Hope she took advantage of the HOV lane

COSTA MESA – A woman drove for months with a dead mummified body in her passenger’s seat before the body was discovered by police, authorities said.

Police are still trying to determine the exact cause and time of death of the unidentified woman, but the body of the woman had withered to roughly 30 pounds by the time it was discovered, authorities said.

Costa Mesa Police officials declined to identified the driver of the midnight-blue 1997 Mercury Marquis, but said she was a 57-year-old former real estate agent who at one time lived in a home in Corona del Mar.

After finding the body inside the four-door vehicle, the woman told investigators she was afraid to report the body to police, and instead decided to continue using the vehicle while the body sat covered in clothes on the passenger’s side.

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Why Blockbuster is almost belly up

Unlike Netflix, they refused to the writing on the wall that streaming is the way to go.

Netflix reported revenue of $553.2 million, a 31 percent increase since last year and a 6 percent jump from last quarter. Profit landed at $38 million, a 26 percent increase from last year.

The company now has 16.9 million subscribers, up 52 percent from the 11.1 million customers it had last year and up 13 percent from the 15 million it had last quarter. Of that 16.9 million, 94 percent are paid subscribers.

Though Netflix still spends between $500 million and $600 million each year mailing its DVDs to customers, chief executive Reed Hastings said its future was streaming.

“By every measure, we are now a streaming company, which also offers DVD-by-mail,” he said in a statement. “In Q4, we’ll spend more on streaming content than DVD content, and we’ll deliver many more hours of entertainment via streaming than on DVD.”

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