OOOOOOOOOHHH!!!!! I forgot about the time traveller I worked with.
We hired a scrap cutter to work in our yard one year, and after a few months he comes in and asks if he can have a few pieces of metal. No problem I thought, maybe he's an artist.
A few months later I hear from one of the guys in the shop that the reason he needed scrap metal was for his time machine. He didn't want to tell me himself, because I might think he was crazy. Yeah, imagine that.....
Then I hear that he bought a lie detector machine so he could predict lottery numbers. I was WAY to intrigued to let this one by, so I asked him about it. His scheme went like this:
- He would connect himself to the lie detector before he went to bed, and a recording would play the numbers 1 through 69.
- He would then correlate the number readings to impulses recorded on the lie detector, and then write them down.
- He would then point at the numbers individually, and take a black and white photo of each number that he pointed at.
-after developing each photo, he said there was a bolt of light coming off his fingertip (that was caught in the photo), and those were the numbers that were coming up in the next 649.
He was a little perturbed when I asked him why he needed to do all that, seeing as he owned a time machine and could simply go forward a week, get the results, and then come back in time and win the lottery...
No word of a lie however, I saw him on a TV show that was profiling lottery winners about a year ago. Either he won the lottery (unlikely) or he lied his way on the show (most likely). I'll never know though, he quit to run a bunch of condos.