Do you or did you ever have a fake ID to use for getting served alcohol?

moshquerade

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Fake IDs get reporters into or served at 13 out of 18 bars

Sunday, September 5th 2010, 4:00 AM


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Daily News reporters Matt Bultman and Joyce Chen
show off their freshly acquired fake IDs before hitting
Manhattan nightspots Friday night.


The bartender studied the phony Pennsylvania ID card for about 10 seconds before bursting into laughter.

"This is the worst fake I've ever seen," he said - and then served the bogus card's owner a cold beer.

The shady transaction was no one-shot deal. A Daily News spot check of Manhattan nightspots showed the only thing easier than buying a fake ID is using it to buy a drink.

A pair of News reporters - legally old enough to drink - hit 18 bars this weekend and were admitted or served in 13. Both were able to score sham "emergency IDs" at a Chinatown shop for $108 - with barely a 10-minute wait.

The intensity of the ID checks varied wildly from bar to bar.
Some places had bouncers working the doors, others none. Some inspected the cards intensely, others with a quick glance. Some went high-tech, others decidedly low-rent.

At Tenjune and Cielo, a pair of Meatpacking District hot spots, bouncers used scanners and flashlights to examine the IDs before barring the card-carrying reporters from entering.

"I can't do this," said the bouncer at Tenjune, where 17-year-old Nicole John was drinking before her fatal fall from a midtown high-rise last month. "It's a fake."

The same was true at Pacha on W. 46th St., where the Pennsylvania ID was instantly rejected.

"We don't take that here," the bouncer said dismissively.

There was better luck at bars in Hells Kitchen and in the neighborhood around W. 14th St. The chuckling bartender at Bill's Bar and Burger on Ninth Ave. had no problem serving one reporter after mocking his fake ID. Fake ID at the Mercury Bar at 46th St. and Ninth Ave.? No problem.

At the Tanuki Tavern on W. 13th St., the bartender was initially suspicious of the bogus ID - but wound up offering the reporter a shot on the house.
Getting the laminated cards was relatively easy at the Chinatown operation, where the shop workers were eager to help.

When one reporter provided her birth date as 1990, a sharp-eyed employee quickly changed it to 1989 - making her "legal."

Robert Bookman, counsel to the New York Nightlife Association, said keeping underage drinkers out of bars is a constant battle against determined teens and evolving technology.

"We're trying to put as many fingers in the dike as possible," Bookman said. "But kids come up with better ways to beat us. And the fake ID makers are coming up with more and better fake IDs."

Perhaps the biggest problem: Possession of a fake ID comes with no penalties in New York. The IDs are confiscated by the hundreds, but there's no fine or criminal charges, he said.

"We're always just one headline away from a nightmare," Bookman said, without mentioning John's death.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local..._bars_say_yes_to_phony_ids.html#ixzz0ynAlldef
 

IronWing

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Jul 20, 2001
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Yes. Back when the drinking age was 18 my HS ID didn't have a birth date so I typed one on.
 

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
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how come possession of fake id is not a criminal offence? Especially in this day and age.
 

ahenkel

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Jan 11, 2009
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Nope I never really drank until I was 21. Pot was much easier to get.
 

moshquerade

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Nov 1, 2001
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I actually used a friends older sister's ID that she let me borrow because we looked similar. It worked.
 

zerocool84

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Nov 11, 2004
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I never needed a fake ID when I was younger. Always had someone to buy beers for me.
 

Zebo

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Jul 29, 2001
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No I was too cheap for bars in HS but had my brothers buy us hard alcohol for parties. When hard up there was this Vietnamese liqueur store in Anaheim who would hook me up no ID needed.
 

OCGuy

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Jul 12, 2000
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My brother gave me his driver's license for my 16th birthday so I could buy cigarettes. When I was 18-20 I was the only one in the group who could buy booze...so I drank for free every weekend.
 

imported_Champ

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I made my own at 17, it was probably as crappy as the ones they were using...my name was reece lol

I had some problems, got kicked out of a lot of places but found pubs were usually a guarantee and the campus bar was no problem until I pulled it out with my real id by accident
 

AznAnarchy99

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Dec 6, 2004
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Anyone read the Nicole John article referenced in that one? Are they really blaming the guy for her being a rich drug addict brat?
 

mk

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Apr 26, 2000
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No. Didn't really drink before turning 18. Come to think of it I didn't drink that much after either.
 

TheVrolok

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Dec 11, 2000
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Nope, never really needed one. There were/are always places around where you don't need ID.
 

Squisher

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Didn't have to. Legal age was 18 and there were two bars we went to that never checked. It was kinda funny because we always had a big birthday party when one of us turned 18 and we'd been coming to the bar for a year or two.
 

alevasseur14

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Feb 12, 2005
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My brother and law gave me his because they misspelled his middle name and issued him a new one. I wasn't carded too often but when I was, it worked.
 

Spacehead

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Jun 2, 2002
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No.
I had a hard time getting into bars till i was about 25-26. I always got carded & alot of places wouldn't accept mine, especially when i traveled out of state.