Time traveller from 2256?

[coloradodem2005]

NEW YORK -- Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges -- and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!

Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January 28.
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"But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks' time he had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can't be pure luck.
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Officials are quite confident the "time-traveler's" claims are bogus. Yet the SEC source admits, "No one can find any record of any Andrew Carlssin existing anywhere before December 2002."
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http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Post a link!

Or at least a stock tip!

--bkl

[NightTrain]

2. It's from the WEEKLY WORD NEWS, fer chrissake!

Damn....

[Salviati]

3. again, snopes has got everything...

http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/insider.htm

As well as the SEC:

http://sec.broaddaylight.com/sec/FAQ_19_16002.shtm

[Gothic Sponge]

4. This is a silly story

Everyone from the future has been instructed and have taken an oath not to interfere with the timeline. ;)

[coloradodem2005]

5. That does not mean that someone has not broken it. n/t

[Gothic Sponge]

6. Nobody has broken it!

I would have received orders by now to eradicate the culprit.........If i was a timecop, or something like that.....Hehe....



:7

[coloradodem2005]

7. Okay.

Say I jump into a time machine and go back in time to 2000. I set out to change how the election happened. I keep the republicans from storming the recount in Florida and then as a result on January 20th 2001, President Albert A. Gore is inagurated as 43rd President of the United States.

Would you go after me then?

[Gothic Sponge]

11. Well, in that case i would not only not go after you...

I'd help you! :D

[coloradodem2005]

14. In that case...

... you and I should get together and start building a time machine. In the event that Kerry does not win, we may need it to save America. What do you think?

[Whitacre D_WI]

8. In the year 2525...

...aw, crap.

[coloradodem2005]

9. What? n/t

[Whitacre D_WI]

10. That's a VERY BAD song...

...that I now have stuck in my head, thanks to your post.

[coloradodem2005]

12. WHo did it?

I don't know this song.

[Whitacre D_WI]

Zager and Evans

One-hit wonder.

Absolutely dreadful.

[Gothic Sponge]

13. Oh yeah

That's the song where in the future your eyes will melt.......right?