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Hello Andy, AA>I thought this might be an interesting read. I wonder whatever became of AA>this. AA>http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html AA>'TIME-TRAVELER' BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING AA>Wednesday March 19, 2003 AA>By CHAD KULTGEN AA>NEW YORK -- Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall AA>Street wiz on insider-trading charges -- and incredibly, he claims to AA>be a time-traveler from the year 2256! AA>Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that AA>44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the bizarre explanation for his AA>uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs AA>on January 28. Andy should not have gotten so greedy! If only he had shared his info with lots of other folks things would have turned out far differently. AA>"We don't believe this guy's story -- he's either a lunatic or a AA>pathological liar," says an SEC insider. Ha! Andy won't give that SEC insider any tips... AA>"But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two AA>weeks' time he had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every AA>trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which AA>simply can't be pure luck. No luck involved at all. Andy is a time traveler. AA>"The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. AA>He's going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers Island until he agrees to AA>give up his sources." Not gonna happen. Unless Andy decides to give his jailers a ride in his time machine on a trip to the future. AA>The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors AA>crying in their beer. So when Carlssin made a flurry of 126 high-risk AA>trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of AA>Wall Street watchdogs. Not only is Andy a time traveler, but he also has a photographic memory. AA>"If a company's stock rose due to a merger or technological AA>breakthrough that was supposed to be secret, Mr. Carlssin somehow knew AA>about it in advance," says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, AA>ongoing investigation. Being a time traveler, Andy knew about events in the past, putting his knowledge to good use when he traveled to this time. AA>When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more AA>than they bargained for: A mind-boggling four-hour confession. Andy is a honest guy, having no need to lie. AA>Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 AA>years in the future, when it is common knowledge that our era AA>experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone AA>armed with knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through AA>the roof could make a fortune. That's right. And if I had a time machine I could do the same thing. Just go back a few years and buy a few shares of yahoo. AA>"It was just too tempting to resist," Carlssin allegedly said in his AA>videotaped confession. "I had planned to make it look natural, you AA>know, lose a little here and there so it doesn't look too perfect. But AA>I just got caught in the moment." It is very difficult for honest folks such as Andy to try deceptive tactics such as buying stocks they know will plunge. AA>In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge AA>"historical facts" such as the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden and a AA>cure for AIDS. Andy is a nice guy and wants to help everybody. Except the bad guys. AA>All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his "time AA>craft." His wife and kids must be wondering what is taking him so long to get back home. AA>However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss AA>how it works, supposedly out of fear the technology could "fall into AA>the wrong hands." Gotta protect the innocent. AA>Officials are quite confident the "time-traveler's" claims are bogus. AA>Yet the SEC source admits, "No one can find any record of any Andrew AA>Carlssin existing anywhere before December 2002." Not having a social security card or a place to stay, it took Andy a while to come up with enough dough to play the market. Doing odd jobs such as cutting grass and painting houses, along with begging, is not exactly a lucrative profession. AA>Weekly World News will continue to follow this story as it unfolds. AA>Keep watching for further developments. Don't worry about Andy. Bat Boy will rescue him. --Lee * SLMR 2.1a * All hope abandon, ye who enter messages here. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5* Origin: Try Our Web Based QWK: DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140) SEEN-BY: 633/267 270 @PATH: 123/140 500 106/2000 633/267 |
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