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New York Investment Banker Jumps To His Death From Luxury Downtown Building
Yesterday, New Yorkers walking by the Ocean Luxury Rental apartment building at 1 West St around 10:40am, were greeted with a gruesome sight: a 29-year-old man had just jumped to his death from the 24th floor.
unclear ID apparent suicide Traffic to Man Bridge on FDR. @NYPD wanted me gone @NYPDAlerts http://t.co/e0K0hfCcw3 pic.twitter.com/cgHdH013eh
— Todd Maisel (@ToddMaisel) May 28, 2015
Battery Place near the Tunnel is jammed. Jumper down at 17 Battery Pl @NYPD on scene @NYDailyNews pic.twitter.com/jEa6zm8YD1
— Todd Maisel (@ToddMaisel) May 28, 2015
According to initial reports, the man landed on a car that was driving toward the Battery Tunnel at the time. He was pronounced DOA at the scene.
Today, we learn that the tragic incident was merely the latest banker suicide, when according to the NY Post the still jumper was the latest in a long series of investment bankers who have decided to take their own life.
The 29-year-old man has been identified as Thomas J Hughes. The youngest of three brothers, Thomas was educated at the $52,000 a year Canterbury School in Milford, Connecticut and graduated with a degree in economics at Northwestern University where he was on the Varsity squash team before heading to Wall St and getting a job with Citibank
Most recently he was an associate at investment bank Moelis.
Hughes 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, in what appears to have been a premeditated suicide.
The man’s body was mangled by the impact, leaving one of the vehicle’s passengers horrified, witnesses said.
“I went outside, and the woman in the car was screaming, ‘I didn’t know where he came from!’ ” said Hans Peler, 48, a manager at the building’s parking garage. “It happened right in front of our guy who waves cars in with the flag. He was so shaken up, I told him to go home.”
A spokeswoman at Moelis & Company shared her condolences according to the Daily Mail: "We are saddened by the news of Tom's death and send our sincere condolences to his family and friends at this very sad time. "Tom was a talented and valued team member and a positive force in our firm. He will be greatly missed."
John Hughes, the father of the investment banker, said that he fears his son turned to drink and drugs to cope with the stress of work. He said Thomas had been under a ‘lot of pressure’ and that he even had to work on a recent holiday in the Bahamas, adding that his son was someone who "liked to work hard and liked to party" and feared that he found release in illegal drugs which turned him suicidal.
‘Thomas was a happy, jovial, successful, good looking, very sociable individual.
‘The only explanation is that I know he’s been working very hard and has been under a lot of pressure.
‘His work did not leave much time for enjoyment but that’s the nature of the assignment that he chose.
‘I also know that sometimes when one is in that environment you can turn to alcohol or other types of drugs...
‘...at a time when he was under stress he probably resorted to illegal drugs, causing this incredibly poor judgement, is probably the best I can say.
‘He must have had some problems that I was not privy to.’
Tourists in a nearby open-air bus that was stuck in traffic, saw more than they bargained for when the gruesome scene unfolded right in front of them. Then they quickly found their bearing and realized the tragedy would look perfect on their Instagram profile, and scrambled for their cellphones to snap pictures of the body, said workers at the building.
“The head hit the railing . . . Half his head is on one side of the railing, half on the other,” recalled Frank Rodriguez, 44, a handyman who was working nearby. “It’s never worth this . . . Life is too precious.”
Sources said the young banker had made several attempts to kill himself earlier in the morning, including cutting his wrists, before making the plunge.
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.
He owned his apartment in the 36-story Ocean complex, which overlooks The Battery and New York Harbor, and had just returned from a vacation in the Bahamas, sources said.
At this point we have lost count of how many bankers have taken their own lives in the past year, despite stocks rising to all time highs and an artificial "wealth effecting" environment which if nobody else, benefits the banker class. We dread to think what happens to New York's pavements once the central planners finally lose control.
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One down.
Not nearly enough.
Slap him with a fine.
It's been a while hasn't it? I've missed all of the bankster suicidings.
Hey, ease off. Maybe he had mental problems and it's not nice to make fun of the handicapped. For all we know he coulda been a psycho or sociopath. And forgot to take his coke and Dom Perignon meds.
He was a successful bankster so it's kind of a given that he was a sociopath.
Jump in May and go away.
Are they sure the driver didn't just hit a banker turned squeege man?
