REMAINING U.S. CEOs MAKE A BREAK FOR IT

Band of Roving Chief Executives Spotted Miles from
Mexican Border San Antonio, Texas (SatireWire.com)

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 Levitt. "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!"

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 Jennette 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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