Yet another ID incident

[underemployeed]

I had a very annoyed customer last night from out of state. A particular state, with a big state between us, and I never see people of that middle state because well, we are very northwest in the state. Needless to say, I only see his crappy state once everyone oh, few months.

SC's state has IDs that look like fakes right out of the box as my state and most states around us, have glossy IDs with shiny holograms. His wonderful state is MATTE, no shiny hologram.

He told me to "Just fucking scan it already"
at that point I responded with, "I would fucking love to! but we don't have the equipment to read this fucking bardcode your fucking state uses"

I go back to scrutinizing the ID, so he grabs it to show it is real by bending it in half and all sorts of directions pointing out a fake would be easily destroyed.... (at least he was onto something)

But I am so sorry, my state has complete different technology that our registers are setup to deal with, and unless he could pull a UV light out of his ass so I could see the fancy UV hologram, ain't shit I was going to be able to do to locate the two main features that would be easily to validate with proper technology.

Why is it so hard for people to understand, when your traveling out of your state, your ID might extremely questioned, especially with a big party school up the road where the smart people know to get an out of state fake ID, as they less likely to be caught than one the bouncer or clerk sees hundreds of times a day. And well, its not like we are in the middle of his state where in all honestly would be the place I expect to have proper equipment to read and validate an ID compared to several hundred miles away.

[Jester]

Yay! An ID story that doesn't result in me breaking out in song! Woo hoo!

...he grabs it to show it is real by bending it in half and all sorts of directions pointing out a fake would be easily destroyed.... (at least he was onto something)

No. No he wasn't. I have seen tons of fake IDs that are on the same damn stock that the real IDs from that state are on, including, if appropriate, lamination. A fake is not automatically something that's easily destroyed, especially since fake IDs can be priced high if they're really good. Good money to be had means that there are people out there producing good product. Supply and demand, the cornerstones of capitalism.

[alogram]

I would have fucking refused to fucking serve him! Assclown.

I carded someone one time YEARS ago. He didn't have any ID, I refused the sale. He came back and threw his passport at me and made some smart assed comment to me. I stopped what I was doing and stood and glared at him, and then told him that I didn't have to sell to him at all. He immediately started back pedaling and being all nice. Jerk.

The thing is, I carded damn near everyone at that point, because I had previously been fired from a job I had held for 4 years for selling to a minor. I had always been pretty careful about it, but that one day I let one slide and learned my lesson. (I honestly thought he was old enough, plus I was pretty young myself.) Just don't want anyone yelling at me for a mistake I made!

[underemployeed]

Lol, I ruined yet another princesses day last night. Long before I ever looked at her face when she walked up, I realized I needed to institute my "she has a face?" ID policy because I swear she was about 1/4in away from nipples being exposed, and I was considering if her chest had her own gravitation field. Look up see baby face and go begin thinking OH shit this is a setup. I ID her, and then her friend who was discussing the cigarette purchase with her, who SLIGHTLY more conservatively dressed than her counterpart. However, I was still about to get a wad of ones at the ready. After ID was produced, I learn she has not even been 18 for a month....

Her response you ask?
"This is ridiculous!!!! I have never been IDed for cigarettes!!!!!!!!"
I was actually stunned at this comment.

Things I should have said:
"Well when your attire makes me feel like I saved a trip to the strip club, I'm covering my own ass"
"You just turned 18, your in for a long road of producing ID until in 10 years your face looks like your 50"
"Right because I'm a physic and know everyone's birthday, I apologize I mixed you up with a 17 year old from Albania"

[chainedbarista]

*agrees with jester* i wasn't exposed to ids for alcohol as much as the allmighty jester, but as with fake bills, the ability to make fakes isn't some low brow operation with a copymachine and a laminator, sadly.

[MoonCat]

I live close to Canada, and right over the border, so I'm told, used to be places that you could buy a fake ID. According to a story in the paper, they actually had signs in the window reading "Fake ID's". Yeah. That blatant. And apparently they were pretty good. I don't know if those places are still in operation. I do know the cops often do checks at the stores here, you know the ones where they send in someone who's underage to see if the clerks will sell them booze or cigs.

[Nyoibo]

I remember using my drivers licence in the US, got some funny looks but it was accepted, it's got lots of little holograms all over it.

[Mr Hero]

Her response you ask?
"This is ridiculous!!!! I have never been IDed for cigarettes!!!!!!!!"
I was actually stunned at this comment.

This could technically be true if this is her first time ever buying cigarettes.

[taxguykarl]

This could technically be true if this is her first time ever buying cigarettes.

More likely she was just an SC trying some ploy.

[thansal]

I'm gonna guess that it was a NY ID, as ours are fairly odd.

The indestructible thing is actually a fairly good indicator of it being real, or at least it was when they were first introduced (about 10ish years ago now). They were interesting that they really were just about impossible to break by bending them (You can fold them into quarters). That said, I don't even have a NY ID any more, I still carry the license I got when I was living in OH (expired and all, gods I have to fix that). They look fairly nice, rigid plastic stock, everything printed right on it, and some good holograms.

One of my friends in college showed us his (I can't remember where from). It was the cheapest thing ever. Cardboard laminated in a standard card machine, easiest thing to fake ever (my HS ID looked better than it).