Trapped - Fer Reals?

"They were literally trapped inside of a car..." -- Jaie Avila, WOAI TV, 8/20/07

I'm gonna LITERALLY kill someone

If I hear one more idiot misuse literally, all hell is going to break loose. On the news an elected public official said; not once, not twice, but THREE times..."I literally died." Well hell, doesn't that make you a freaking ghost????
Idiots.

Literally?

Airhead model being interviewed on some news show here in Dallas. She's blathering about something or other that frightened her and says, "My heart literally stopped beating. I literally quit breathing." Geeze, I think that would make you literally dead.