Gravity is one of the few laws that still applies to the bankster elite.
And yet they still can't resist the temptation to try and break that law too.
We pushed some folks.
YAAAAAYYY - he did God's work!
why do they commit suicide? didn't this young person know that when they are completely underwater with no chance at solvency that yellen rides in and bails out all and any losses and promotes this person to riches beyond their wildest dreams?
Is it still taking your life when someone else throws you out the window?
Nope its called murder and my guess is that is what has been happening.
They should put warning signs on sidewalks near buildings where bankers live... Walking in NYC is getting dangerouse
No open casket for this poor sod.
What was the last thing to go through his mind before he hit the car? His asshole.
Always nice to see another example of a Good Banker out in the world and hitting the streets.
https://youtu.be/IQxf4odCz9A
"Half his head is on one side of the railing, half on the other"
Looks like he was well diversified all the way to the end.
He was noted as being successful by his own merit.
He worked his way up from the ground floor to the corner office in this place... . Best of all, he would drop by on occasion for some face time with the lower level employees.. But because of his position in the futures division, he was visibly split between the two groups..... He knew what was going on in the firm, mainly by keeping an ear on the street. Sometimes two.
But you know what they say, be nice to people on the way to the top, because they're the ones who will be there to pick your severed remains up when you come down.
It's important to remember that Satan enjoys anal sex, so please try to avoid it. Thank you.
Hope it becomes trendy again.
"... American Express President Ed Gilligan died suddenly Friday after getting sick on an overseas flight to New York City.
The 55-year-old executive was returning on a corporate jet from a business trip to Toyko when he suddenly passed out, Amex said.
The plane made an emergency landing in the U.S. but attempts to revive Gilligan were in vain, officials said. The cause of death was not immediately known. ..."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/american-express-president-ed-gilligan-dead-55-article-1.2240456
~""Half his head is on one side of the railing, half on the other""~
This is what happens when you can't own a decent gun in your city. When it's time to check out, you have to hurl yourself over the precipice and spatter the folks below. If he'd been able to own a firearm, he could have made a nice clean job of it instead of this. Hey, don't these banker types know about nailguns anyway?
...in what appears to have been a premeditated suicide.
Premeditated suicide... really ?? As opposed to what ? Is there such a thing as an accidental suicide ?
There is, just ask David Carradine....well that would be a little tough but you catch the drift
that was twisted, so was the belt i believe
They might two of 'em going by the picture.
I thought it was illegal to commit suicide in the Big Apple?
not @ MK U
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Soldiers go overseas, destroy people lives and come back with a broken mind... Bankers destroy people lives nad get their minds broken... A pattern maybe? Just curious if there is a suicide rate per profession research somewhere...
I'm pretty sure the bankster class began with broken minds.
Sociopathic behaviors don't manifest overnight, they are usually a long time in the making.
Screw these scum who think that life is not worth living if it is not done in a luxury condo. Who cannot live as a common man. You live as you are in a luxury condo, you live as you are in a prison, you crawl through the dirt and mud when it is dirty and muddy. But a man always lives as he is, where he is.
Who cannot live as a common man. You live as you are in a luxury condo, you live as you are in a prison, you crawl through the dirt and mud when it is dirty and muddy. But a man always lives as he is, where he is.
Who cannot live as a common man? That is easy. Those wih ambiiton aspire towards being as uncommon as possible. While psychopathy is present in some with ambition, that is not true for most. Most "Mom and Pop" owned industries are lead by the ambitious who seek to better themselves, and their employees, through hard and honest labor.
Communists seek equality and strive for mediocrity That is a socialists' dream.
May God forbid that I live within the squalor of a prison, much more an open air prison. That is not anymore the life of a man as it is a caged and trained animal, deprived of his God given Liberties and Freedom, deservedly a times, but not so much deserved by the current Middle Class of America..
Just because this banker may have been a psychopath does not mean that all ambitious people are. (Who knows why he did what he did? He may have been jilted by the love of his life.)
And as for living with luxury? There is nothing inherently wrong with living the good life. What may be wrong is the method on how some have reaped ill gotten gain at others' expense. If one is both honest and ambitious, seeking to produce and to enhance their own lives and the lives of others, then what harm have they done? THAT IS TO BE ADMIRED AND ASPIRED AFTER. In fact for the prosperous man whose intent is to see others prosper the luxury is deserved.
