Banker jumps to his death from luxury apartment

[PADemD]

Source: NY Post

An investment banker jumped to his death from the window of his million-dollar apartment in the Financial District on Thursday, sources and authorities said.

The 29-year-old man plunged from the 24th floor of the luxury Ocean apartment building at 1?West St. at about 10:40?a.m. and landed on a guardrail near the northbound Battery Park Underpass, narrowly missing a black SUV.

Read more: http://nypost.com/2015/05/28/man-falls-to-death-outside-luxury-building/

[AuntPatsy]

1. How many is that now? Sad."

[LiberalArkie]

3. It has been slowing down a little for some reason

[PADemD]

36. Apparently, this one makes 72.

Astonishing List of 71 Top Bankers Dead and No Natural Causes!

http://humansarefree.com/2014/12/astonishing-list-of-71-top-bankers-dead.html

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Vile.

The kid was 29.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. That post went down 4-3.

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A good start? I've had posts hidden for FAR less. I hope there is some fairness here.

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Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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Explanation: I don't know if wishing death on someone with no facts but their job is against the TOS - but it probably should be. El Bryanto
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Explanation: "A good start" is the punchline of an old "Lawyer joke" that could be applied to bankers. Yes, it's insensitive, but not all that bad. Alerter is using this alert to complain about having posts hidden? This is not Meta.

[Sgt Preston]

24. They even censor Rasmussen polls around here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141105029

[LanternWaste]

31. I often censor my own speech dependent on place, time, audience, etc...

I often censor my own speech dependent on place, time, audience, etc...

You may wish to add additional qualifiers to your premise.

[jtuck004]

8. Thieving bank$ter/donors and their political lapdogs kill and maim hundreds of thousands of kids

every year just in this country. These babies and children live in poverty while the wealthy and powerful have removed opportunity so their parents must work full time to enrich the overstuffed lives of greedy, grasping financiers, helped along by policies of this and previous administrations. It's well-documented, and there is even funny stuff out there about it. Read about it in TImothy "Killer" Geithner's book "Stress Test", here, or see voters laugh at his face on national tv when he tries to spin it otherwise, here.

...
The man — whom police did not immediately identify — was from a wealthy family in Westchester County, sources said.
He had apparently become very successful on his own....

On his fucking own. If you don't count the dead bodies and ruined lives behind investment bankers, sure.

You remember "Do not ask for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee'? Sometimes the bell is just the phone, and it's Karma calling.

There is an entire industry of thieving financiers who do nothing except take from working people with an entire governement creating policies that have about 100 million Americans in servitude for the rest of their lives, with virtually no way out.

That pegs the Vile-O-Meter, as far as I am concerned.

I concern myself with my neighbors and not some selfish dead bank$ter. He made bad choices - but he didn't spend 20 years in the justice system, which is much more likely if he wasn't a privileged white guy.

That's not just my opinion, that's my experience living in this country. Yours will probably vary.

[Lucky Luciano]

12. You must be a hoot at parties.

[jtuck004]

13. Ever seen a hungry child in seizures? Parents work, can't make enough for all the meals they need?

The humor you want is out there, Funny Lucky. I bet you could find it - you sound talented that way. lol

[cosmicone]

16. Investment bankers are not identical

Some investment bankers actually invest in startups and become wealthy by creating assets like Google, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook and Twitter.

Elon Musk and Tesla would be no where without investment bankers taking the risk.

Yes, there are some investment bankers that buy companies and break them down for profit or fund mergers that cause loss of jobs but a majority are not into that.

Show me one poor country with hungry children that doesn't wish they had investment bankers to bring their entrepreneurs to market and employ their people.

You are painting with a broad brush my friend.

[phil89]

26. He wasn't a kid, he was 29

and you don't get a luxury apartment in NYC by doing the right thing and treating people honestly and fairly.

[Lucky Luciano]

30. I often call people in their 20s kids because they are still very inexperienced.

I know the building he lived in. I looked at an apartment there once. It is a standard Manhattan high rise - not special. The rents are only a few hundred above the median Manhattan rent - though he was going for a discount by choosing to live in the less desirable financial district.

He is not some big swinging dick banker most likely - those guys would be living in a much better residence that they own.

[hill2016]

43. this is a rental building

he didn't own his apartment.

a one BR is about $4k (according to their website), which is normal for Manhattan.

[awoke_in_2003]

34. if she hadn't said it...

I would have

[BlueJazz]

4. Is the SUV ok ??

[The Stranger]

10. I was going to ask about the guardrail.

[slow trombone sound]

[BlueJazz]

17. You know you're going straight to hell for that.

I'll welcome you in...

[onehandle]

6. For those thinking that this is a banker that sank the world economy...

...this guy was 29 years old and was probably still in school when most of that went down.

Probably personal problems, mental issues, substance abuse, or a combination of these.

[jwirr]

20. You are right about him not being involved. But don't forget many of us are still feeling the pain.

[FrodosPet]

32. So does that make it a GOOD thing?

I guess it is OK to have bloodlust as long as it is "the right people" dying.



