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  • 2003-03-27 (xsd:date)
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  • 'Time-Traveler' Busted for Insider Trading? (no)
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  • All one need know about this video detailing the arrest of a 'time-traveling' stock trader is that it originated with the Weekly World News, an entertainment site devoted to inventing fantastically fictitious stories while keeping its tongue firmly embedded in its cheek to a depth not measurable by any instrument known to man: Unfortunately, back in 2003 when Yahoo! was a primary news source for many Internet users, they reprinted some Weekly World News articles in their TV News section under a heading of Entertainment News & Gossip, a title that didn't convey a strong bogus warning to readers who failed to notice the original source was the Weekly World News (or didn't know what the Weekly World News was). Despite this item's tabloid origins (and the fact that it was covered nowhere but in the Weekly World News), it showed up in a variety of magazines and newspapers, reprinted verbatim as a real news item — to the amusement and consternation of FBI and U.S. Security and Exchange Commission officials, who were flooded with a rash of inquiries from journalists seeking confirmation for a bit of fiction: As if this tale weren't already implausible enough on its face, the Edinburgh Evening News wryly noted: In a follow-up article in their 29 April 2003 issue, the Weekly World News reported that mysterious time-traveling Andrew Carlssin had been bailed out by an unidentified benefactor who ponied up $1 million, then jumped bail before an April 3 court hearing and disappeared without a trace. (en)
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