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<blockquote data-quote="Samstwitch" data-source="post: 73078" data-attributes="member: 2770"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">I just stumbled onto this information and thought it would be worth posting when I remembered this thread on the Time Traveler who was busted for Insider Trading. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">According to Wikipedia, this story originated in the <em>Weekly World News</em>, which has a bad reputation for publishing fake stories. So it seams the mystery has been solved, unless it's true and the government wants us to think it's a hoax. Now that's believable! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">WIKIPEDIA: Andrew Carlssin is a fictitious person who was reportedly arrested in January 2002 for SEC violations for making 126 high-risk stock trades and being successful on every one. As reported, Carlssin started with an initial investment of $800 and ended with over $350,000,000, which drew the attention of the SEC. Later reports suggest that after his arrest, he submitted a four-hour confession wherein he claimed to be a time traveler from 200 years in the future. He offered to tell investigators such things as the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and the cure for AIDS in return for a lesser punishment and to be allowed to return to his time craft, although he refused to tell investigators the location or workings of his craft.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #00b3b3">The Carlssin story originated as a fictional piece in Weekly World News a satirical newspaper, and was later repeated by Yahoo! News, where its fictitious nature became less apparent. It was soon reported by other newspapers and magazines as fact. This in turn drove word-of-mouth spread through email inboxes and internet forums, leading to far more detailed descriptions of events.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Here's a copy of the original article:</span></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1086[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Samstwitch, post: 73078, member: 2770"] [SIZE=4]I just stumbled onto this information and thought it would be worth posting when I remembered this thread on the Time Traveler who was busted for Insider Trading. According to Wikipedia, this story originated in the [I]Weekly World News[/I], which has a bad reputation for publishing fake stories. So it seams the mystery has been solved, unless it's true and the government wants us to think it's a hoax. Now that's believable! [/SIZE] [INDENT][SIZE=4][COLOR=#00b3b3]WIKIPEDIA: Andrew Carlssin is a fictitious person who was reportedly arrested in January 2002 for SEC violations for making 126 high-risk stock trades and being successful on every one. As reported, Carlssin started with an initial investment of $800 and ended with over $350,000,000, which drew the attention of the SEC. Later reports suggest that after his arrest, he submitted a four-hour confession wherein he claimed to be a time traveler from 200 years in the future. He offered to tell investigators such things as the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and the cure for AIDS in return for a lesser punishment and to be allowed to return to his time craft, although he refused to tell investigators the location or workings of his craft. The Carlssin story originated as a fictional piece in Weekly World News a satirical newspaper, and was later repeated by Yahoo! News, where its fictitious nature became less apparent. It was soon reported by other newspapers and magazines as fact. This in turn drove word-of-mouth spread through email inboxes and internet forums, leading to far more detailed descriptions of events.[/COLOR] [/SIZE][/INDENT] [SIZE=4]Here's a copy of the original article:[/SIZE] [ATTACH=full]1086[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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