Tuesday, April 01, 2003
NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Have SEC authorities detained someone who claims that his astounding success on Wall Street was due to time travel?
The story is making its way around the blogosphere with typical speed. There are some indications that the story may be a hoax but since snopes.com appears to be down I can't verify this.
UPDATE: Snopes has the dirt, the story is originally from the Weekly World News and is false.
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 story is making its way around the blogosphere with typical speed. There are some indications that the story may be a hoax but since snopes.com appears to be down I can't verify this.
UPDATE: Snopes has the dirt, the story is originally from the Weekly World News and is false.
