Wall Street executive dies after falling from New York apartment

[liberal life]

A high-flying Wall Street executive plunged to his death from the window of his fifth-floor apartment in New York last night.

Keith Mastronardi, 31, had been smoking and drinking heavily and was trying to open a window to air the room when he slipped and fell at about 10.25pm, according to police.

Mrs Mastronardi, who had also been drinking heavily, became hysterical and had to be carried out of the Upper East Side apartment on a stretcher, according to police sources.

The Wall Street Journal reports she was then taken to the New York Presbyterian Hospital for psychological evaluation.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1373240/Wall-Street-executive-Keith-Mastronardi-dies-falling-apartment-smoking.html#ixzz1IaUp8kl7



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[blondeatlast]

1. My sympthies to his family and friends. nt

[Nye Bevan]

2. Not exactly "high-flying" (nt)

[liberal life]

6. then they ended the story with....

"Mr Mastronardi went to school in Mineola, New York, where he was state champion in the triple jump for the Catholic High School Athletic Association.

He was also triple jump champion for three out of his four years at the University of Chicago, and still holds the indoor record, according to the Wall Street Journal."



Kinda twisted






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[Thunderstruck]

13. I should be ashamed of myself because...

your post brought me to tears LMAO!

I'm going to lose a point with God on this one.

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. I'm afraid I'll be spending a couple of years in Purgatory for my initial reaction, too... nt

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[malaise]

19. That was my first thought

I won't mourn for anyone on Wall Street

[Liberal Veteran]

4. Must. Resist. Urge.

[matt819]

26. I couldn't

check post 25

[leftstreet]

5. What, no golden parachute?

:spank:

[1monster]

7. Well, golden parachutes are good for some things, but ... not that.

Remember too, you don't want a golden life preserver when your ship goes down in the ocean either. You'll sink very fast in one of those.

[liberal life]

8. Is it wrong to laugh at that?

:rofl:





http://fucorporatemedia.com/

[bobbolink]

11. !!!

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[L0oniX]

20. +1

[quinnox]

39. self deleted

I said something I shouldn't have.

[Junkdrawer]

9. Why do I think this may not be the whole story?

Maybe, maybe not....

[Citizen Worker]

14. Yes, this story does not pass the initial sniff test. There's more to come.

[aquart]

16. What are you smelling?

Other than how really hard it is for an adult to accidentally fall out of a window?

[hobbit709]

24. How far out from the building was the trajectory.

That determines how hard he was helped out the window.

[liberal life]

34. good point

I was thinking someone might have helped him because he knew something.

Everyone said he was such a nice guy, maybe the kind that would not go along with illegal activities when he found out what certain other individuals were up to.

[xchrom]

27. life insurance. nt

[WinkyDink]

64. The NYPD is investigating.

[Brickbat]

10. "Psychological evaluation"? Hmmm.

[Lost-in-FL]

12. "High-Flying Wall Street executive"... wow... that's for the books

Who would have thought UK's FOX News could be so morbidly insensitive... and funny. :dilemma:

[aquart]

15. "Head of exotic derivatives"????

Musta been celebrating those bonuses.

[Thunderstruck]

17. Or facing and indictment...maybe?

:shrug:

[aquart]

18. Like that would ever happen.

Seriously, they know they got away with it and they've been partying hearty ever since.

[AndyTiedye]

21. But He Created EXOTIC DERIVATIVES! Surely We Can Spare Him a Tiny Violin

:nopity:

[Cassandra]

22. Five floors isn't much of a plunge.

If he was so high-flying, why didn't he have an apartment on a higher floor?
Anyway, falling out of a sash window ain't easy.

[aquart]

28. Might have been afraid of heights. Or elevator strikes.

[matt819]

25. You know the punchline to the joke about lawyers, right?

It's a start.

Yes, I know. Extremely poor taste.

[arthritisR_US]

38. I dont know...but it sure seemed karmatic on first impression...n/t

[aquart]

29. More detail. And this is where it gets not funny.

A Wall Street trader and former college track champion fell five stories to his death after opening a window in his Upper East Side apartment so that his cigarette smoke wouldn’t bother his three sleeping children, police said.

