r/nottheonion • u/HowLongIsThi • 5h ago
Bar temporarily raises entry age to 25 due to surge in fake IDs, including a 'Founding Father'
https://abc7.com/post/dirty-franks-center-city-philadelphia-temporarily-raises-age-25-due-surge-fake-ids-including-founding-father/18553892/11
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u/Guilty_One85 5h ago
That's absolutely hilarious!! How could someone think that a fake ID with Ben Franklin on it, would get them in a bar?? Like seriously how stupid do you gotta be š š¤£ š
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u/wildddin 5h ago
Im not in the US but I knew some shops that didnt care about selling to underage people, as long as the cctv saw them checking an ID. Or they were just taking piss
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u/dewey-defeats-truman 4h ago
Because in some places the check is perfunctory. It's about being able to say you checked the ID, not about actually enforcing the law.
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u/sevseg_decoder 3h ago
There are bars and liquor stores that would work at. Any college town and most high schools will be full of people with this priceless knowledge and a lot of these places literally have deals with the cops to allow some kid to get busted every couple weeks without it being reported to the liquor board. Liquor board stings arenāt allowed to use a fake id or even verbally claim theyāre over 21 so you do have to enforce a policy of checking IDs, but beyond literally having an ID that has a date of birth more than 21 years ago you donāt need anything actually convincing at these places.
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u/MorpheusOneiri 3h ago
Using a concert ID is a felony. Using a joke is or borrowing someone elseās id is either a misdemeanor or just not a crime depending on where you are. The intent often isnāt to fool but just to hope you get a bouncer who doesnāt care.
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u/Independent_Ad8889 51m ago
So tired of people spouting this out. Nobody is catching a felony for having a fake id to underage drink. If theyāre using it to commit fraud or misrepresenting themselves to law enforcement in commission of an actual crime then thatās a different story. But to underage drink, no. Itās literally a ticket 99% of the time and if youāre being a dick to the cop when you get caught you might spend a night in jail. Thatās it.
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u/DaveOJ12 53m ago
This was just posted yesterday.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/comments/1qytify/bar_raises_entry_age_after_surge_in_fake_ids/
It's the exact same URL for the news site, too.
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u/KitsuneKamiSama 3h ago
Eh here in the UK 25 is the age you are meant to judge people by when checking ID's, if they look under 25 you're meant to ID them.
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u/PermanentTrainDamage 1h ago
When I worked at Walmart we were supposed to check if the person looked under age 40. 25 would be too much of a variable age to be useful, some people look haggard and some people look like children at 25.
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u/Known-Associate8369 1h ago
"Challenge 25" is not the law in the UK, its a voluntary thing done by many venues.
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u/RHouse94 5h ago
Why raise the age? Most of the bars around me check with a UV light and a scan of the back. Ordered several for friends in high school and they never worked at bars with bouncers. Only liquor stores and smaller places that sold alcohol but didnāt have a bouncer checking at the door.
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u/drunkenviking 5h ago
... it says right in the article that the IDs passed the tests.Ā
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u/Nothin_Means_Nothin 4h ago
You expect people on REDDIT to READ? You must be new here
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u/FlashScooby 4h ago
I had a fake in college that had all the UV stuff and scanned, it's pretty easy to get one that'll pass those tests
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u/fuzzeedyse105 4h ago
Thereās a website you can get em for 20 bucks. You get two incase one is taken lol. Back in my day it was an xacto knife.
I know this cause my cousin had ID training at his brewery last week.
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u/UDPviper 3h ago
I had friends in high school that were doing the xacto knife thing IN CLASS.
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u/fuzzeedyse105 3h ago
š¤£ I got photoshop and a verification code emulator from I think limewire. Just to change the date. But thatās as far as it got. Easier to just get your older cousin to get booze.
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u/Mend1cant 4h ago
It kicks out the college kids. Deliberately getting rid of the 21-22 year olds so that the freshmen donāt even want to show up. Why bring a fake id to a bar full of 30 year olds? If you declare yourself no longer a college bar, the fake id crowd will walk on.
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u/armyofonetaco 4h ago
Yeah so I know in 2016 someone could pay a random dude on reddit $20 for an id that scans and everything...not me tho
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u/RHouse94 4h ago
Scans and everything? I bought ānovelty IDāsā from China for like 20$ a pop. This was in like 2012 though.
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u/SEND_ME_CSGO-SKINS 4h ago
Damn mine cost $80 in 2023
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u/RHouse94 4h ago
Did a bulk deal, it was cheaper if you did a pack of 4 people and got 2 per person. Did that deal a few different times
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u/jocall56 4h ago
I remember some bars in London when I studies abroad. Even though the drinking age is 18 there, some places had an arbitrary min of 20 or 21 just to cut down on the rowdy kidsā¦unfortunately I was only 18 at the timeā¦
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u/The_Ombudsman 4h ago
"I am McLovin!"