[ale] Have you seen these guys?

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REMAINING U.S. CEOs MAKE A BREAK FOR IT
Band of Roving Chief Executives Spotted Miles from Mexican Border
San Antonio, Texas (Reuters)

Unwilling to wait for their eventual indictments, the 10,000 remaining
CEOs
of public U.S. companies made a break for it yesterday, heading for the
Mexican border, plundering towns and villages along the way, and writing
the
entire rampage off as a marketing expense.

"They came into my home, made me pay for my own TV, then double-booked
the
revenues," said Rachel Sanchez of Las Cruces, just north of El Paso.
"Right
in front of my daughters."

Calling themselves the CEOnistas, the chief executives were first
spotted
last night along the Rio Grande River near Quemado, where they bought
each
of the town's 320 residents by borrowing against pension fund gains. By
late
this morning, the CEOnistas had arbitrarily inflated Quemado's
population to
960, and declared a 200 percent profit for the fiscal second quarter.

This morning, the outlaws bought the city of Waco, transferred its
underperforming areas to a private partnership, and sent a bill to
California for $4.5 billion.

Law enforcement officials and disgruntled shareholders riding posse were
noticeably frustrated.

"First of all, they're very hard to find because they always stand
behind
their numbers, and the numbers keep shifting," said posse spokesman Dean
Lewitt. "And every time we yell 'Stop in the name of the shareholders!'
they
refer us to investor relations. I've been on the phone all damn
morning."

"YOU'LL NEVER AUDIT ME ALIVE!" they scream. The pursuers said they have
had
some success, however, by preying on a common executive weakness. "Last
night we caught about 24 of them by disguising one of our female
officers as
a CNBC anchor," said U.S. Border Patrol spokesperson Janet Lewis. "It
was
like moths to a flame."

Also, teams of agents have been using high-powered listening devices to
scan
the plains for telltale sounds of the CEOnistas. "Most of the time we
just
hear leaves rustling or cattle flicking their tails," said Lewis, "but
occasionally we'll pick up someone saying, 'I was totally out of the
loop on
that."

Among former and current CEOs apprehended with this method were Computer
Associates' Sanjay Kumar, Adelphia's John Rigas, Enron's Ken Lay, Joseph
Nacchio of Qwest, Joseph Berardino of Arthur Andersen, and every Global
Crossing CEO since 1997. ImClone Systems' Sam Waksal and Dennis
Kozlowski of
Tyco were not allowed to join the CEOnistas as they have already been
indicted.

So far, about 50 chief executives have been captured, including Martha
Stewart, who was detained south of El Paso where she had cut through a
barbed-wire fence at the Zaragosa border crossing off Highway 375.  "She
would have gotten away, but she was stopping motorists to ask for
marzipan
and food coloring so she could make edible snowman place settings, using
the
cut pieces of wire for the arms," said Border Patrol officer Jenette
Cushing. "We put her in cell No. 7, because the morning sun really adds
texture to the stucco walls."

While some stragglers are believed to have successfully crossed into
Mexico,
Cushing said the bulk of the CEOnistas have holed themselves up at the
Alamo. "No, not the fort, the car rental place at the airport," she
said.
"They're rotating all the tires on the minivans and accounting for each
change as a sale."


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