No men do not always live as they are. Many advance and live better as they gain wealth from their labor. Life is dynamic and not static. There is not station set for a real man. A real man is vibrant and alive, filled with ambition, seeking to better himself and those around him. Only servants and the beaten, those lacking ambition, ascribe to that attitude.
WE have too many socialists posting here who are posing as lovers of Liberty, wolves in sheep's clothing. You expose yourself.
A downarrow? Not enough balls to reply?
What is new? Just another empty shell of a man who cannot put up a fight.
In the end, his mind was split.
bipolar
His Boss told him to "go pound the pavement" for clients ... and didn't realize Thomas was on the rather literal side of thinking.
Ever read Amelia Bedelia?
DaddyO
Was he planning on blabbing about the manipulation in the PM markets?
He landed right on his blabber-mouth.
Dead cats don't bounce.
Wonder if there is more to this one, or was it just a suicide. Never know these days.
Perhaps he aspied a loose dime
More likely that he threatened to drop a dime. . .
Wire was invented when two jews fought over a penny...
ba-da-bump-ting!
So, three banking institutions were carrying life insurance on this guy? New definition of "living dangerously."
I'm trying to think of a joke where the car's passenger might be somebody the bankers fear but I can't think of a single person.
They've all been bought.
NEXT!!!!?
Sociopaths very rarely commit suicide. How many members of Congress have committed suicide? He either had a conscience and/or was pushed.
If we were placing bets I'd say he was pushed. Or thrown.
Jump You Fuckers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yge311sFhC8
All your Banksters are belong to us.
Ban concrete and asphalt.
De blowme will now fine jumpers 1 million per dive
I guess I don't understand the suicide bent of these guys. Personally, if I were resolved to do such a thing, I'd make fiendishly elaborate plans to take out all the banksters, Wall Street elites I could in my immediate sphere.
This seems like a " take one for the team" move. Like the Kamikaze, only one plane at a time made the strike for the honor of the pilot. Made it easier to shoot down. Some things have more effect en masse.
Miffed
Are you suggesting a mass suicide of bankers might be more effective?
I am dubious, they'll have to prove it!!
You may be missing the overriding joke, it is referred to as "suicide" much in the same manner that Philip Merrill's death was called a "suicide" (he was head of the Ex-Im Bank during the time $8.7 billion in Iraqi oil funds went missing, and was to meet with a journalist the next week to discuss it --- not implying he was involved in any way).
Supposedly Mr. Merrill, a 70 plus year old man, in poor physical condition and overweight, while on his yacht in the Chesapeake Bay did blow off most of his head with a shotgun, then pick up a 200-lb anchor and dive into the water, swimming 12 miles away, where Mr. Merrill is supposed to have weighted down his body with said anchor.
You see, the only real item in effect from the Dodd-Frank "reform" legislation was BOLI, or Banker Owned Life Insurance, whereby the banks and private banks (PE firms, etc.) can purchase life insurance on the very own employees, then they mysteriously die and the banksters can have even bigger bonuses!
In researching BOLI I came across the story of H. H. Holmes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes
He was a serial killer in the late 1800s who used insurance in the same way.
More than a hundred years later, criminals are still criminal.
I'll bet he was either over-dosed or withdrawing...he had a bad drug in the Bahamas...or some such.
Gruesome....
Traumatic Ladyboy encounter at Club Med.
It's a crying game...
ROFL, you're too witty!
Hey, 813kml, I thought we agreed not to mention The Incident. Let's just let bygones be bygones, eh? The important thing is that everyone's OK, and the nuns aren't going to sue.
" The head hit the railing ...."
So they know he is [was] an investment banker and he 'just returned from the Bahamas' but they claim he's "unidentified?"
...smells fishy.
Perhaps his name is not being released until his family is notified?
<---Dead cat bounce
<---Dead cat splatter
technically, only half his head "hit the railing". of course i'm far from being a rocket scientist, but under some forensic science, the other half maybe slid off from impact. just sayin. please correct me if i'm wrong or simply don't reply to this sarcasm ;)
"wealthy on his own".....sure he was
NY Post said his family is from Westchester or LI and there is money there.
This was the best part of the story:
Frank Rodriguez, 44, a handyman who was working nearby. “It’s never worth this . . . Life is too precious.”
