I want a time machine to go back and kill.

[Rev. Rye]

I'm surprised that, for all this talk about going back in time to kill people who annoy you, I'm the first person to bring this up: Jimmy Savile.

The man was most likely one of the most prolific sex offenders in human history since Caligula, and especially given that the BBC has gone out of its way to avoid showing any evidence that he did anything other than sexual assault, would anyone miss him if some time traveler took him out?

Shit, last year, a respected newsreader said on international TV that the greatest regret of his life was not killing him when he had the chance. Can you imagine anyone in his position saying anything like this about anyone else and getting away with it?

Then again, I wouldn't be surprised if such a thing is impossible. I remember looking at a list of verified Hitler assassination attempts, and, given how many of them failed in cartoonishly contrived ways, I am inclined to think that time travel is being invented constantly, and people from two different timestreams (one where Hitler survived until April 30, 1945 and another where he was replaced with someone worse) the do their hardest to work against each other, leading to his continued survival.