@iv wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
Ran across this today. I hope this goes here.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/WaterCooler/story?id=411883&page=1
"Walter Cavanagh has 1,497 valid credit cards -- all of which amount to a $1.7 million line of credit.
Currently, he holds the record for the most credit cards and for the world's longest wallet, which stretches 250 feet, weighs about 38 pounds and can hold 800 cards. But he keeps most of them in bank safe-deposit boxes.
The "Guinness Book of World Records" gave him the title "Mr. Plastic Fantastic," and he has been in the book every year since 1971."
From that article... "If the cards aren't valid anymore, Cavanagh doesn't count them in his total collection. He assumes they are valid until he's told otherwise."
So... yeah. Odds of most of those 1497 still being active/valid? Low.
Considering he died in 2007, it's even more unlikely that any are still active. All of these news stories are just rehashing the 2004 L.A. Times story because Guinness decided to feature this record on their website and so called journalists are too lazy to do even the most meager of fact checking.
