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An early april fools joke perhaps but still. :D

Full article: http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html

Quote:

"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.

Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.

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."

Just some snips from the article. Turning $800 to $350 millions in two weeks would have required plenty of excellent sources though. It´s K-Pax all over again! Mind numbing really. I say get the AIDS information and check it. If it´s correct send the guy home. :D

Definately false - but still amusing [img]smile.gif[/img]

<font color = lightgreen>Definitely false. Any time-traveller having even a sliver of common sense would not speculate in stocks. Instead, he would go back and pick up things like original Mozart scores, Stradivarius violins, Van Gogh paintings, etc., store them in a safe place, and then sell them at Sotheby's. [img]graemlins/awesomework.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>

Would be cool if it's true though... no one's proven it to be false yet, right? Guess no one'll mind if I believe him... just for a little while [img]tongue.gif[/img]

definitely false, if it was true, he would keep quiet about it. A lot of people would kill him to get that thing.

Lets suppose for a laugh this was possibly true.When he studied this time wouldn't he have found out about his own arrest?Maybe this a Darwin award from the future.

thats a load of shit, just like everything else from weekly world news, think of it, if this WAS true, we definetly wouldve heard something about it on the news [img]graemlins/arcadefreak.gif[/img]

Weird...
Solitary, watch your language. We have kids as young as twelve here.

I beleive it. Hell why not, as they a persons innocent until proven guilty. Until they find proof that he's not from the future they can't say otherwise :D

Mind you the story might not be true in the first place but thats a differant matter altogether.

What I want to know from that guy is, if they use the three sea shells in the future (only fans of the movie "Demolition man" will get this :D )

[ 03-30-2003, 02:52 PM: Message edited by: Sigmar ]

It's an original defence, to say the least. :D

SolitaryHacker, watch your language and more importantly your attitude. Leave it at the door or don't walk in. In fact it WAS on the news - just because you didn't hear about it doesn't mean it didn't happen. Clear? Good. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 03-31-2003, 04:25 AM: Message edited by: Memnoch ]