Ever cross your mind how people could disappear and take a new identity

[onecent]

during a time like this?

[Shell Beau]

1. No, that never did cross my mind!

:shrug:

[MissMillie]

2. I imagine that it's possible

but considering how difficult it was for my 18 year old kid to get a photo I.D. recently,....

[evlbstrd]

3. Funny you should mention that.

I lost my job yesterday, and am considering doing just that.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

5. I'm sorry

[evlbstrd]

6. Thanks.

I'm hoping it was for the best. A reason for everything and all that.

[KitchenWitch]

4. I suppose it is possible

but things like SSN and other ID considerations would make it hard for the average person to do it.

[SOteric]

7. I dunno, there's a lot of folks who don't know their SSN, and

in a situation like Katrina, you've got a mass of people without homes, documents, often without ID. I think it's possible one could just slip into the mass and come out with a new identity.

[KitchenWitch]

8. Without a birth certificate, or certificate of naturalization

I think it would be difficult to get a new SSN, and therefore a new identity.

[SOteric]

10. I understand that, but think about it...

Let's say a quarter of the population of those dislocated by Katrina doesn't actually know their social security number and another quarter of those didn't have the opportunity to grab any ID on their way out, - just kids, cash and the clothes on their backs.

Now, it's pretty obvious these people are Americans, but they don't have a birth certificate, or any ID. They're just sitting in front of an officiious-looking person saying "My name is Joe Brown, I'm from Metarie, LA and I don't know my SSN number." Odds are excellent the SSN folks will be able to either furnish Joe Brown with a temporary SSN number, or look into their vast files and tell Joe Brown of Metarie what his SSN is and submit him for a replacement card.

Now assume Joe Brown is actually Freddy Jones of Long Beach, CA and he picked Joe Brown's name off of one of those internet 'still searching' lists.

[KitchenWitch]

11. I get it now!

I guess I just do not have that devious of a mindset.

[Cathyclysmic]

9. It would be very easy...

I guess we are the only ones that thought of that? Are we sick or what?