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Explosion on the upper east side.
Vercades
Member Posts: 1,065
Yeah, just heard bout it, strange how CNN's Larry King was near the area when it exploded. Heard him talk about the NY Times building being close to it. Strange..
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wait what happened?
I hope some day we can all put aside our racisms and prejudices and just laugh at people
Sig by a friend of mine with the name of *Joker*
Too bad you're parents didn't emphasize morality during childhood.
Maybe you could think about getting some therapy and pick that key human attribute up for the sake of the rest of us.
Too bad you're parents didn't emphasize morality during childhood.
Maybe you could think about getting some therapy and pick that key human attribute up for the sake of the rest of us.
welcum 2 teh interweb dewd
On the moon, nerds have their pants pulled down and they are spanked with moon rocks!
monk you know gargaling with draino is good for your health. human compasion is still needed even on the "internet" interweb wtf is that last i knew it was the internet.
oh sorry monk thought you where calling him a dweb your spelling needs work cause most people still only read english/what ever national language anyone speeks. but mostly english on these boards. damn people using 4 instead of spelling four or for grrrr.
Officials probe suicide attempt in NYC blast
'Distinct possibility' doctor in messy divorce caused explosion that hurt 15
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NEW YORK - Authorities were
investigating whether a doctor who survived the explosion of a four-story home
on Manhattan’s Upper East Side might have caused the blast rather than sell the
home as part of a divorce judgment in his ex-wife’s favor.
A police official with direct
knowledge of the case told The Associated Press that Dr. Nicholas Bartha, 66,
had recently contemplated suicide in a rambling e-mail to his ex-wife:
“When you read this ... your life
will change forever. You deserve it. You will be transformed from gold digger to
ash and rubbish digger. You always wanted me to sell the house. I always told
you I will leave the house only if I am dead.”
The official spoke on condition of
anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
The morning explosion hurled
fireballs high into the sky and left the upscale block covered in bricks, broken
glass and splintered wood. Authorities said at least 15 people were injured,
including five civilians and 10 firefighters.
The doctor was rescued after
yelling up to rescuers while buried in the wreckage, fire officials said. Bartha
and one passer-by suffered severe injuries; the remaining injuries were
minor.
Heavy black smoke rose high above
the landmark, 19th-century building on 62nd Street between Park and Madison
Avenues, a few blocks from Central Park.
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NBC: Building owner was in messy
divorce
Suicide attempt 'a
distinct possibility'
Fire Chief Nicholas Scoppetta said
authorities were looking into the possibility that the blast was the result of a
suicide attempt, calling it “a distinct possibility.”
Bartha had recently lost a $4
million judgment in the divorce case.
According to a 2005 appellate
court opinion, the doctor had “intentionally traumatized” his Jewish wife, who
was born in Nazi-occupied Holland, by posting “swastika-adorned articles and
notes” around their home. The opinion also said Bartha had “ignored her need for
support and assistance while she was undergoing surgery and treatment for breast
cancer.”
Cordula Bartha was granted the
divorce “on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment,” according to the opinion,
which also says her husband “systematically cut off her access to marital funds
and credit as a means of psychological abuse.”
In a petition filed this
year by Cordula Bartha, she hinted at looming troubles and asked that deputies
remove Nicholas Bartha from the residence. “I have no doubt that (Nicholas
Bartha) will ensconce himself in the marital residence and refuse to leave it
after the auction is held. He has said many times that he intends to ’die in my
house.”’
The building was worth nearly $5
million based on a 2004 assessment, and was to be sold at auction to pay the
judgment against Bartha.
An attorney who represented Bartha
in his divorce said his former client considered the house “his pride and
joy.”
“Faced with possibly losing it, he
couldn’t handle the pressure,” Ira Garr said on Fox News Channel’s “On the
Record with Greta Van Susteren.” Garr said he stopped representing Bartha after
the doctor seemed to lose interest in pushing further with the appeal of his
divorce judgment.
Attorneys for 64-year-old Cordula
Bartha issued a statement: “Ms. Bartha cannot at this time withstand the
additional burden of the media microscope on this personal tragedy. Ms. Bartha
and her family are deeply saddened and terribly upset by today’s
occurrence.”
Power company Consolidated Edison
said an employee had been in the basement of an adjacent building responding to
a complaint about a smell of gas at the time of the blast. The employee was
unhurt.
The utility had been at the Bartha
building June 8 after a routine check found a gas leak on a pipe in the
basement. The gas was shut off, and Nicholas Bartha was asked to get the pipe
fixed, spokesman Joe Petta said. The gas was turned back on after the utility
ensured the leak was fixed.
The building housed two doctors’
offices. Authorities said a nurse who was supposed to open one of the offices
arrived late, narrowly missing the explosion.
Bartha was apparently the only
person who lived in the building, Scoppetta said.
TV host Larry King, who had been
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13801112/in his hotel room nearby, described the explosion to CNN as sounding like a bomb
and feeling like an earthquake. “I’ve never heard a sound like that,” King
said.
He wanted to go out with a bang?