Snopes.com says this is true: A bank issued a credit card to a TREE!

[UrbScotty]

Recent changes to U.S. bankruptcy laws have made it more attractive for banks to offer credit cards to customers they might ordinarily have spurned (such as those just emerging from bankruptcy) or to offer more credit to existing customers. One result of this change is that many people have been seeing a flurry of credit card solicitations from various lenders in their daily mail.

One such person, a West Hollywood realtor by the name of Gary More, grew annoyed at the plethora of unwanted credit card applications he was receiving and tried calling the issuers to put a stop to all the junk mail. After that approach failed to achieve the desired results, he took one of the many unwanted solicitations in hand, scrawled the words "Never waste a tree" across it (as his way of telling the sender to stop wasting paper), and mailed it in.

And then ... you guessed it, Mr. More received a credit card from Chase Visa, issued to one "Never Waste Tree":

http://snopes.com/business/bank/treecard.asp