Paul Routledge Can Rejoice As Credit Crunch Banker Tops Himself
“CREDIT CRUNCH BANKER KILLS HIMSELF,” screams the Daily Mail’s front-page headline.
Kirk Stephenson, who was married with an eight-year-old son, died in the path of a 100mph express train at Taplow railway station, Berkshire. Mr Stephenson is believed to have taken his own life after succumbing to mounting personal pressures as the world’s financial markets went into meltdown.
Believed by whom, is not said. But at least one man is happy: Paul Routledge can rejoice:
“In China, financial crooks get a bullet in the back of the head. Y’know, I think they might be on to something.”
In Japan they have bullet trains, don’tyerknow…
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September 28th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
perhaps the railways need more than ‘Mind the Gap’ perhaps ‘ Bankers and others stand ‘here’ or ‘there”
September 28th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Mind the crunch
September 28th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
still its one fewer commuter from Taplow, more room on the train, oh dear shall the Railways go bust next oh dear…
September 28th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I really think they ought to speed it up a bit; at this rate it’s going to take a couple of years to whittle down the numbers in Corney and Barrow sufficiently to make getting to the bar without a Heckler and Koch clenched in one hand a viable proposition…
September 29th, 2008 at 9:39 am
perhaps subsidised coach tickets to beachy head for city workers may help.
i don’t mind my tax being used for that.
September 29th, 2008 at 10:40 am
I believe everyone is taking this way too lightly. At the end of the day this gentleman was a father and husband and some-ones son…and no job is worth a life.
I feel for his family who are now left behind to cope with their grief whilst others are being insensitive to the hidden situation behind all this.
One mans desperation, who felt he had no way out but to kill himself and all over money…
‘which is what at the end of the day?’….valueless.
September 29th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
This is really sad, and I think it’s easy for bloggers and journos to succumb to the temptation of flippant headlines, but perhaps we should just resist.
October 14th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
I agree, it is sad. I just hope his debts have not been passed on to his wife. It would
be a shame if she has to bear the burden , having lost her Husband.