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DJ FC · 01-25-2009, 05:19 AM

I know this guy really well. He's not actually a trader, he works in our backoffice. But I used to work with him on a daily basis and have drank with him on several occasions. He aparently tried to set our NYC office on fire!

Commodities trader arrested after trying to start a fire inside 7 World Trade Center

And the fire breathing vid:

rvb breating fire!!! Video by Ryan of the Lake - MySpace Video

Ugly Bastard · 01-25-2009, 01:30 PM

Holy fuck! Like this guy's life is over. They're going to be bringing up the t-word in charges against this kid. Wow... unbelievable that you know him. We're y'all friendly and stuff? Is this surprising to you at all?

DJ FC · 01-25-2009, 03:52 PM

Yeah, I knew him really well and he lived in the same neighborhood. We might be facebook friends, I'm not sure. It wouldn't be weird to see him show up at a party, everybody loves this guy.

He was super wasted.

I think we can all imagine how in our worst moments we might have tried to light a small fire to escape an elevator when we were beyond trashed... so from this perspective it doesn't surprize me that he did it.

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 01-25-2009, 06:03 PM

that is nuts. i wonder what the hell he was planning going there at 3am trashed in the first place.

Mr. Blonde · 01-25-2009, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by George W. Bush

Yeah, I knew him really well and he lived in the same neighborhood. We might be facebook friends, I'm not sure. It wouldn't be weird to see him show up at a party, everybody loves this guy.

He was super wasted.

I think we can all imagine how in our worst moments we might have tried to light a small fire to escape an elevator when we were beyond trashed... so from this perspective it doesn't surprize me that he did it.

So true. While I can't say I'd necessarily light an elevator on fire, I also am very sober right now. We have all done incredibly stupid shit when sober (or just riled up from being rambunctious with our friends), and it just seems incredibly shitty timing/place for this guy, I feel bad for him. I'm sure the high charges will be dropped though, and they'll bring it down to like public intox, destruction of property, endangering property...who knows.

I'm curious, GWB, from that article they make your friend sound like an idiot, which he obviously is not. Even drunk off their ass or hungover, people sober up REAL quick when they know/think they're in trouble. Why do you think he's talking/acting like he is? Some sort of legal plan?

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 01-25-2009, 06:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde

they make your friend sound like an idiot, which he obviously is not.

I would have to disagree.

Mr. Blonde · 01-25-2009, 10:29 PM

Disagree with them making him sound like an idiot, or disagree with me saying he's obviously not?

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 01-25-2009, 10:42 PM

the latter

Mr. Blonde · 01-25-2009, 10:57 PM

Well, I suppose he very well could be, I just have this nasty tendency to associate people who make lots of money in field like this = really smart. You are correct though, there is booksmart/common sense.

THEINCREDIBLEdork · 01-25-2009, 11:07 PM

GWB said he wasn't a trader, said he works in the back office. Which I took as that he served coffee.

Mr. Blonde · 01-25-2009, 11:19 PM

God dammit I am failing so hard today. All around. Fuckin Aspergers.

Ugly Bastard · 01-26-2009, 12:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde

I just have this nasty tendency to associate people who make lots of money in field like this = really smart.

I think people, in general, have much less varying degrees of "smartness" than we all like to think. Like I think you can put people into basically three intelligence categories: you've got the bottom 20% that truly are just stupid; the middle 78% that almost all of us fit into, no one of us is so significantly smarter than the other than they could never hope to reach that person's level, and then there's the top 2% that truly are at an unreachable level of intelligence. It's the latter group that is mostly responsible for steering the direction of the world as we know it.

DJ FC · 01-26-2009, 12:38 AM

Don't get me wrong this guy is a little crazy and on the wild side.

Also not a genius, started off as a runner getting traders lunch and things but was good enough at that that he was offered an office job.

01-25-2009, 03:52 PM	#3 (permalink)
DJ FC MURICAN Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Virginia Posts: 5,136 Internets: 253094	Yeah, I knew him really well and he lived in the same neighborhood. We might be facebook friends, I'm not sure. It wouldn't be weird to see him show up at a party, everybody loves this guy. He was super wasted. I think we can all imagine how in our worst moments we might have tried to light a small fire to escape an elevator when we were beyond trashed... so from this perspective it doesn't surprize me that he did it.
	The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them. Last edited by DJ FC; 01-25-2009 at 03:54 PM.

01-25-2009, 06:03 PM	#4 (permalink)
THEINCREDIBLEdork Emperor Meow Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 9,352 Internets: 290966	that is nuts. i wonder what the hell he was planning going there at 3am trashed in the first place.
	#YOLO

01-25-2009, 10:29 PM	#7 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	Disagree with them making him sound like an idiot, or disagree with me saying he's obviously not?
	Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. ― Terence McKenna

01-25-2009, 10:42 PM	#8 (permalink)
THEINCREDIBLEdork Emperor Meow Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 9,352 Internets: 290966	the latter
	#YOLO

01-25-2009, 11:07 PM	#10 (permalink)
THEINCREDIBLEdork Emperor Meow Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 9,352 Internets: 290966	GWB said he wasn't a trader, said he works in the back office. Which I took as that he served coffee.
	#YOLO

01-25-2009, 01:30 PM	#2 (permalink)
Ugly Bastard Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 13,643 Internets: 247330	Holy fuck! Like this guy's life is over. They're going to be bringing up the t-word in charges against this kid. Wow... unbelievable that you know him. We're y'all friendly and stuff? Is this surprising to you at all?

01-25-2009, 10:57 PM	#9 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	Well, I suppose he very well could be, I just have this nasty tendency to associate people who make lots of money in field like this = really smart. You are correct though, there is booksmart/common sense.

01-25-2009, 11:19 PM	#11 (permalink)
Mr. Blonde Spice Master Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 17,969 Internets: 284106	God dammit I am failing so hard today. All around. Fuckin Aspergers.

01-26-2009, 12:38 AM	#13 (permalink)
DJ FC MURICAN Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Virginia Posts: 5,136 Internets: 253094	Don't get me wrong this guy is a little crazy and on the wild side. Also not a genius, started off as a runner getting traders lunch and things but was good enough at that that he was offered an office job.
	The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

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