Man, convicted of arson, commits suicide while in court being pronounced guilty.

[Stinky The Clown]

Michael Marin, a stocks and bonds guy, was broke. He burned down his own house for the insurance. He went to trial and yesterday was convicted. He faced up to 16 years in the can.

Rather than man up, he ingested something and moments later collapsed. He died shortly after while in the hospital.

Here's a clip on a yahoo site:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/phoenixktvk3tv-15751070/man-collapses-dies-after-arson-conviction-29828349.html

This is gunna sound harsh, but maybe he did his fellow citizens a favor.

[RevStPatrick]

1. And I think we'll be seeing more of this kind of thing.

I'm not gonna watch the clip, however...

[freshwest]

2. No - he only did himself a favor. If he had insurance that would have helped his family, they're out

Of luck with his last self-absorbed act. And the taxpayers will foot the bill for taking care of his remains. And there is likely a family member who would have been glad to see him still alive, even if in prison. He didn't help anyone by this.

[boston bean]

3. Sounds like a sad story to me. I don't relish in the thought of wall streeters

offing themselves.

[sadbear]

5. Well, not most of them.

Isn't this kind of thing considered honorable in certain parts of the world?

[maddezmom]

4. read this earlier

seems like something you'd see in a movie not in real life.

[Logical]

6. Man up? WFT.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Yeah. Man Up. As in own your shit and take the consequences.

Is that easier to understand?

[Logical]

9. LOL, so you know how this man feels? How he feels about prison? I imagine you call...

people with mental problems "pussys" and people who talk to councilors "weak".

[Stinky The Clown]

12. That's quite the assumptional leap, there, Mr. Logical

Good one.

[FarLeftFist]

8. I just sat through a 15 second ad to watch a 30 second vid. The internet is officially dead.

[etherealtruth]

10. This is nothing short of horrifying

This is tragic ... no one was done a favor

[MrScorpio]

11. He had a You Tube channel where he posted some of his grandiose adventures

This guy wrote some serious checks that his ass couldn't cash.

Plus he was a self-publishes author too. Here's a review of his book:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1XTFE5L4OVIYN/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0971133395&nodeID=283155&store=books#wasThisHelpful

By "randolph47"
This review is from: Fluctuations! The inside story of how Wall Street !@#$%& Asia Without a Kiss (Paperback)
I worked in Lehman Brothers Asia at the same time as Mike and was acquainted with him at the time. I was therefore looking forward to seeing whether this would be the next Liar's Poker of Wall St. The book is part autobiography, part confessional, part expose, part-fiction (by Mike's own admission) - all of which makes this book a confused hotch potch of fact and allegory, although at times (all to briefly) it comes on par with Liar's Poker. First and foremost the book desperately needs an editor - how else could you explain the inclusion of such disparate topics as saturation diving, letters from Nigerian con men, rather lame attempts at humour through the inclusion of bogus contracts and fictious memos on trading floor language, in a book which supposedly is an exposé of Wall St firms in Asia. Lehman Brothers was indeed populated by a cast of colourful, but not necessarily malicious characters, and the political posturings and constant restructurings are worthy of a book, but sadly this book fails to capture much of the pace of the firm in Asia. That said there are some sharp observations and acute caricatures of some of the people.

Aside from the poor editing the other major fault of the book is that we get a relatively sterile cardboard cut out version of Marin himself, not the full colour, all singing, all dancing version we came to know and love (well almost) - missing is the Marin with the Rolls Royce, his blonde bodacious girlfriend, Debbie (who gets only oblique reference in two paragraphs), the therapy sessions, Marin the serious gun enthusiast, Marin getting head-hunted to Deutsche Bank (very brief mention), Marin 'the Rod', Marin the misunderstood, Mike the absent, etc, about our erstwhile hero which would have livened up the book considerably. In conclusion the book fails to measure up with Liar's Poker, but for those who knew him the book provides an entertaining tour through the mind of Mr. Marin