Andrew Carlssin invested $800 in the stock market. Within two weeks his portfolio was worth over $350 million. SEC officials arrested Carlssin claiming he must have had illegal insider information. Carlssin claimed the reason for his atypical success was simple: he’s a time traveler from 2256. SEC officials say it’s preposterous, but can’t explain why there’s no record of him before December 2002.
The validity of the story is questionable, but that’s one imaginative excuse.
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Makes me wish for supernatural abilities like that! The only thing I can ever predict is that my next paycheck is spent before I get it. HA
http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/insider.htm
Bummer…
I knew it wasn’t true (I put it in the entertainment category rather than news) but I loved his excuse.
Man, you mean Bat Boy isn’t real either? What’s the world coming to when you can’t believe what you read on the internet? ;)
Seriously, I was a little confused by some of these Yahoo stories until I realized they were carrying supermarket tabloids. The Weekly World News is a good source for an occasional chuckle, but certainly not real news.
I love it in “So I married an ax murderer” when Mike Myers expresses concern over his mother referring to the Weekly World News as “the paper.”
happy Birthday Dan!
Renee,
I was going to mention that instead of saying it was questionable. I love her response, something about its readership.
Happy – Thanks.
I don’t know what you people are talking about. Of course it’s true; Alien abductions, time travel, Sasquatch, Easter Bunny. Remember that time I lost an hour on my watch in the Desert down in Moab? I can’t prove it, but I was abducted by aliens and probed in humiliating ways.
I don’t know what you people are talking about. Of course it’s true; Alien abductions, time travel, Sasquatch, Easter Bunny. Remember that time I lost an hour on my watch in the Desert down in Moab? I can’t prove it, but I was abducted by aliens and probed in humiliating ways.
ah, sweet merciful crap! Sorry about the double post. It was the aliens…
I once met the easter bunny…