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TenTimesFiltered
04/29/09

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This reminds me of the time I left my (now -ex) drunk girlfriend in my apartment for maybe 35 minutes, only to return to find her smashing full jars of spaghetti sauce and ketchup all over my walls, floors, and ceiling.

Fun!
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belltolls
04/29/09

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What a Möbius strip!
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Smitros
04/29/09

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This puts me in the mind of the yuppie nightmare film Pacific Heights ([www.imdb.com]).
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Hydroceph
04/29/09

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Who are this guy's friends? Homeless crazy people? Who does that?
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
04/29/09

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"He used to have a line of yoga wear that was sold at Barneys and Bergdorf's"

well, there's your red flag right there
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Hydroceph
04/29/09

@The Boulevard of Broken Queens: No kidding. I've got a friend who's working on a similar trajectory. He's currently working on his own system of yoga, so I expect to read about him the papers in a year or two after a similar psychotic break.
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
04/29/09

@Hydroceph: california and/or yoga are the gateway to all kinds of psychotic behavior.
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Mount_Prion
04/29/09

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Also, is this story even real? From the comments on the Observer:

The problem with this story is that they don't mention that a picture of the kitchen has metadata that predates the incident by over a YEAR.

[www.observer.com]
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Hydroceph
04/29/09

@Mount_Prion: killjoy. Just look at how much fun everyone's having, the thrills, the chills. Why let reality get in the way?

Wait a minute...wasn't metadata the issue with Amazon's bout of gay-bashing? Maybe there's a conspiracy. Wouldn't that be delish?
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allyzay
04/29/09

@Hydroceph: if the reality is that some melodramatic party promoter made up a story about his friend losing his shit in some seeming meth rage and trashing his crap so he can get new crate & barrel...isn't that also just fun? i'm rooting for that angle myself because it is the funniest possible.
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Mount_Prion
04/29/09

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After reading the article, this seems like an appropriate clip:

+ Watch video

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futuremrsrickankiel
04/29/09

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The comments on both the Observer story and a Village Voice blog piece about this imply that this incident has caused somewhat of a kerfuffle among the NYC community; many of them are calling it a hoax. I'm kind of intrigued.
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SeaBassTian
04/29/09

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I have to give him props for not pressing charges. But I hear that Tratner has taken to the Internet to solicit donations and that this dude even has a Target Registry. I was surprised that Gawker was late to break this story, Gothamist had the house sitter from Hell scoop yesterday.
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lobstr
04/29/09

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"He put his head through the medicine cabinet mirror," said Mr. Tratner.

You know, those open on hinges nowadays...

Jesus.
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Kelisem
04/29/09

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Michael Musto at the Village Voice has been on this for like a week - but the real story is in the comments section on his site.

This may be a bigger story than y'all think. Dishy!
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allyzay
04/29/09

@Kelisem: omg i have been reading these and they are DELICIOUS.
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HPGrl04
04/29/09

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dude... wtf? that's what apt insurance is for... call the police and chalk that shit up to a effing robbery... blood everywhere? toilet ripped out?

who was this friend? Guns N Roses?
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serpentinefire
04/29/09

@HPGrl04: The guy said he didn't have renters insurance.
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Hydroceph
04/29/09

@serpentinefire: No he had it, but allowed it to lapse when he switched insurance companies. Because, you know, those insurance companies are all alike and so a policy with one is the same as a policy with any of the others.
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gladys_kravitz
04/29/09

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I feel sorry for the poor, terrified dog that had to witness this.
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allyzay
04/29/09

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ok so wait -- when doree writes that there is no nypd record of this incident, does she mean "the police speaking to this one lady" (which doesn't make sense, to point out in the article, of course the police wouldn't keep a record of telling some lady to forget her coat and leave right away), or does she mean this whole incident because if it is the latter this is the best reporting i've ever read.
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tigolbitties
04/29/09

@allyzay: according to the comments this is all made up! i am so confused!!!!!! methinks the police report of the incident doesn't exist, not just of the lady's comments. i mean, why would there be swat, and air mattressy suicide watch people - all for what i would assume sounded like a raucous party?!?! does anyone know this matt fellow and would like to call BS on this whole thing?
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DorothyMantooth
04/29/09

@allyzay: I thought she was referring to the apartment evacuation, myself.
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allyzay
04/29/09

@tigolbitties: haha if you go read the michael musto column where he's been going on and on about this, there is like an ARMY of commenters who are claiming to be investigating this, calling the precinct to get police reports blah blah blah. it does seem awfully weird that a totally naked man cutting himself in a window of an evacuated building bleeding onto the street while three "swat" teams circle wouldn't make it onto the news, right?
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BookishLookish
04/29/09

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Doree rules!
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