Posted by Carolyn Bodley on 4/24/07 5:33pm
Msg #186785

Last night on the news ...

The following is cut/pasted from 9news.com, a local Denver TV station. It does not say on their web page, but on the 10:00 news last night, jail prisoners "secured" the boxes of files that were left in a parking lot. hmmmm, I don't know what worries me more - the documents being dumped in a parking lot or jail prisoners securing them.

"A "human error" apparently was also the reason that hundreds of mortgage application records were left un-shredded in a dumpster on east Evans Avenue. A 9NEWS viewer saw the records and discovered they contained names, bank account records, and IRS tax documents. The files belonged to Southern Mortgage Corporation of Greenwood Village.

Manager Ed Summerhill said they were dead files that had been stored in a warehouse on Evans.

He said he was stunned to learn they had been discarded by another tenant, apparently as the result of workmen taking the wrong file boxes.

The dumpster on East Evans was emptied before the mortgage files could be retrieved."