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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:38 am

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49305387,00.htm

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A would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. Eloi Cole, a strangely dressed young man, said that he had travelled back in time to prevent the LHC from destroying the world.

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:44 am

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"...It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I'm here to stop it ever happening."

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"... was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin."

I wonder if he's a Doctor... Wink

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:55 am

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Bless him, he sounds harmless enough. At least he didn't mention bloody black holes.

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Mr Cole was taken to a secure mental health facility in Geneva but later disappeared from his cell. Police are baffled, but not that bothered.

Albeit he wasn't expecting that! Laughing

He confused the cops too! Wink

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:14 am

Duh. He went back to the future.

Very Happy

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:51 am

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Mr Cole was taken to a secure mental health facility in Geneva but later disappeared from his cell. Police are baffled, but not that bothered.

Anyone remember the DATE ?

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 5:42 am

A classic, and wonderful, short story by Jack Finney, written 50 years ago but still timely:

http://homepage.mac.com/cssfan/jackfinney/col510106020.htm

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:24 pm

^^^ That is a good story. I enjoyed it. Thanks.

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:47 pm

Hmm, did they happen to notice a blue police phone box anywhere nearby at the time? Rolling Eyes

Or judging by the description of his "Time machine power unit", maybe it was a Delorean Wink

Then again the "April 1st" date on the article makes me a bit sceptical... Nice one though Very Happy

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:07 pm

good read, few puns hiden there too.
Eloi would be the dudes out of 'the time machine' if i remember correctly, I will have to look it up.

edit: i do remember correctly.

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The Time Traveller tests his device with a journey that takes him to the year A.D. 802,701, where he meets the Eloi, a society of small, elegant, androgynous, and childlike people.

Wiki: H.G. Wells The time machine.

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:53 pm

if there ever is an invasion from space it will happen on April 1st

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:03 pm

best time for it: nobody will believe it and the aliens will just march in with their anal probes and mind control rays and monster all over us Sad

Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:29 pm

I hate to admit it, but I actually thought this story was genuine for a while there. Laughing

Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:32 am

next year some people will ship a TARDIS replica to Geneva and derss up propperly, and "try" to destroy the LHC with a salt shaker.

I doubt the security personell are geeky enough to get the referrence.

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:46 am

Quick, someone find the TARDIS Smile

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