Yes, a lot of bankers should have went to jail over the fraud of the subprime crisis, and for other dirty deals. But wishing death on someone just because they are a banker is just as sick as anything the right wing keyboard commandos spew.

for another life, and ALL the lives, who die prematurely.

[jwirr]

41. Your words not mine.

[phil89]

27. He was still part of the problem.

do people go into banking to help their fellow person?

[Caijoe]

29. Not so sure

Probably personal problems, mental issues, substance abuse, or a combination of these.

Or he was escorted off, this story smells. Sounds like this kid had a lot to live for. He just gets back from vacation and does this? Looks like another in the long list of bankers who have been suicided the last couple years.

[magical thyme]

38. "most of what went down" is still going down

The banking "reforms" were inadequate to start with and watered way down.

And they have a new game in town...the banksters bought up many of those foreclosures on the cheap and are now playing landlord.

Oh, and bundling and selling "subprime" rental properties in the same way they bundled and sold "subprime" mortgages.

It's just a matter of time before their latest real estate bubble bursts and the trash what remains of the economy for good.

[byronius]

9. Richard Cory.

Richard Cory

By Edwin Arlington Robinson


Whenever Richard Cory went down town,

We people on the pavement looked at him:

He was a gentleman from sole to crown,

Clean favored, and imperially slim.


And he was always quietly arrayed,

And he was always human when he talked;

But still he fluttered pulses when he said,

"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.


And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—

And admirably schooled in every grace:

In fine, we thought that he was everything

To make us wish that we were in his place.


So on we worked, and waited for the light,

And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;

And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,

Went home and put a bullet through his head.

[jtuck004]

14. Thank you.

1897

The composition of the poem, while the United States economy was still suffering from the severe depression of the Panic of 1893 and during which people often subsisted on day-old bread, alluded to in the poem's prominence of poverty and wealth, and foodstuffs.

-wiki

[elleng]

22. Thanks.

Reminded me of Spoon River Anthology, which I had in a beautiful hardcover editin. Haven't seen it in years, so ordering a replacement.

[HERVEPA]

28. Spoon River by the late great Steve Goodman

[wordpix]

35. I was thinking much the same - how about children who have no roof and

go to sleep hungry every night? How about homeless people? This guy had everything to live for.

[Ford_Prefect]

11. My guess is he had guilty knowledge of current activities.

Some of the recent pattern of deaths in the investment sector were not all that old either.

More worrisome is the possibility that he may be a fore-runner of trends about to arrive.

[jwirr]

15. I am in a forgiving mood this morning. I think these finacial people who have been killing

themselves are large in one way but just like us in another. They get in over their heads - I was in that position not too long ago - and do not see a way out. And once you are feeling down it seems worse.

The rich have a very hard time understanding what is going on down here on the bottom but many of us have been in a hole without any foreseeable way out so maybe we are in a better place to see where this young man was coming from.

[cosmicone]

18. May he rest in peace and fine solace for his tormented soul.

[Aristus]

19. Typical. Some over-worked blue-collar guy is going to have to clean up the mess

that rich asshole left behind...

[Depaysement]

21. Close to my office

It is a gruesome way to die. I feel sorry for the flagwaver and the woman in the car. Seeing violent, bloody death in person is an experience I wish on no one; killing scars everyone it touches.

Believe it or not, many wealthy, "successful" people in New York are quite lonely. Excessive wealth is a disease.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. For all we know the guy thought he could fly.

[tularetom]

33. I have a finite amount of compassion and lately I've been spending a lot of it

On people who have lost their livelihood, health, home or their life due to the activities of investment bankers.

I don't have much left for this guy.

[Baitball Blogger]

37. Putting aside the fact that he's a banker,

Seriously, I'm concerned by the number of young people who are killing themselves. Many of them, like this kid, had the toughest part behind them. What is going on with our society, that kids are making it to the top and still feeling depressed?

[Bucky]

39. He was successful only by society's standards. I wonder what haunted him to compel this action.

Was it some error? Some lack of self control? Drugs? Rejection? Unfulfilled expectations of self that his success in life so far had failed to live up to? Perhaps a chemical imbalance in his head?

He took his reasons with him. His life, which could have mattered so much, will no longer add to the world--for good or for ill.

What a sad moment; what a sad comment on the human condition that our society didn't offer him any better alternatives--or at least offered him none that he recognized.

[BeyondGeography]

40. ID'd

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-29/thomas-hughes-moelis-co-banker-dies-at-29-in-building-fall

Well-to-do kid from Westchester County, Northwestern Class of 2009. Lots of coke found at the apartment, per the NY Post (they had a "Wolf of Wall St. style" party there last night, if we're to believe them). A man with a briefcase also jumped off the Williamsburg Bridge this morning onto Delancey Street. These are very sad stories.

[sofa king]

42. Is "banker rain" part of "global warming?"