didn't press charges, but police came to their home to find her bruised up...

Either this is all part of a major angle to 'work the smarts', or Steve has really gone off the deep end.