So this moron Doc who blew up his town house...

[cookiepuss]

in and attempt to kill himself and so he wouldn't have to give the house to his wife who he is getting a divorce from....what an idiot man.

First of all. if your an M.D. you have access to ALL kinds of lethal drugs. So like if you're going to blow up your house and you intend to go down with it why would you hope to get killed in the blast when you can give yourself a lethal injection of morphine or something? So #1 he's a moron for not killing him self properly when it could have been so damn easy.

now he's in critical condition, but if he pulls though he's in deep shit.

#2. if your'e going to blow up a building to spite your ex wife... the polite thing to do is to kill/mame as few innocents as possible. So if possible, one should really try to schedule the blast for late night or 3 am or something...when theres not alot of foot traffic on the street. I mean it's fucking rude to blow up a town house during commute hours. luckily his nurse was late or he would have maimed/killed her too.


anyway this guy is an ass. so I hope he lives so he can realize he's a miserable ass and a bad, selfish man. and he should have to live with that.

[cookiepuss]

this is the story in case you don't know what I'm talking about.

Tampering found at NYC town house blast By TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 16 minutes ago



Investigators confirmed Tuesday that a gas line had been tampered with before a landmark town house was leveled by an explosion, narrowing their focus on the building's owner, who is suspected of setting off the blast in a botched suicide attempt during a bitter divorce.

"We're saying this is intentional," said Louis Garcia, the city's chief fire marshal, adding that the modifications could have been made by "anybody who is handy."

Plastic tubing had been connected with a radiator valve to the main gas line in the basement of the Upper East Side building, Garcia said. With the valve left open, gas was able to flow freely into the house for hours before the blast.

The explosion on Monday hurled fireballs high into the sky and left the upscale block covered in bricks, broken glass and splintered wood. At least 15 people were injured, including five civilians and 10 firefighters.

Authorities have been investigating whether Dr. Nicholas Bartha, the lone occupant during the blast, might have caused the explosion rather than sell the house as part of a divorce judgment favoring his ex-wife. Bartha, a physician who lived and worked in the four-story building, remained in critical condition Tuesday after being rescued from the rubble a day earlier.

Detectives "want to talk to him, but haven't been able to because the extent of his injuries," police spokesman Paul Browne said.

Bartha, 66, became the sole suspect after police got a 911 call from his ex-wife, Cordula Bartha. She told them that her former husband had sent her a rambling e-mail shortly before the blast, saying she would soon be "transformed from gold digger to ash and rubbish digger."

The husband went on to warn her, "You always wanted me to sell the house. I always told you I will leave the house only if I am dead."

The ex-wife's lawyer said in an e-mail Tuesday that the doctor was the one who appealed a lower-court ruling that stated the house was not marital property and belonged to him. But he lost the house when a higher court ruled it was marital property.

"He unfortunately did not want to give her one penny, so he kept fighting," attorney Polly Passonneau wrote. "He is living with the consequences of his own behavior."

The 19th-century town house on 62nd Street between Park and Madison avenues once served as a secret meeting place for a group of prominent New Yorkers who informally gathered intelligence for President Franklin D. Roosevelt before and during World War II.

The building — just a few blocks from Central Park — was worth nearly $5 million based on a 2004 assessment and as much as $6.4 million in today's market. It was to be sold at auction in October to pay a $4 million judgment against Bartha, though his ex-wife had predicted he would not leave without a fight.

"He has said many times that he intends to 'die in my house,'" Cordula Bartha said in a petition filed last year.

The court records describe a bitter dispute that dragged on for five years.

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."

Power company Consolidated Edison had been at the building on June 8 after a routine check found a gas leak in the pipe.

The gas was shut off, and Nicholas Bartha was asked to get the pipe fixed, a spokesman said. The gas was turned back on after the utility ensured the leak was fixed.

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Associated Press Writer Adam Goldman contributed to this report.

[cookiepuss]

nevermind. I have PMS

[hardnox71]

The guy is a complete moron for reasons other that what you stated. This guy is a doctor, no, not just a doctor, a private physician, in upper Manhattan, with his own private practice. I mean, Jesus, I can smell the money all the way from Chicago.

This guy was making money hand over fist. I can't believe he's that bent out of shape about giving up a town house. Yeah, so he'll have to move his practice elsewhere, so what? Is that something to die over? Hell no.

It's like Chris Rock's joke about O.J. killing Nicole. If you make $30 million and she gets half, ok, no big deal. You still got $15 mil. You're not gonna starve. But if you make $30 thousand and she takes half...........well, something's gotta be done 'cause this ain't gonna work.

Doctor Dumbass is an idiot. He wasn't hurting that fucking bad to be doing all that shit.

[b i o n i c]

he will get what he wanted, sorta, if the insurance won't pay up.

[hardnox71]

The insurance is definitely not gonna pay anything. The Chief Fire Marshall of the City of New York said that it was a tamper job. Do you really think any insurance company is gonna pay after hearing some shit like that? This guy won't see a fucking penny and he is facing a slew of charges. Exactly which ones, I dunno. I've never blown anything up before. But I know he's got some serious problems ahead.

[cookiepuss]

he will get what he wanted, sorta, if the insurance won't pay up.


well he's made sure SHE won't get the house and since it's already being determined to be intentional the insurance won't pay so, yes. but he'll likely be procecuted if he doesn't die. So that doesn't work out so well for him. works fine for me though. he better not die. I'll be so mad.:mad:

[YoungRemy]

he blew up a building in manhattan, shouldnt he be called a terrorist?

[b i o n i c]

if you light a homeless person's box on fire, are you a terrorist?

