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Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by dopamean »

psds2 wrote: post #294
dopamean wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have several friends who live in these types of apartments and all of them have apartments where the elevator opens directly into the unit. This is a common setup.

Do residents never get in the elevator with other tenants of the building? It would feel odd to open my door to complete strangers like that just because the elevator stopped on my floor before theirs.

In all the instances I have personal experience with the buildings are very small. No more than a dozen units and so there isn't usually a big risk of running into anyone. Also, I don't think you can actually ring multiple floors in those elevators. The elevator would need to take you to your unit then go back to the lobby to get the next person.

The building this attack happened in had a total of 7 units.

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Post by neonate »

OJFord wrote: post #308
dang wrote: post #272

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Ok, we can change to that from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/nyregion/dismembered-body... . Thanks.

Maybe not a consideration, but nydailynews is not available from Europe.

https://archive.is/ltGpQ

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Post by dang »

alpha_squared wrote: post #183

> Condos in the building feature Italian marble kitchens and master baths, white oak floors and asking prices in the $2 million to $2.5 million range, according to the real estate website StreetEasy. The website Curbed noted in a 2017 article that access to the building’s units was via a private, keyed elevator. This is such a strange paragraph to read in an article like this. I see the relevance of the last sentence…

Looks like that quote was in one of the earlier articles. We've changed the URL a couple times.

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Post by TameAntelope »

filleduchaos wrote: post #18
adenozine wrote: post #6

How horrible. Why would someone do this? I'd never heard of Gokada, it looks like such a cool thing for a developing country. I wonder what the motivation was. It doesn't seem like a market where there'd be the political pressure to assassinate someone. Maybe if there was someone trying to rethink the way pharmaceuticals or something, I could understand a CEO getting chopped into pieces by some shadowy figure, but ri…

It's worth noting that there was a sudden & pretty draconian regulation passed early this year that gutted Gokada's primary business (ridesharing on motorbikes). He was very passionate in his disagreement with the government's decision. The company pivoted pretty neatly (in my opinion) to last-mile deliveries instead - the pandemic certainly helped drive demand - but currently there's morbid speculation that potentia…

I know television and film popularize this kind of thing, but how often are people actually murdered and dismembered for financial reasons??? Same question around murder-for-hire generally, as well as specifically "someone in power" being so upset as to murder the man brutally?

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Post by konaraddi »

chaostheory wrote: post #282
azinman2 wrote: post #246

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Would you have a house with windows on the street? Do you walk outside without body armor and a bullet proof vest? Get in a cab... without knowing the driver or having bullet proof glass? Society wouldn't be very fun or fruitful if we all lived in secure underground bunkers.

Welcome to life outside of developed countries. This is life even for some countries considered 'developed'.

This sounds a bit extreme. Which ones are the “outside of developed countries” and how many of them require walking around in body armor everywhere?

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Post by chaostheory »

konaraddi wrote: post #316
chaostheory wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Welcome to life outside of developed countries. This is life even for some countries considered 'developed'.

This sounds a bit extreme. Which ones are the “outside of developed countries” and how many of them require walking around in body armor everywhere?

This has been the norm growing up in the Philippines. We lived in a gilded fortress and we're not drug dealers. We learn about the dangers of being kidnapped before we enter grade school. I can go on, but it's not much different from life in many parts of South America, Africa, and South & South East Asia. You're not required to wear body armor, but seeing that there are armed guards posted outside of a KFC with body armor and either an assault rifle or shotgun; it's not a terrible idea either.

Yes, it's very different from the sheltered life of a developed country.

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Post by freshhawk »

solidasparagus wrote: post #310
esoterica wrote: post #275

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Almost every single family home on the planet can be broken into just by smashing a window. That's a far bigger vulnerability than the possibility of hacking someone's elevator. Most burglars are not very tech savvy but everyone knows how to swing a hammer.

Utterly untrue. Clearly you've never lived anywhere dangerous - bars are a necessity.

What are you saying? That privileged suburb experiences growing up can't be extrapolated for all people?

Not sure that kind of talk is allowed here, HN feels very strongly about how all knowledge can be extrapolated from first principles if you grew up in a nice enough suburb.

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Post by chrisbrandow »

vmception wrote: post #85
filleduchaos wrote: post #18

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It's worth noting that there was a sudden & pretty draconian regulation passed early this year that gutted Gokada's primary business (ridesharing on motorbikes). He was very passionate in his disagreement with the government's decision. The company pivoted pretty neatly (in my opinion) to last-mile deliveries instead - the pandemic certainly helped drive demand - but currently there's morbid speculation that potentia…

Could have just as easily been a date, a hookup, a serial killer, someone perturbed at wealth inequality and better living standards. Just as much as this financial or business hitman speculation. Its all happened in NYC. Chopped up into bags sounds like cartel or organized, it happened to OneCoin promoters in Mexico this month too. But we dont know yet for this case. The chance is part of the rush.

Dismembering someone is something that most people do not have the fortitude for and goes way beyond a crime of passion. It is not just as likely to have been a "date, hookup or somone perturbed at inequality". Serial killer, maybe, however they are much rarer than some sort of cartel/organized outfit.

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psds2 wrote: post #294
dopamean wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have several friends who live in these types of apartments and all of them have apartments where the elevator opens directly into the unit. This is a common setup.

Do residents never get in the elevator with other tenants of the building? It would feel odd to open my door to complete strangers like that just because the elevator stopped on my floor before theirs.

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