I was in Vegas when as far as anyone knew, Tony met the FBI guy for the first time(of course with all that's happened, who really knows how long they'd known each other). There was lots of whispering among all of us their about who's that, he's supposedly with the FBI, oh really, wooooo LOLOL. Then one guy that had been near Royer comes to me a little later and says "did you see his business card?" "Nope" "It had a f*cking hot air balloon on it." "What, it wasn't FBI." "Maybe, but it had a picture of a hot air balloon on it, doesn't that seem odd?" "Uh, yeah, it does."
Now maybe this is what the New Mexico FBI office has on their cards, since they have the big balloon festival in Albuquerque, but at the time, me and some other laughed among ourselves that this guy musta made his business cards at kinko's and got his badge from a box of Cracker Jacks, and hell with Tony you just never knew, he attracted that element of person.
Then sometime later on the site, one day Tony posts or maybe it was audio, but it was to the effect.
"I have some horrible news."
"Many of you met an FBI agent in Vegas a few weeks back, there's been a shooting."
Then a big long pause, what the hell he was thinking I don't know, and everyone is feeling bummed that this dude got gunned down. A few of us sickos are thinking, well that's the perfect way for an imaginary FBI agent to go, maybe thwart a plot to kill the president, or something. Then Tony finally finishes
"That agents partner was killed last night."
Well first of all I laughed, because it was sad if true, but it was typical Tony to have the long pause and have everyone thinking this guy got killed, and then it's someone no one has ever met or even heard of.
Then, later that same day and in days to follow, many of us tried to find a report of an FBI agent being killed on the wires, and we couldn't and we searched news stories in New Mexico, Arizona, Cali., etc and couldn't find anything that fit what we were being told, and so it was just one more thing you heard on the AP site that when really looked into, didn't turn out. Now for all I know there really was a partner shot, but some real good diggers couldn't find it at that time.
This all goes to show, if you were not on his site, or even if you were, and you didn't communicate in private with other traders, and you didn't line up regularily to drink the kool aid, you really can't have a clue as to the mindset of things. Ask why many on the site didn't report anything. Well it's because many of us didn't believe it, and the kool aid drinking sheeple that did follow eveything that Tony said like it was the Dalai Lama saying it, well they trusted Tony when he said don't worry, trust me. |