With his children in bed, Keith Mastronardi, 31 years old, was “drinking heavily” and smoking cigarettes inside his fifth floor apartment at 340 E. 74th Street on Sunday night, police said. Just before 10:30 p.m., Mastronardi opened a bedroom window to air out the apartment. After doing so, however, he lost his balance and fell through open window, police said.

http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/04/04/wall-street-trader-dies-after-fall-from-apartment-window/

My one caveat is that he's opened that window so many times before.

Edit: Shit. The youngest is a newborn. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/wall_street_executive_heavily_fell_2eZJDTrU6YRD2rLaExrzLJ

[Myrina]

30. ... and we're sure it was cigarettes he was smoking?

:shrug:

[femrap]

32. Usually those 'high flying Wall

Street types' carry lots of life insurance because they think they're so important.

[aquart]

33. Or they have three children, one newborn.

[femrap]

45. could have both....

Life insurance is cheap for a young man....especially one that works on Wall Street.

I'd bet he has quite a bit of insurance....especially with 3 kids, one newborn.

[blondeatlast]

36. Or they have children--including a newborn. There's a grieving family

behind our amusement; I don't care if it's one of the Bush twins--I can't find this amusing.

[blondeatlast]

35. Yeah, I just can't find this at all amusing. Maybe it's because

my beloved sister has been undergoing chemo and has major, major surgery to stay her cancer. She seems to be doing well but has at least 2 more months of chemo ahead.

Death isn't so amusing when it's peeking over one's shoulder.

I have a dark sense of humor usually, but my mind went immediately to the fact that someone is grieving the loss of a loved one--and I may be doing so much sooner than I want to.

A newborn--OMG--that poor woman. ))shudder((

[liberal life]

42. I don't find the death funny, just other DUers

but I posted this because THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL THIS WAS AN ACCIDENTAL FALL!

I mentioned this story to my kid just to see initial reaction- "Right- someone pushed him"

Isn't it obvious? People do not fall out of windows when they are opening them. That is just so stupid they expect us to believe that.

His wife probably needs treatment because she saw the whole thing and they told her they would kill her children if she told anyone, and judging from what she just witnessed she knows they mean it.

I posted this hoping to raise awareness and encourage a real investigation and justice for this family.

This mother needs help. I feel horrible for her. This was not an accident, and she needs other people to fight for a real investigation. She cannot do it alone.

[StarsInHerHair]

73. electro-shock "therapy" can erase memories............I wonder in horror what

they may be doing to her.......Gitmo may be getting closer

[Liberal_in_LA]

71. +10

[Liberal_in_LA]

59. They refrained from alcohol for months because Mrs. M was pregnant, they were celebrating

after birth of baby girl. Got drunk.

[aquart]

31. Are the windows larger in the back?

[Cassandra]

76. That was my thought when I saw the picture.

How did he fall out of those windows? I have sash windows. Even all the way open, I'd have to be bent over and leaning out and even then, my feet are still on the floor. No way did he just fall out while opening the window. Also, with young children, he's required to have window guards.

[Fire1]

Delete dupe. n/t

[Fire1]

37. Awww. What a shame. n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

40. Thaaaat's a shame...

...

[bluedigger]

41. When I saw the headline:

"Wall Street executive dies after falling from" I clicked on it half expecting it to continue: "pile of money."

My sympathies to his friends and family.:blush:

[11 Bravo]

43. Wow. It's certainly instructive to see that insensitive assholes aren't confined to Free Republic.

A rich guy fell out of a window. The last five or so seconds of his life, when he knew he was going to die, were pure terror. That's some funny shit right there.

[Wait Wut]

49. A voice of reason and compassion.

Thank you.

[11 Bravo]

54. There are posters here who have no idea how poorly they reflect on this board.

Or maybe they just don't give a fuck.

[logosoco]

44. hmmm....

my daughter and son-in-law bought a house last year and my grandsons bedroom windows were at a second story level. One day I realized how easy it would be for them to fall out of the window (they are toddlers) with only a screen to stop them. So I went online to buy window guards (they were not available form the local home improvement store). Once they were in, i felt my grandsons were so much safer.
But in my "research" for the window guards, I thought I had seen something where in New York, apt. windows had to have guards on them in a home where there were children under the age of 8.

Interesting.....

