I thought the story was interesting, although the results were kind of depressing. A lot of people aren't really taking the whole identity theft thing seriously - I mean, she targeted that woman and seemed to think being hauled into court again was a big joke.
The Post ran a story abut a woman who, with her husband, were funding a pretty expensive life style through identity theft and fraud. She's out of jail and has written a book about it - a number of people wrote in outraged that they were giving this woman free publicity for her book, when she didn't seem particularly sorry for what she'd done.
And I have a form of identity theft protection - my office offers a legal services option (you pay a fee and there's a legal service you can call if you need help - seemingly it's good for getting cops to give up on iffy traffic stops), and they offer the identity theft protection at an additional fee. I get a monthly e-mail telling me if there's anything showing up about me on the credit bureaus.
This identity theft thing is making me feel bad about how the Winchesters make their money on SPN! Which I am now addicted to, although I am only through 3/4 of Season One.
When Officer Rickey Terrell arrived a moment later -- about 45 minutes after the chase began -- he, too, searched the Walgreens garage. He found Nelson crouched behind a car smoking a cigarette in front of an emergency exit.
Criminals are a superstitious, cowardly lot.
I did research on identity theft for one of my grad classes. It's actually one of the forms of crime that people aren't hysterical about (unlike murder or rape, where the incidents of reporting in the media are disproportionately high).
I guess that for one to become fully outraged about a case of identity theft, one would have to read a detailed story. For murder and rape, one might only have to read a headline.
I have nothing on identity theft, though IME family members commit it a lot.
Mr. Jane got those videos up. Here is my favorite. Baby Mr. Jane is adorkable (he's the guy in suspenders at the beginning). Skip to about 3/4 through to see our friend M, put his own special stamp on the evening (Mr. Jane forgot to mention that M also had to borrow that jacket in addition to the shoes and socks). [link]
a big woman, about 5 feet 10, maybe 150 pounds
Um, Big? Tall, maybe.
yeah, if I weighed that, I'd be a stick. Tyra weighed about that when she was modeling, if that tells you anything.
At my skinniest, I was 6' 3" and 130#. (This was when I was in high school.)
Um, Big? Tall, maybe.
By comparison. The victim was 5' 2" and 110 lbs, right?
