Time traveller

[Bart Meerdink]

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Even een lichte noot, offtopic dus, maar ik vond hem wel leuk:

Er zullen weinigen zijn die nooit eens gedroomd hebben om vanuit de
toekomst met wat pagina's beurskoersen in een flits het fortuin te
verdienen waar je eeuwig mee toe kan.

Dit is wat er dan gebeurt: (en nee, het is nog geen 1 april)

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

'TIME-TRAVELER' BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
Wednesday March 19, 2003


By CHAD KULTGEN

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.

"We don't believe this guy's story -- he's either a lunatic or a
pathological liar," says an SEC insider.

"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.

"The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information.
He's going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers Island until he agrees to
give up his sources."

The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying
in their beer. So when Carlssin made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades
and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
Street watchdogs.

"If a company's stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough
that was supposed to be secret, Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in
advance," says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing investigation.

When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more
than they bargained for: A mind-boggling four-hour confession.

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.

"It was just too tempting to resist," Carlssin allegedly said in his
videotaped confession. "I had planned to make it look natural, you know,
lose a little here and there so it doesn't look too perfect. But I just
got caught in the moment."

In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge
"historical facts" such as the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden and a cure
for AIDS.

All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his "time craft."

However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how
it works, supposedly out of fear the technology could "fall into the
wrong hands."

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."

Weekly World News will continue to follow this story as it unfolds. Keep
watching for further developments.

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