How I Saved Warren Buffet’s Life
On November 20, 2006, Warren Buffet was on CNBC saying that he had no personal security, wandered around Omaha with no escort, and said: “Nobody’s out to get me.” He drove by his house with the CNBC reporter, and they showed the house on TV several times as the piece repeated over the next few days.
After I saw that, I went into misc.invest.stocks and wrote a post about how Eddie Lampert, CEO of Sears, was himself kidnapped in 2003. I suggested that somebody pass on my advice for Mr. Buffet to get himself some security, which he eventually did. And it was a good thing because on September 6, 2007, somebody did try to break into his house while he and his wife were at home.
Did my advice reach Buffet? I don’t know, but CNBC people do troll misc.invest.stocks for story ideas, and they have Mr. Buffet on frequently, so there is a good chance that one of them mentioned it to him.
Click here for the news story of the Buffet break-in attempt.
Click here for my original post archived in Google Groups.
If my post did influence Mr. Buffet to hire that security guard, a gratuity might be in order, right?
March 25th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Here’s your ‘gratuity’: An Investment ‘Tip’ and old stock broker gave me when I started to invest while in my twenties “Save your money until you are at least 40- you will only ‘gamble’ away your ‘investments’ before that age!
March 25th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Nice try, but I’m already 48. That does sound like something Buffet would say though, and certainly would have helped me if I had heard it 20 years ago.