{"id":68355,"date":"2015-05-05T10:11:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T18:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68355"},"modified":"2015-05-05T10:20:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T18:20:26","slug":"sheryl-sandbergs-husbands-weird-mexican-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68355","title":{"rendered":"Sheryl Sandberg’s Husband’s Weird Mexican Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

From comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* Further to Steve Sailer\u2019s point about social media titans, from the NY Post:<\/p>\n

Sheryl Sandberg has not made a public statement or commented about her husband\u2019s death. The family is expected to hold an invitation-only celebration of Goldberg\u2019s life on Tuesday at Stanford Memorial Auditorium in California.<\/p>\n

Men looking to attend have been told to ditch the ties \u201cin keeping with Dave\u2019s lifelong hatred of ties,\u201d according to an e-mailed invitation sent to friends of the couple.<\/p>\n

Mourners have also been urged to not take pictures or make social-media posts related to the event \u201cout of respect for the family.\u201d<\/p>\n

* Everyone should refrain from using Facebook, forever \u2013 out of respect for Sandberg\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

* This is getting fishier.<\/p>\n

I bet his head trauma forensics are clearly criminal in nature. So you get the long delay in cause of reports and the hasty evacuation of the family.<\/p>\n

Just because the body was found in the gym doesn\u2019t mean the trauma occurred there.<\/p>\n

Bungled ransom or perhaps mundane murder by a local or another guest.<\/p>\n

* The rich and powerful suffer and die just like the rest of us. Mr. Goldberg was both, and relished speaking power to truth. It didn\u2019t save him from an ugly and unfortunate death.<\/p>\n

The things Mr. Goldberg apparently worshipped- wealth, power, and the peculiar combination expressed in upper-class feminism- are brief, fleeting illusions. One minute you\u2019re enjoying a Four Seasons resort, the next the bag of meat, blood, pus and tears we call our body begins its return to its constituent elements.<\/p>\n

It may seem hard to pity these people, but they live on the edge of the abyss, and they know it. The less fortunate have their small comforts, of religion or a better mortal existence, for themselves or their children. Things may not be good now, but they may get better. For the rich things cannot get better, they enjoy everything that can possibly be enjoyed, and they quickly tire of the pleasure. But to indulge in such peasant comforts as belief in God or an afterlife would be gauche, so they double down on the hedonism and the social justice activism.<\/p>\n

We know not the day nor the hour.<\/p>\n

* Even if Goldberg\u2019s death wasn\u2019t directly caused by cartel violence, it\u2019s possible that the closing of roads by violence may have prevented him from getting medical treatment for a severe accidental injury.<\/p>\n

* According to the Mexican medical report, it was head trauma and accompanying hypovolemic shock that caused Mr. Goldberg\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

This means he lost over 20% of his blood from a 4cm head wound, which was a severe, crushing wound that broke the skull. How you get that from falling off a treadmill beats me. That\u2019s the kind of wound you\u2019d expect someone who got hit full force on the head with rebar to have. Or perhaps hit with a dumbbell\u2026 The skull is pretty hard. Typically, if you fall and hit your head, it bounces, giving you a concussion. This can be deadly, but it doesn\u2019t involve a \u201cpool of blood\u201d or open skull fracture. The kinds of impacts that create those wounds are seen in auto and occasionally bicycle accidents, which involve considerably more velocity and force than a fall off a treadmill, which operates at a maximum speed of only 10mph, and in Goldberg\u2019s case probably more like four or five.<\/p>\n

The details here, the reticence about revealing the cause of death, the sudden departure of the family and the crazy events in Puerto Vallarta on May 1 raise a lot of questions about Goldberg\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

“He is also a private person \u2014 99.995% of Americans don\u2019t give a FF who the husband of the COO of facebook is.”<\/p>\n

No, he is not a \u201cprivate person.\u201d Sheryl Sandberg has used her family as the model for the contemporary American woman, pushing her \u201clean in\u201d concept all over the country. She has sponsored events for girls and served as the public female face of Facebook. She calls herself a feminist. She actively pushes her ideals on the rest of us. Goldberg was a part of that package. He was no recluse, but rather very much a part of the debate about the role of the contemporary husband and wife.<\/p>\n

Whenever public figures seem to be hiding something, it\u2019s worth following up on it to see why.<\/p>\n

Maybe he did die in an accident. Maybe the treadmill really did fling him headfirst into some corner at a high velocity, breaking his skull. If that\u2019s the case, shouldn\u2019t we know how on earth treadmills can do that so as to prevent more of these accidents?<\/p>\n

And if he was murdered, shouldn\u2019t that inform Americans\u2019 decisions when it comes to travel destinations? Shouldn\u2019t it give us more reason to monitor our border for potential criminal fugitives from Mexico?<\/p>\n