[hardnox71]

if you light a homeless person's box on fire, are you a terrorist?
No, that would make you an evil SOB with too much time on your hands.

[befsquire]

i think it's obvious why he didn't take a quick way out with lethal drugs. he might have died before ensuring the building was reduced to rubble. it was more important to him that she not get the house, or any other money, etc. i'm thinking he won't be real concerned about going to jail if he lives, because at least she's not getting that 4 mil.

[cookiepuss]

and this whole thing seemed to be over the hatred of his ex wife and so you'd think he'd want her to die. and being a doctor and all he would know not only how to save lives but also how to take them, eh. So why didn't he find some way to kill her that would be overlooked by medical examiners? I guess I've seen too many movies.

if he's found to be mentally incompetant the medical licensing board will likely take his medical license away and he won't be a doc no more. he's so fucked.

[Pres Zount]

i think it's obvious why he didn't take a quick way out with lethal drugs. he might have died before ensuring the building was reduced to rubble.
Lethal injections take a long time. A fucking Doctor would have been able to work out the correct dosage and time frame involved.

[cookiepuss]

i think it's obvious why he didn't take a quick way out with lethal drugs. he might have died before ensuring the building was reduced to rubble. it was more important to him that she not get the house, or any other money, etc. i'm thinking he won't be real concerned about going to jail if he lives, because at least she's not getting that 4 mil.

:) haha. that's true. you might be just the lawyer for him Beth!

[befsquire]

and this whole thing seemed to be over the hatred of his ex wife and so you'd think he'd want her to die. and being a doctor and all he would know not only how to save lives but also how to take them, eh. So why didn't he find some way to kill her that would be overlooked by medical examiners? I guess I've seen too many movies.

if he's found to be mentally incompetant the medical licensing board will likely take his medical license away and he won't be a doc no more. he's so fucked.
1. he has a nurse. he's likely been fucked on that whole doc angle for a bit.

2. he doesn't want her to die. he wants her to live without a penny because he thinks that's more painful.

3. the right person looks, they'll find what he used, be it poison, too much insulin, etc. and since he's a doctor, they may have looked extra hard for such a thing.

he's 66, had a nurse before this incident, and he had accomplished what he wanted regarding his wife, so i'm betting he's not going to live to see a jail cell.

pres, if he picked a lethal dose of something but then couldn't accomplish the explosion within the proper time frame (due to someone being there, etc.) then he died for nothing. he really had to go with the blast.

[Pres Zount]

pres, if he picked a lethal dose of something but then couldn't accomplish the explosion within the proper time frame (due to someone being there, etc.) then he died for nothing. he really had to go with the blast.

ahh true.

[cookiepuss]

1. he has a nurse. he's likely been fucked on that whole doc angle for a bit.

2. he doesn't want her to die. he wants her to live without a penny because he thinks that's more painful.

3. the right person looks, they'll find what he used, be it poison, too much insulin, etc. and since he's a doctor, they may have looked extra hard for such a thing.

he's 66, had a nurse before this incident, and he had accomplished what he wanted regarding his wife, so i'm betting he's not going to live to see a jail cell.

pres, if he picked a lethal dose of something but then couldn't accomplish the explosion within the proper time frame (due to someone being there, etc.) then he died for nothing. he really had to go with the blast.

oh come on he was bangin' the nurse. hell why do you think he's getting a divorce? So she'd cover for him.

but i agree i'd have to be a pretty fucking good cause of death because he has an obvious motive and a medical background.

but he's rich and curruption run deep in the city. he'd simply have to pay off a few of his doctor friends to help him cover it up. and doctor friends always have lawyer friends abd lawyer friends have police friends adn so on. so he obviusly wasn't rich enought to pull that off.

but that brings us back to wanting her dead. or not. because damn it I agree it's better to see someone suffer. ah but then again he was going to kill himself so he wasn't going to see her suffer! he'd be dead. so we are obviously not dealing with a rational man here.

as you can see I enjoy speculations.:)

[ms.peachy]

^^^^ someone's watched waaaaaay too many episodes of Law & Order.

[na§tee]

read this in the scotsman today - headline was "is this the world's bitterest husband and most devastating divorce case?"

very curious. i'd be interested to know what happens to him. wanker.

[enree erzweglle]

we are obviously not dealing with a rational man here.Exactly, which is why it's almost cruel to speculate and judge and make assumptions about his life and social connections and financial situation and rationale/motive. I am not at all condoning what he did but about the only thing that I think I can be sure of is that he must have been feeling a horrible amount of turmoil to have done what he did and that's tragic.

[abcdefz]

The insurance is definitely not gonna pay anything. The Chief Fire Marshall of the City of New York said that it was a tamper job. Do you really think any insurance company is gonna pay after hearing some shit like that?


That's pretty much what I figured he must've been thinking. Plus, with suicide, life insurance doesn't pay up, either. There might also be reasons why, legally, his (ex- ?) wife would then be encumbered with debt. That whole morass is how I think he probably thought he'd screw her over, and he wouldn't be alive to have to face any of it.

Ooops!

[cookiepuss]

darn it he died.

"Police were unable to speak to Bartha following the explosion because he was in a medically induced coma, but authorities have said they were investigating whether he was the person who tampered with a gas line leading into the home's basement, allowing vapors to flow freely for hours until it caused the building to blow up.

Bartha was not charged and "if he's dead, there's no criminality," said Detective John Sweeney, a police spokesman."

DAMN IT! HOUSE WOULD HAVE WOKE HIM UP FROM THE COLMA AND MADE HIM TALK! why can't real life be more like tv!:mad: