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To: Tom Hua who wrote (17048)	12/7/2001 9:58:56 AM
From: rogermci®	Respond to of 19633

Bought a trading long at 56.25 in THQI. Was at 65 on Wednesday. roger

To: Tom Hua who wrote (17048)	12/7/2001 10:12:40 AM
From: KaiserSosze	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19633

Tom, Any short term target on SUNW, or for those puts your holding? Regards, Kaiser

To: Tom Hua who wrote (17048)	12/7/2001 11:19:43 AM
From: xcr600	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19633

OT-- but this story is incredible.. pioneerplanet.com Woman dies hunting fictitious "Fargo' loot BY BILL GARDNER Pioneer Press Kidnappers in the movie "Fargo" buried the $1 million ransom in the snow along a desolate highway, and nobody ever found it. But a 28-year-old Japanese woman apparently died trying last month. Takako Konishi flew from her home in Tokyo to the Twin Cities last month and boarded a bus for Bismarck, N.D. The next day, Nov. 10, she was spotted walking along a road near a Bismarck truck stop. "She was just walking around out there," said Bismarck Police Lt. Nick Sevart. "She looked like she was looking for something or lost." A citizen took her to the police department, where she pulled out a hand-scrawled map and told officers in her halting English that she had seen "Fargo" and was looking for the ransom money. "It was just a drawing of a road down the center and a tree off to one side," Sevart said. "That was her map to where the money was buried in the movie "Fargo.' " The woman spoke very little English, and the officers spoke no Japanese. "They tried to explain to her this was just a movie," Sevart said. "It was fictional." That may have been hard to explain as the movie's opening credits said it was based on a true story that happened in Minnesota in 1987. No such event took place, however. After talking with Bismarck police, Konishi decided to go to Fargo, N.D. Police took her to the bus station. "She bought a bus ticket to Fargo, and that's the last we saw her," Sevart said. Two days later, on Nov. 12, Konishi took a cab from Fargo to Detroit Lakes, Minn. Apparently, she was interested in trying to see the Leonid meteor showers that were in the news about then, said Detroit Lakes Police Chief Kelvin Keena. "She told the cabdriver she wanted to be away from people and away from city lights so she would have a better opportunity to stargaze," Keena said. The cabdriver let her out about 2 p.m. at Detroit Lake on the southern edge of Detroit Lakes. She apparently made no arrangement to be picked up later, Keena said. Detroit Lake has cabins and homes all around it, but no one reported seeing Konishi. Three days later, on Nov. 15, a bowhunter discovered Konishi's body about a mile from where the cabdriver let her off. The cause of her death is being investigated by the Ramsey County medical examiner. Toxicology tests are still pending. "There was nothing obvious," Keena said. Keena said the woman might have died of exposure. Two nights before her body was discovered, the temperature dipped to 26 degrees. "That's pretty darn cold unless you are prepared for it," he said. Investigators haven't come up with any reason that Konishi came to North Dakota and Minnesota except to look for the ransom money from the 1996 movie, a product of filmmaking brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, originally of St. Louis Park, MN. And why she looked in Bismarck is a mystery. The movie was set in Fargo, the Twin Cities and Brainerd. "That's what we were wondering, why she even came to Bismarck because that's not in the movie," Sevart said. "Otherwise, they would have named it "Bismarck.' '' Bill Gardner can be reached at wgardner@pioneerpress.com or (651) 228-5461.