Sounds like the handyman gets it more than a banker living in a luxury apartment. Unless - the bankster was thrown out the window.
Maybe that handyman saw more then hes saying. Sounds to me theres a story.
Ya know, after I saw that interview of Mikey Morell, former deputy director of cluelessness at the CIA, with Chris Matthews on his Hardball show, where lightweight Matthews reamed Mikey a new one, I was feeling might depressed and had thoughts of suicide.
I thought, why the fuck does the CIA continue to hire such complete and total spineless fuckwits?
It was really depressing. . .
Uh oh . . . here goes, I'm going to jum.....
well connected monkey does well, goes richard cory?
forth guy from Northwestern University:
Dueker
Broeksmit
Talley (think he was death by nailgun, ugh?)
and now Hughes
Could there be a pattern or do only suicides attend Northwestern?
Fine his estate, for having increased his Carbon Footprint/Splatprint in the fall.
Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why it took soooo long to resume banker nail gunning, jumping.?
Birdman
Landed on a Car ? Distance from building to car ? maybe 14 feet. Jumped or thrown ?
Season 4 of Heroes, fall/push/jump...
He had to be running on the roof top to make it that far or chased off. They do not even try to make it look like a suicide.
Sources said the young banker had made several attempts to kill himself earlier in the morning, including cutting his wrists, before making the plunge.
I don't know. cutting wrists wasn't fast enough or was that just to add to appearance of a suicide?
either way, it is a lesson for all: be careful of the company you keep, spiritually or physically.
WilliamBanzai7 you owe me a new keyboard as mine is now covered in coffee (it came out my nose).
A 'Trigger Alert' would be nice :)
"Sources said the young banker had made several attempts to kill himself earlier in the morning, he started on the second floor, when that didn't do the job, he moved up to the 3rd floor, and so on until he finally suceeded in hitting the magic 24th floor." I wonder if he had his student loan paid off?
aw come on Tylers, that pic wasn't politically incorrect! i've been hangin around here for over 5 years, and lurked for a couple before that. when do i get to post pics like the Grand Master William? huh?
Actually, I think it's sad.
Those who jump do so either because they have a conscience or because someone made them jump, Literally: the fall guys.
Meanwhile the real fuckers are the ones still standing and laughing all the way to... well, you guessed it.
He's got a list,
And checking it twice,
He already knows who's naughty or nice,
Drives them insane to the point of their vice,
...sing along everybody!
A graduate of Northwestern University?
So, I can't recall. . . is this the third or fourth bankster who graduated from there on the Dead Banker File?
They could be running out of alumni if this keeps up. . .
Wonder if Citigroup still had a life insurance policy active on him?
(One of the other former Northwestern grads got it with the nail gun! Perhaps the fall was less painful than shooting himsel many times in the head?)
It IS nice to see Tyler post a "feel good" story like this from time to time.
He believes he can fly.
It's merely an empirical demonstration of gravitational effects. Now move along, nothing to see here.....
And some believe they are "Doing God's work".
Which might be true, if the thinking is, that they pick winners and losers, and decide the fate of nations.
Why ???
u meant....
"what took him so long....?"
We have a 0900-0915 am opening in our guillotine schedule.
"Why" not sooner? you mean.
I love the smell of a dead banker in the morning.
What do these bankers know that us Goyim bitchez don't know???
@TalkTolind
What do these bankers know that us Goyim bitchez don't know???
The Ground is HARD!
it's what they think they know...........they think it's soft
The true size of the derivative losses maybe?
organized crime derivitive losses with Bahama connections maybe ?--with threaten the family options ---or the threat option was taken out on him when his Bahama connection failed to produce the advertized benifits maybe?
He jumped...with help.
Anyword on how long it takes managment to update http://ocean1west.com/availabilities/popup_info.php?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=410&width=420&modal=true
Great, now the bankers are littering too.
Even in his last act he negatively impacted people's lives.
I disagree, everyone positively loves a good rubbernecking.
You're right. We can all laugh at another banker jumping to end his "pain" but in the end it's just tragic. Some people die from cancer at the age of 5. Fuck that motherfucker, I want to give his years to someone else.
Gene Burnett and the Wall Street anthem, "Jump You Fuckers". Lets all hoist a beer and sing it tonight. Its just too bad he didn't land on Blankfein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yge311sFhC8
Gravity is a harsh mistress...
"plunge" ----> thrown??
