What in the world would the world do without goofy things and people?

Hey banks: This woman is alive!

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/08/hey-banks-this-woman-is-alive.html?GT1=43001

Digital death, while not common, isn't so unusual, he says.

"The most common cause of this is some smart guy trying to duck a debt collector by saying, 'I'm dead,'" he said. "And they get the number wrong."

It's true, Foley said: If a debt collector tells a credit bureau that a debtor is dead, that bureau will include the information in a credit report, and it will then filter through the entire credit system. There's no requirement for a death certificate, and — as with all credit bureau data — there's no fact-checking.

Foley said he's seen victims of digital death spend as long as 18 years trying to resuscitate their credit lives.

Two years ago, an msnbc.com investigation found that the Social Security Administration database is riddled with similar errors. A government report found that more than 1,000 people were being "killed" incorrectly every month. In some cases, appealing the decisions can take more than a year to complete.

Because Rivers' error has not reached the Social Security Administration — and her records there appear to be accurate — Foley believes her problem will be relatively easy to fix. The recipe:

"Get a letter from the Social Security Administration verifying you are alive and a letter from local police verifying your driver's license and send it in," he said. "The fix should find its way through the system relatively quickly."

That's assuming Chex Systems declares Rivers alive and kicking some time soon. For now, she remains in the middle of her digital murder mystery. And she may never know who, or what, wanted her dead in the first place.

"I just want my life back," she says. "And I want to be able to write a check."
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http://www.tmz.com/2010/08/27/wayne-newton-abandoned-jet-return-las-vegas/
Wayne Newton -- Park My Jet On My Lawn

8/29/2010 12:40 AM PDT by TMZ Staff

Wayne Newton has finally relocated the $2 million private jet he had previously abandoned at a Detroit airport three years ago ... and it's now right in his own backyard -- literally.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67U20X20100831
LONDON | Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:51am EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - The exceptionally dry early summer months in Britain have revealed the

ghostly outlines of several hundred previously unknown ancient sites buried in fields across the English countryside.
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