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Saras is offline Saras
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Vilnius, Lithuania
Apr 1999
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'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.

Lancer is offline Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
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If he was truly a time traveler he would have known of his arrest because in his time, it's history, right?

Seeker is offline Seeker
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Jan 1970
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The Weekly World News should read more Phillip K **** to help them iron out some of their storie's TT paradoxes.

Az is offline Az
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Apr 2000
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  Old Post 25-04-2003 19:53
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No way I am falling for this one ........

















again.

DanS is offline DanS
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Kickball Capital of the World
Jan 1970
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"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."



This is great.

Ming is offline Ming
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Jan 1970
time: 23:27
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The Weekly World News should read more Phillip K **** to help them iron out some of their storie's TT paradoxes.




So true...

Kropotkin is offline Kropotkin
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Mar 1999
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I'm not a guy that deals on the stock market. However to me 126 high-risk trades in a row with positive results seems to be quite a impressive result even with inside information.

Ben Kenobi is offline Ben Kenobi
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Oct 2002
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Put an end to popups!

This has been done already.

Who can find the old thread?

GePap is offline GePap
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Nov 2001
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Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

It would be much more interesting if a real new source had reported it.

Solver is offline Solver
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Sep 2000
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Yes, I remember the old thread, and then it actually made me excited. But it has already been confirmed as a hoax, though...

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Jun 2002
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What an idiot (Carlssin). Who needs that amount of money!? He should of just taken it slow. Jeese... He should of just bet on sports... No SEC

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