He thought the PPT would save him.
On a serious note though, I hope there weren't any kids around.
Moar to follow.....
the only thing that makes sense
is dude took the "bond king's" advice and shorted german bunds
hit a guardrail, awesome. even in death the fucker didn't give a damn about anyone else.
Paging Investment Banker #49? Paging Investment Banker #49? The elevator to the roof is now available. Please take your place in the lineup to the Penthouse suit.
I love a story with a happy ending. It's a little know fact that gravity works stronger at 10:40 a.m. in New York.
Been a while since we had one of these. Did they find the whistle he was blowing?
Even though he was a banker...it was prolly a woman behind the jump....
Guilt sure can "weigh" you down eh?
When will we see Bernanke jump? And the rest of the Fed heads.
There lies an honorable man.
I thought the narrative was "the Banksters have it so good because they've plundered the masses"?
Or is this the "banker suicides are the canary in the coal mine for the financial system" narrative?
You seem kind of dumb, I'm sorry if didn't understand what was the message.
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Jump! You Fuckers!
Scream louder, you little bankster faggot. It helps the demon assraping you finish faster.
Count yourself lucky. It doesn't work on earth when bankster faggots like you assrape people who work for a living.
That's what you get for believing right and wrong are defined by what you can get away with on earth and suicide is the ultimate bailout scam.
Good news is your douchebag drinking and fuckbuddies from the office are right behind you in line. Always room for one more in hell.
This is not bullish for nail gun guy, he needs the biz. Ban suicides and cash
He should've strapped on a GoPro
Such a shame and a waste of human life -- the banker part I mean.
What the hell is this "MOAR" you obtuse morons continually speak of?
Is it part of the Zero-speak lexicon of absurd inanities - right there beside "bitchez"?
We're also rather fond of boating accidents.
That's rayciss.
The guy you stole your name from knows the answer; but since you're not him, you can go fuck yourself.
I'm sorry, you're boring as Slovakia the pie on a summer day.
All these words are belong to us.
Jumping is fun part - stopping is the tough part - go bitchez
Movin movin movin keep them banksters jumpin.
Hope I can catch a photo of one in mid-air this summer while I'm in NYC.
These aren't the level of banker's we really want.
I guess a nail gun would be a little too obvious in a NYC apartment
My fiance is 31 year old R.N. in cardiology. She was treating a recently retired investment banker. He told her he felt bad because the millenials got the shaft job while the banking sector got all the privalages from government.
He told her most of the people in the US are now wage slaves. An unusual candid admission from someone like this. Perhaps he was getting concerned about the long-term consequences...
On another note I was at the gym with my future father in law that is pretty wealthy in the property rental business. He was complaining about the shoddy services corporations are providing and how he has to spend several hours a month dealing with it.
A shame our species seems to only react after real pain washes up on shore instead of being more proactive.
I take it she didn't have the chance to step on the vent hose.
..or inject air into his IV line.
Less lampposts needed when the populous gets some balls
Maybe he was just trying to get back to his car before it got towed?
US says there are more to come
U.S. warns G7 of global economy 'accident' without Greece dealhttp://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-warns-g7-global-economy-141221826.html?b...
Any banker that you have to clean up using a spoon and a stick is a good banker.
Knew a guy many years back who was the custodian for a large hotel. As a high profile, high rise with a top floor outdoor cocktail lounge, it was a frequent place chosen for dramatic suicides where you could also get one last drink to stiffen the nerves just before you lept. It was always this poor guy 's job to clean up after the body was taken away. Out of morbid curiosity one day, I asked him what did the victim looked like after the fall. He said I should picture a very ripe peach being dropped from 10 floors up. I got the mental image and never asked him about this work again.
Also ... never thought of peaches in the same way again either!
You just gotta give him a 10 for execution
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“The head hit the railing . . . Half his head is on one side of the railing, half on the other,” recalled Frank Rodriguez, 44, a handyman who was working nearby
I love how he was from a wealthy family, but was said to be "successful on his own"...
So your parents paid for you to get into and go to an overpriced ivy league school. Then they used their business and/or family connections to get you a job at a bulge bracket bank. And all this spoiled little prick had to do is show up to work and not fuck things up...?
Yeah..."successful on his own".
Good riddance.
And the building he jumped from: "he didn't build that!"
Sad but true - the markets can break even a hard man.