"I said to him, 'You're a little late there, buddy.' Then I arrested him, in case he had anything to do with that other time traveler trying to make a fortune on today's stock markert," said Officer Cromwell, deputy sheriff.

The traveler Washington Garfield was walking around carrying a sign that said "Prevent September 11! Elect Al Gore!" and passing out Gore/Lieberman 2000 campaign buttons.

"It seemed like a good idea at the time," Garfield told us as we spoke to him in jail, "Until I realized that these people in 2003 couldn't go back in time and tell themselves to vote for Gore. The world now is so different than it is in the year 2526."

"The police can't do anything to him, since he's not currently registered as a U.S. citizen," Garfield's lawyer claimed. "They can only slap him on the wrist and deport him."

According to Garfield, President Bush is responsible for the attacks on the World Trade Center. "I'd like to see how history would be different if this had never happened. The explosins really bothered the Kuborkian aliens, thus delaying their landing by fifty years. Contact with them has made us a much better society."

The time traveler was secretly escorted to his time machine by adoring fans before we could interview him further.

"I loved the guy, you know. Well, not remantically, but, you know, okay, I loved him romantically," a member of his escort told us. "This is the first time he visited us, but I keep, you know, dreaming that he'll come back and take us to, you know the future. You, you know, know."

Nothing has been proved yet, but time travelers like this one, have been suspected of stealing the Loch Ness monster.