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Top Ten Things to Do With Your Enron Stock Certificate

By Ryan Totka |  Site

   About a year ago, Enron (ENE) looked like a solid company. They were formerly the 7th largest company in the world. If you owned the stock, you held a certificate that was, at one time, worth as much as $80 per share. While employees were not allowed to sell their stocks in their pension funds, many top executives were making illegal transactions. So now that their head honchos are sweating bullets for being accused of practicing illegal accounting activities, a.k.a. known as "cooking the books", shareholders and employees are not very happy with them. Billions of dollars were lost, as well as the retirement funds of thousands of Enron employees and investors. Now that the stock certificate is worth about the price of a pack of Juicy Fruit (No offense to Wrigley's), it is not even worth the piece of paper it's written on. Or is it? Instead of weeping because of your misfortune, have some fun with it. Here are some ways. Here is my list of the Top 10 things you can do with your Enron stock certificate.

1) Use it for sanitary disposal and other bathroom activities
2) Put it on eBay and make more than the stock is worth. Anything Enron are hot sellers on eBay.
3) Mail them to Enron, CEO Kenneth Lay to use as wallpaper for his new house
4) Make an Enron Paper Airplane (never mind, it would probably crash)
5) Start a crane game at a supermarket, filled with dead dot coms and Enron stock certs
6) Great target practice for the shooting range. Owners could also put a Kenneth Lay face for the bulls eye
7) Tear off the front and back page of an Enron Annual Report, staple to 5 certificates and give it to kids as a coloring book.
8) Go to Kissimmee, FL where the Houston Astros train and let the players hit locker room batting practice with the crumpled stock certificate. (The Astros play at Enron field in Houston)
9) Give stock certificates to the 1st 1000 fans at all Dallas Cowboys, Rockets and Houston Astros games
(Only problem is that fans would throw them on the field)
10) Send it to Arthur Andersen to shred (since they are so good at shredding stuff)

   If this winter is cold and you need to keep your fireplace going, call up their headquarters to get a few annual reports. Here is some helpful information straight from their website.

For more information on earnings and financial information, please send your written request to:

Enron Corp.
Investor Relations Dept.
P.O. Box 1188, Suite 4926B
Houston, TX 77251-1188
(713) 853-3956

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