* Sheryl Sandberg is a scold and a busy-body. She is also, as it appears, a bit of a hypocrite \u2013 in that her fortune is based on Facebook, an internet platform which encourages its members to broadcast their lives on the internet. That is not incidental to Facebook\u2019s business. It IS Facebook\u2019s business. If you are on Facebook, then YOU are their product \u2013 they sell information about you to marketers and data-miners.<\/p>\n

Wealthy, powerful people who very publicly tell other people how they should live end up with the public scrutiny they deserve.<\/p>\n

* A grown man went to the gym at a luxurious Four Seasons resort at 4pm and is discovered by his own brother almost 3 hours later alive but in a pool of his own blood with a 1.18 inch gash to the skull. State officials and the general manager of the resort giving conflicting statements about at what resort the fatal fall even occurred. Pretty classic scenario we have here.<\/p>\n

* Steve is onto to something, Goldberg could have been a easy target of opportunity, rub out a el hefe in a exclusive resort to send a message that all are fair game for the cartels. And it would explain why his wife ran off like a scalded cat \u2013 she was probably informed the cartels did it or were nearby.<\/p>\n

* Perhaps Dave Goldberg\u2019s family was initially silent on the cause of death \u2026 precisely so people would NOT draw the possibility that iSteve describes. If Dave Goldberg\u2019s death was an accident, his family certainly knew of the cartel\u2019s co-temporal terrorist attacks that, regardless, seems to explain their quick departure from the area. Of note, the family also remained silent about the terrorist attacks. iSteve, as he so often does, connected the dots (of logical possibility) that others were systematically avoiding out of respect for political correctness. Good job Steve!<\/p>\n

* A random act by the cartel per Sailer\u2019s theory?<\/p>\n

Goldberg\u2019s the unluckiest bastard in the world. There have to be witnesses, something will come out.<\/p>\n

A targeted kidnapping gone bad?<\/p>\n

Cartel (or others) saw that he exercised alone and tried to nab him. He resisted. Again, there have to be witnesses.<\/p>\n

A crime of passion?<\/p>\n

Goldberg\u2019s wife and brother are having an affair and\/or some other attempt to extort Goldberg. Young boys and\/or underage prostitutes are involved. The brother sees his chance, provides deep comfort to the widow. Unlikely that we\u2019ll ever know anything.<\/p>\n

Association of Tie Manufacturers is behind the deed?<\/p>\n

Goldberg\u2019s hatred of all things ties is well-known, a clear threat to the ATM. Goldberg must go.<\/p>\n

An overweight dweeb slips and falls?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m rather uncoordinated and lack a lot of balance. I can easily see myself dying like this poor bastard.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a Cohen brothers movie in this somewhere.<\/p>\n

* Occam\u2019s Razor says that the simplest explanation for an overweight middle aged guy dropping dead next to a treadmill is that the treadmill had something to do with it and Mexican drug cartels did not.<\/p>\n

It was admittedly a freak accident \u2013 treadmills don\u2019t kill many adults. But freak accidents happen now and then \u2013 that\u2019s what makes them freak accidents. Sometimes the very richness of super-rich people ends up hurting them. If Goldberg was an ordinary Jewish rich guy instead of a plutocrat, he would have been staying next door at the Four Seasons and using the hotel gym and as soon as he slipped off, someone else in the gym would have called for help. But he was so damn rich that he didn\u2019t have to pant in the presence of even other moderately rich people, he could afford his own private gym where he could bleed to death alone. Karma is a bitch.<\/p>\n

If the cartel wanted to kidnap him, they would have gotten farther than just leaving him in place. If they wanted to send a \u201cno one is safe\u201d message, they would have machine gunned him or cut off his head or something \u2013 they are not subtle kind of guys.<\/p>\n

That being said, I can understand why the surviving Sandberg\/Goldbergs did not want to stick around and complete their beachside vacation, even if the $11,500\/day was prepaid to the end of the week and was non-refundable.<\/p>\n

* I have been to quite a few gyms and I have never seen sharp, pointed metal objects near the treadmills. I am sure that there were no uncapped valves on radiators nearby.<\/p>\n

There is usually a large open space behind a treadmill, often covered with rubber-like padding, because gym operators know that people fall off treadmills quite often and they want to cushion the impact. Because of the treadmill\u2019s motion, people fall off the treadmill in one direction only, and then they land on the padding. In an expensive resort\u2019s gym, I would expect to see extra space and extra padding.<\/p>\n

The whole deep-headwound-from-falling-off-a-treadmill story is not credible. The flimsiness of this story is evidence of the panicked state of the people who concocted it.<\/p>\n

* The only thing that would make the apparent cause of death interesting to me is if the reason he fell off the treadmill was because he was distracted with Facebook on his phone. Which actually doesn\u2019t seem that farfetched.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the most interesting part of this story is, I think, the request for no Facebooking at the funeral. These people sense, deep down, the vulgarity of social media. I guess this is just the white collar version of \u201cdon\u2019t get high on your own supply.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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