Uh...that's nice, now can I see some ID?

[repsac]

I think I posted this else where, but it's always a good laugh and it made me think.

What's the STRANGEST form of ID you've ever been offered?

Here's mine:

I needed some christmas money one year, so I took a temp job at a gas station. Usually, I closed, so I tended to see some strange ones. However since my station was located out in the middle of no where, I was also allowed to bring a book to read and such. I'd average, one, maybe two customers in an 8 hour shift every night. That gives you an idea where I was.

Well, one night, right before I quit; I remember this gorgeous young lady comes in. She's really nice, talkative and all and I must admit I was thinking of date possiblity. Yes, I know. I'm a player or whatever you want. I was bored though. Could you blame me? (I hope not)

Well, the girl and I talk some and then she heads back to get some beer. Coming back she plunks it on the counter and I ring it up. "Can I see any ID?" I ask. She smiles nods and digs through her purse, only to come up empty. "Damn." the girl says. "I forgot it."

Uh...

"Got any military ID?" (yes, we could take that. Our store was located on a base so it's one of the few places that could ask that.)

She shakes her head and sighs before her eyes light up. "Oh wait, I've got my birthcertificate in the car. Let me go get that."

Yes, I can take that....strange as it sounds, I can. She heads out comes back in to show me that she's 23, even though she looks barely 18. Smiling I finish the sale but can't help but ask her.

"Just curious, why do you have your BC with you anyway?"

Beaming she responds. "I'm starting a job at State Line Caberet. I'm a stripper."

Yeah right. I don't know why I asked it, but I said to her quote "Prove it."


Trust me friends. She proved it.

[DarthRetard]

Working in south florida, I've gotten:

Several International ID cards, from:

Finland
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Ecuador
South Africa
Norway
England
Ireland

and my personal favorite:

The Sex offender id....

[Kogarashi]

Huh. Worst non-ID I've had was some guy trying to use his old high school ID to buy beer at the Supercenter. Didn't have a birthdate, and he didn't have any other form of ID, so I had to turn him down. I think he even tried arguing the point a bit before leaving.

[Spiffy McMoron]

One time before I lived in Edmonton, me and a bunch of buddies were going to a Headstones concert in Edmonton. It was at a large bar in West Edmonton Mall, so we decided to make a day of it. At suppertime, we were hungry, we wanted alcohol, and we wanted someplace we'd never been to before-so Hooter's it was!

We sit down and all order alcoholic beverages, including one friend who was an Englishman by birth-his family immigrated when he was younger. So the waitress asks all of us for ID, and 3 of us produce driver's lisence's. The fourth friend (the Englishman) never bothered to get a drivers lisence, so he whips out three peices of ID-his landed immigrant (or whatever it was-official government ID, at any rate) card, with a picture of him at age 8; his college ID, with a recent photograph of him; and his ID from work, which had his age and birthdate on it.

The waitress takes all three ID's, and said she would check with a manager. All of us at the table see her take the ID's to one of the cooks, and she points at our table. Cook gets a huge belly laugh out of the whole thing, calls over a few more cooks, and they get a laugh, too. Waitress comes back, hands him his ID's, and says that she can't take the ID's.

Oddly enough, we went to the concert in the bar, and they didn't even ask us for any ID at all-just our tickets.

[AFpheonix]

When I had to card for sudafed, I think my 3 most favorite ones that people handed me were:
Costco cards (Durrrr....it has my pikshure!)
A prison ID (and you're getting sudafed? You promise you're not gonna go cook it, right?)
a concealed weapons permit. (Here! Have some!)

[Barefootgirl]

Just out of interest, why do things like prisoner IDs and landed immigrant cards, that have a picture and a birthdate on them (OK, not the one with a picture of an 8 year old!) not count as "valid" IDs? Since the UK moved to photocard style driving licences, I carry that around with me when I am in the US, but prior to that, I was stuck lugging my passport around.

[NightAngel]

In either real or photocopy I have been offered:
military
prison
school
work
passport
concealed weapon
drivers licenses from all over the world
StarFleet Academy
tatoos
credit cards with or without picture
note from "Mom"
voter id
car registration
bills
official badges of varying types (police, fbi, park rangers, etc.)

[digilight]

Just out of interest, why do things like prisoner IDs and landed immigrant cards, that have a picture and a birthdate on them (OK, not the one with a picture of an 8 year old!) not count as "valid" IDs? Since the UK moved to photocard style driving licences, I carry that around with me when I am in the US, but prior to that, I was stuck lugging my passport around.

Probably due to the ability to forge and counterfit them. At least this would be the reason in the states. Here in california our Drivers license is a very dificult one to fake (not impossible just difficult). Also by limiting the number of acceptible ID's you are limiting the number of documents that clerks and bartenders need to be familiar with and able to tell if its real or not.

[Plaidman]

official badges of varying types (police, fbi, park rangers, etc.)

You'd think those of all people would have real ID.

[Necromancer]

I've gotten credit cards that have the person's picture on the as I.D.

[NightAngel]

You'd think those of all people would have real ID.

You'd be surprised how often I ask off duty police officers for picture ID and they can't produce it. Out of all those times only one was ever a jerk about it- most just seem embarassed.

[ArenaBoy]

I posted about the guy who wanted to use his city society card, I actually went through the trouble and looked them up. Apparently, the city society is in my mom's words, a VIP coupoun club. Then there was the time I had the county sheriff flash his badge at me. He raised one hell of a fuss when I refused to let him in.

[XCashier]

Huh. Worst non-ID I've had was some guy trying to use his old high school ID to buy beer at the Supercenter.

I had one of those, too, only it was a current HS ID. Dumbass, if you're in high school, you're too young to buy beer. If you're in HS and you're old enough to buy beer, you'd better start hitting the books and stop hitting the bottle!

[SuperDan]

While I haven't had any creativity in people I've carded, I once had a friend manage to get served in a bar by showing his school ID to prove his identity along with a random government document (I think it was his FAFSA SAR) to show his date of birth. While my friend is of legal age, something tells me that bartender is lucky Excise didn't decide to visit that day.

Most states passed Voter ID laws just before this last general election, and Indiana was no exception. A member of the state legislature (house of representatives, we name our two houses the same as the federal ones) decided he would test out the law by voting in his home precinct using his state house of representatives ID. They gave him quite a bit of trouble over it, but after a long wait and much arguement he was allowed to vote. The ID, by the way, did meet the requirements of the law (specifically that it have the person's photo and full name, that it be issued by a state or federal government agency, and that it have an expiration date, preferably one that hasn't passed).

My sister is a teller for a large multi-national banking institution and she has a whole list of forms of identification that she needs to be familiar with--several from each state, district, and territory from the US, as well as many international forms of ID. That information is available to her for review in the branch though, so if she gets a particularly unusual one she doesn't have to rely entirely on memory to make sure it is valid or to know what to spot for fraudulent IDs.

[repsac]

One I have done, was the badge and permit thing. At the time though I was in corrections, and in our state depending on what you do, you have to be 21 or older.

Having said that, my personal favorite didn't happen to me. Rather it occured to a manager I knew.

M claimed that once, when asking a guy for a photo ID on a check the guy was writing, M had the rather amusing occasion to be handed his OWN driver's liscense with some idiot's picture taped over the front. Now it wasn't a good tape job either, the guy had used duct tape or something similar. He claimed quote "The DOT put the wrong picture on, so I corrected it."