[Wait Wut]

46. The comments here are disgusting.

Seriously. I don't give a damn what this guy did for a living, laughing at his death at the age of 31???

You have no right to criticize any Conservative when they were cracking jokes about the Tucson Tragedy. You're all just as sick as they are. I swear in all my life I've never seen my own side acting like this. Here? No one says a word except in encouragement.

[Incitatus]

50. Ideed. He works on Wall Street so that means he is automatically evil to some people here. nt

[aquart]

60. He did not just "work on Wall Street."

He headed a division dedicated to destroying economies: "Exotic Derivatives." I'm damn sorry that any 31-year-old man with three children to support gets so drunk he falls out what appears to be an amazingly small window, but anyone deriving his income from derivatives should be in jail in the first place.

[Wait Wut]

72. That TOTALLY makes a difference.

I guess in that case it's a damned good thing he's dead. His three children will be sooooooo fucking grateful. It's really too bad that they can't join in on the celebration of his death here on DU.

Seriously. There is NO excuse for the comments here.

The hypocrisy on this site is nauseating.

[NYC Liberal]

51. Absolutely agree.

Sometimes it amazes me.

[leftstreet]

57. I think you might be reading the thread wrong

Plenty of impoverished and working class people will die today

The M$M won't cover it

Why is that?

Why did his wealth and/or position mean his death should be in the news?

:shrug:

I think you'll find that's what the reactions in this thread are about

[Wait Wut]

70. I think you may have read my comment wrong.

I was talking about the disgusting comments made about a 31 year old father of three.

I didn't read one single comment complaining about "coverage" from the media. Trying to make lame excuses for this behavior doesn't fly.

[Safetykitten]

47. One would think they would have a window opening person. Sad.

[undeterred]

48. There was a senior who fell from a dorm window at University of Chicago

after a night of drinking. The party was held on the fifth floor of a vacant dorm and she was sitting in the window and lost her balance. Her parents sued the University- there was no good reason why a window on that floor should have been accessible for someone to sit in it with half her body outside, not to mention with a kegger and a party going on. I thought of her because this guy was an alumnus of the University of Chicago. Being smart doesn't keep you from making fatal mistakes.

[flvegan]

52. Who the fuck are some of you people?

When did I land on Glenn Beck's fucking site? Jesus. Fucking ghouls.

[Wait Wut]

56. No kidding.

31 years old and a father of three falls to his death. Tragic.
Oh...he's a banker? Well in that case it's hilarious.

Ghouls is the perfect description.

[blondeatlast]

61. There's a few humans on this thread, thank goodness. nt

[JVS]

53. What a loss.

For someone.

I guess.

[prolesunited]

55. A man is DEAD

a woman lost her husband, a newborn lost a father. I don't care what his job title was, when did you lose your compassion and humanity?

[October]

63. Really. I can't believe some of these comments. /nt

[JVS]

65. See 60 and ask yourself, do you think he gave a fuck about the lives his work ruined?

[prolesunited]

74. Doesn't matter to me. I take no joy in any man's death

whether I believe he deserved it or not. You know nothing of him or how he lived his life, just his job title, and you sit in judgment and deem him worthy of death. And I spoke of his wife and child left behind. Are they not worthy of your compassion? Or have they been tainted by simply being a part of his life?

You don't overcome hate, selfishness and evil by joining it in the gutter. Hate all you want. It just makes your heart as shriveled as theirs.

[Wait Wut]

75. Great excuse for the comments.

Such wonderfully compassionate people here. His kids deserve to be without a father.

Give it up. You and the others that are scrambling to come up with excuses for the shit comments fail miserably.

[Liberal_in_LA]

58. Father of 3 kids. They need to put some protective bars on those windows

[Dorian Gray]

62. Wow.

reading this thread made me sick to my stomach. Disgusting that anyone would crack jokes and be gleeful about a young man's death.

[Warren Stupidity]

66. Now that is what I call a leading economic indicator. nt

[Cleita]

67. Sometimes they are called sky diving lessons when

some shady collectors come around for an overdue debt. I think the wife needs to be questioned some more in case she's afraid to say what might have happened.

[FormerDittoHead]

68. The jokes here are terrible... People should know better. PLEASE - Think of better jokes! n/t

[JVS]

69. LOL