Homeless Man Leaves Behind Surprise: $4 Million

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by sleepingbot • 16 years ago

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zafka• 16 years ago

Thanks for this post. An uplifting article to start my Friday. While I know I am romanticizing the story in my mind, the blurb sort of translates into the last line of a Haiku.

arethuza• 16 years ago

What a great post.

Reminds me of this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314070/Eileen-Nearn...

Imagine being a spy in WW2, dropped into occupied France, captured by the Gestapo, put in prison camps and repeatedly escaping and never mentioning it to anyone!

RexRollman• 16 years ago

Agreed. I read that story when it was on Reddit and it was probably the best thing I've read this month, along with this one.

edd• 16 years ago

Posted and "[dead]"ed yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744855

raganwald2• 16 years ago

Why would it be killed? At first glance this looks like someone who hacked the system to have no permanent address, yet was able to execute financial trades.

That seems masterful to me.

mquander• 16 years ago

I was unaware that being homeless was now considered "hacking the system to have no permanent address." I agree, however, that he demonstrated considerable mastery of the telephone at the senior center.

eru• 16 years ago

> "He was an atheist and I'm a very profound practicing Catholic, and I'd never met an atheist," Belle says. "And that just blew my mind that somebody could not believe in the Lord."

I guess she doesn't believe in the existence of, say, India or China or Japan either?

hugh3• 16 years ago

A conspiracy of cartographers.

jobeyonekenobi• 16 years ago

I would find it very enlightening to find out what kind of organisation system he used for his trades/paperwork. Did he have a stash somewhere where he could store documents? Did he have a PO Box?

How would people on HN organise themselves without any permanent address...or by the looks of it, laptop/smart phone/access to computer, whilst tending to a portfolio that would end up being in excess of $4 million?

ahi• 16 years ago

Probably did it the old fashioned way, called his broker.

Homeless Man Leaves Behind Surprise: $4 Million

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