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"Time-Traveler" Busted For Insider Trading

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-the-rounds dept.

Chester sent in a story that has been making the rounds for a bit, but if you haven't bumped into it, "Yahoo! TV came up with this weird story about a guy who caught police's attention by gaining $350 million from mere $800 in two weeks. The twisted part is that he justifies his knowledge about stocks by saying he is a time-traveler from year 2256!"

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  1. Re:No basis in fact, 100% fiction by calbanese · · Score: 5, Informative

    And for more info, you can read more on this at Snopes.

  2. m/Weekly World News/ ? : '!' : '?' by phyxeld · · Score: 5, Informative

    Can anyone explain to me how this story got so big? I've had a few people send me links, and I've seen it on a few sites... Now slashdot even has it! I mean, WHAT THE FUCK?

    It's the WEEKLY WORLD NEWS, people!
    (Yes, the tabliod refered to as "The Paper" in So I Married An Axe Murderer)

    Now that yahoo is syndicating them, there are lots of bullshit stories filled into the yahoo news templates. What makes this one so special that it gets on slashdot? And how many people forwarding it don't actually realize it's from the WWN? I mean, this is the publication that brought us Bat Boy , and the Clinton's Alien Baby stories. And now some crap about a time traveler makes slashdot?

    It makes no sense.

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