Years ago we read about a psychologist discussing how almost all suicides off the Golden Gate Bridge jumped off the side facing San Francisco. The psychologist was pondering what the suicides were trying to say and whom they were relating to. Someone in the audience ruined this bout of deep thinking by asking a simple question: “Which side of the Golden Gate Bridge is the sidewalk on?”
In related news, almost no one believed for a minute former hedge fund manager Samuel Israel killed himself by jumping off the Bear Mountain bridge. It’s just not a suicidal place. Now that his body has failed to wash up, authorities are certain that he faked his suicide and went on the lam. He’s not, of course, the first hedge fund manager to make a run for it. There have been at least three others, including one who eluded authorities for five years.
Hedge fund managers who escaped U.S. police [Reuters]
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He didn’t “go on the lamb,” even if it’s kosher. He went on the “lam,” i.e. ran away.
It’s an intriguing word, by the way. In Elizabethan times, it mean “to fight” or “beat” an opponent. When you criticize someone harshly, you’re giving them a “lambasting,” the first syllable of which is a remnant of this old meaning.
To “lam” someone in the old sense may make that person lame.
Lots of words that start off as “fight” words also acquire “flight” significance. It I can’t “beat” an opponent, I might “beat it out of here.” If I can’t hit an adversary, I might hit the road. Likewise, “lam” came to mean, “to escape.”
After saddling up the lamb? Probably not.
if the nachos are all stuck together, it counts as only one nacho
Thanks to NotNasser for beating me to the punch regarding the typo of “on the lam.” Also loved the etymological expose.
“Saddling up the lamb” will likely acquire a certain amusing significance if/when Israel is caught and he’s consigned to a higher-security prison than the Camp Fed he was previously scheduled to attend.
Any place thats erves a pile of chips covered in cheese and peppers and chili or whatever is not serving “nachos”. True nachos are single chips with a single bit of cheese and a single slice of jalapeno. Bon vivants can add chicken or beef to their nachos if they like but that’s like adding a bit of blue oil paint to your Matisse.
Anyone remember the guys down in Ft Lauderdale somewhere around spring 2002, think the name David Kim was his name, peaced out with somewhere in the $300m range and as far as I know have still yet to be found.
Love that employees showed up for work one day only to find the FBI had torn the place up and they were locked out.
@ 9:47 what part of it being one nacho didnt you understand
@9:51….Dammit Erin, I was agreeing with you.
~Moz
Samuel “Mint Jelly” Isreal
NotNasser that was one of the most randomly and impressively boring comments I have read around here in a while. I’ll bet you could get assigned as special proxy access correspondent.
9:57.
Thanks. I try.
I see they’ve deleted the “b” from “lamb” in the original entry, though. That isn’t fair. Once they make an amusing typo and someone does a comment on it, the typo should stay.
There are sidewalks on both sides of the GG Bridge. It’s just easier to get to the one that faces SF…
Israel + Bear Mountain + CSX freight train.
In re: Lamb vs. Lam
It was a great comment. I’m sorry we had to change it.
@ 10:25: That’s good to know. Thanks! Question: if that side really is encouraging suicide, shouldn’t they close it?
LMAO @ “special proxy access correspondent.”
@10:48 – That side isn’t “encouraging suicide”—by “easier to get to” he means that there is more convenient parking at either end on that side. The guard rails are the same on both sides, as can be seen in this picture (SF side on left): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Golden_Gate_Bridge_Front_Traffic.jpeg
Interesting that none of the comments addressed what is really the core of the matter — that Israel is a thieving piece of shit and should be fucked in the shower every day once he is caught.
Clown City – two fools
The Houston-based fund will trade oil, natural gas and electricity as well as contracts such as weather derivatives, coal and emissions credits, according to the fund’s marketing documents. Metz, who started the fund with John James, declined to comment.
“Some of these markets are not yet big enough to justify the rapid growth of hedge funds specializing in them,” said Bernd Kreuter, head of hedge funds and private equity at Feri Institutional Advisors GmbH, based in Bad Homburg, Germany.
Clown City – two fools
The Houston-based fund will trade oil, natural gas and electricity as well as contracts such as weather derivatives, coal and emissions credits, according to the fund’s marketing documents. Metz, who started the fund with John James, declined to comment.
“Some of these markets are not yet big enough to justify the rapid growth of hedge funds specializing in them,” said Bernd Kreuter, head of hedge funds and private equity at Feri Institutional Advisors GmbH, based in Bad Homburg, Germany.
Who the f* are these people?