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    Earlier today (about 8:00 pm), I was supervising for the evening, and was cleaning up around SCO because the girl down there is new and doesn't really do anything unless told, and while she was doing coupons for someone, one of the stations popped up a request to check ID. The guy it was for was trying to ring up some beer, and looked about college aged. He didn't have any ID, of course, but told me he could give me his date of birth. He also said he was a lawyer, and must have left it in his briefcase. But he didn't have time to go get it because he had to be at the gym in a few minutes. Of course. I think I'll hang onto that beer for now.

    Anyone else heard excuses this bad?
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    Yup, I carded someone who was in a Security officers (NOT police) Uniform. She claimed that she left her ID in the patrol car but that her badge was good enough for me to sell the wine to her. Um .. Yeah.. NO! .. She was not happy at all and threatened to go my manager. I called the SM over and all SM said was that since I said no, I could not sell to them without ID. That is the one time that I saw management at that store totally back the employee.

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    • #3
      Ha, back when I used to work at a pharmacy, I worked the front counter where we sold cigarettes. I was 17 at the time and some kid came up to me that looked about my age. He asked for cigarettes so I asked for ID. He threw a bitchfit, but then finally handed over his ID. It was a piece of regular 8.5" X 11", with some basic info on it, nothing official, nor did it have any picture. It also said he was 17, which is a year short of the age to buy cigarettes. I informed him of this and he told me that since his birthday was really close (by really close he meant 6 months) I should just sell them to him. Obviously he walked out empty handed.
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      • #4
        I fear I haven't had any really funny (lame) scam attempts, but I do have a lot of people thinking their student or work ID qualifies as legitimate ID for the sale of tobacco/alcohol.
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        • #5
          Once at the gas station, a kid who graduated a year after me (so at this time, that would make me 18 and him 17) tried to buy cigarettes with his father's ID or some older guy's ID...
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          • #6
            If you'll go into Crazed Clerk's Real SC's of genius you'll see my entry on Mr-Fake-Homeland-Security-Agent. That sums it up pretty nicely.

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            • #7
              Well it wasn't a bad excuse, but it was a very stupid move. Basically underage kid stole his brother's MILITARY ID and had altered it badly to make it close to his age. So not only was it obviously altered but now his brother has to answer to the military for losing that. Yeah...real smart.

              I live near the Canadian border so I had a few 19 year olds with IDs completely dumbfounded when I told them I couldn't sell them alcohol.

              I'm also gotten far too many I don't have my ID and then send up older person with ID that obviously came in to buy it for them, since they usually ask RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!

              I'm just glad I'm out of the IDing game. I'm a terrible judge of age so I often got freaked out on or else extremely shocked when a 30 something in my mind turns out to be 18 and 2 months!

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              • #8
                Quoth Shpepper View Post
                Yup, I carded someone who was in a Security officers (NOT police) Uniform. She claimed that she left her ID in the patrol car but that her badge was good enough for me to sell the wine to her. Um .. Yeah.. NO! .. She was not happy at all and threatened to go my manager. I called the SM over and all SM said was that since I said no, I could not sell to them without ID. That is the one time that I saw management at that store totally back the employee.
                This makes me wonder. Have there been any instances where management bowed to the customer over this in order to prevent "losing a customer?" I would think that fines and jailtime would deter even the most spineless of spineless managers.
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                • #9
                  I've had one person tell me his ID was in his shoe, but he couldn't retrieve, for fear of the ID now smelling bad. I asked for it anyway, and he walked off.

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                  • #10
                    My EDL was completely screwed up when they made it.

                    The number and DOB are in raised ink, which they were running low on at the time I guess, so they're lighter than the rest. On EDL's with G1 restrictions, they run out of space for the French translation, so it's cut off. The EDLs have a 2d barcode and Machine Readable Zone, not a mag stripe, another thing most people aren't used it, especially since the newly-redesigned DL's have mag stripe and 2D.

                    I've given up on using my EDL as ID. I don't drive, so I keep it at home and only take it with me if I expect to have an ID problem (if I'm going somewhere I haven't been before, then I have it as a "backup" ID). I now keep my health card on me and use it if asked for ID. The photo is from 3 years ago and looks nothing like me, the issue date is from 2009, ON health cards have an extra laminate over the photo only, so it looks fake, but no one's ever questioned it - bars, raves, convenience stores, LCBO, casinos, OLG Slots@Fort Erie, etc. Once I was asked if I had anything with a better photo and showed my student ID (full name including middle names, 2009 issue date and photo, signature printed on it).
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                    • #11
                      I asked some kid for ID once and the one he gave me was weird in some way - i can't remember why now - but there was something wrong with it and I asked if he had a second form of ID, which he did - with a completely different birthdate on it! Dumbass.

                      We used to have this group of people that decided to make their own ID's...fair enough, they're a governmentally recognized group and supposedly their ID was legit - except it wasn't. It was literally a piece of paper with info hand written on it, with a small wallet sized photo and then it was just laminated. It looked like a third-grader made it. I don't think we ever accepted those.

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                      • #12
                        I have never been in a job situation where I had to ID people.

                        However, I have had issues with getting IDed. Mostly notably the girl who pointed out the person in my DL didn't have blue hair. I fail to believe that woman thought aqua blue was my natural color.

                        The usual reason my ID is rejected is not my fault. Many of my of age friends follow me into the liquor store without their ID on them. They aren't buying anything so they don't think they need it. I usually end up getting carded, and then the salesperson calls my friend over and attempts to ID them as well, only to be told my pal doesn't have their ID. This has resulted in two bannings from liquor stores for "suspicion of intent to purchase alcohol for a minor."
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                        • #13
                          To be fair, liquor licenses are a very easy thing to lose, if someone from the liquor board (or whatever they call it in the locale du jour) sends someone in undercover and finds a violation. Given how there's always a call for booze, losing a liquor license means losing an almost guaranteed permit to print money, so they're pretty paranoid, in general, about potential violations of the law (or appearance of same).
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                          • #14
                            Quoth Nohbody View Post
                            To be fair, liquor licenses are a very easy thing to lose, if someone from the liquor board (or whatever they call it in the locale du jour) sends someone in undercover and finds a violation. Given how there's always a call for booze, losing a liquor license means losing an almost guaranteed permit to print money, so they're pretty paranoid, in general, about potential violations of the law (or appearance of same).
                            I fully understand that. It's just that every other time I go to a liquor store I don't get carded. They don't even look up to see if I look 19. It only ever happens if someone is with me without their ID. But then again, I assume that it looks suspicious as there are two of us and only one is going to the counter.
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                            • #15
                              Maybe that's the only thing the liquor board regularly tests them for, buying for minors? *shrug*

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                              (But they can take that whole "die" thing and blow it out their ass. )
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