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Internet Tom - by Bob Miller

This is a true story about a man who ended up with a horn of plenty, but traded it in for a few moments of glory. Tom had an above average IQ and even though he was one of the best in his field, one employer after another had to replace him with someone with half his abilities because he knew he was smarter than his fellow workers and not for a second did he let them forget it.

It wasn’t long before he had ran out of job offers and his wife had to go to work because the unemployment insurance wasn’t going to last forever. That left Tom at home alone and really angry.

How and why he ended up on the Yahoo financial group message boards was anyone’s guess, because he was broke and had never owned any stocks. He did have a lot of knowledge about most of the major companies in his former career field. And with his super IQ, it wasn’t long before he had the investment jargon down pat and had formulated a get even plan.

His goal apparently was to cause his former employers as much misery and heartaches as possible. Despite what one might believe, it’s possible to do a lot of damage to a publicly traded company if you’re knowledgeable of things that a company is trying to keep from the public.

Tom knew what he was talking about and, as his bad luck would have it, he made some predictions that were right on the money. The problem was all his newfound friends were making money using his advice while he wasn’t making a dime. However, his low self-esteem and ego loved the attention, but these things don’t pay any bills, so Tom stopped making online predictions.

Legal gambling establishments like casinos and the stock market provide people with a lot of dirty money a means of washing it. One such person had been using Tom’s picks to do just that. And even though Tom had been using an alias, it didn’t take this man long to learn more about Tom than Tom’s mother knew about him. It wasn’t long before Tom and an employee of this investor were having lunch. It was a lunch that Tom couldn’t have paid for, but that wouldn’t have been an option anyway since the lunch and an envelope containing ten $100 bills were presented to Tom who had agreed to provide his benefactor with timely investment information. For a little while Tom kept his part of the bargain, but true to his nature, Tom let it be known that he was the genius and a bigger piece of the pie would be needed to retain his services in the future. When his demand was rejected, Tom did a very naughty thing. He advised his investor to make a large purchase that he knew would be a loser.

Tom’s childish revenge stunt would have gone unpunished because this man knew the risk and didn’t hold an honest miscalculation against Tom. But Tom being Tom, he just had to let this guy know that he had done it on purpose. On returning from work a few days later, Tom’s wife found him slumped over his computer with two bullet holes in his head. No arrests were ever made.

Biography: Bob Miller was born in Florence, Alabama. Miller served as a pilot in Vietnam in 1968-69 and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. Challenged Richard Shelby for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1992. Produced the television show, The Late Show (BLAB 2001). Worked as the golf pro on Holland America's ms Westerdam. Bob Miller is America's most controversial writer and has authored seven books.