From the Daily News: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.
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."
I just had a flashback from my youth consisting of two words: "Busy Bee"
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Its a felony to possess one....Criminal poss of a forged instrument..........Hey you rookies out there....easy overtime$$$$
Its a felony to possess one....Criminal poss of a forged instrument..........Hey you rookies out there....easy overtime$$$$
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What do you want, cops checking ID's in clubs? Rookies nonetheless? Unless you are suggesting that they stop these kids on the street. If so, then those rooks better have a damn good reason for the stop, and they better fill out that all-important 250. Otherwise, the usual gang of civil rights activists will pound the poor rookies into the ground and hang them out to dry.
"What do you want, cops checking ID's in clubs?"
Didn't Kelly's Kommando's run a sting operation in bars in Queens using underage looking cops just a year or so or so ago?
The authorities are concerned about a bunch of college aged kids using phony IDs to drink?
Yet they look the other way when our undocumented Democrats do the same thing?
What a country we live in!!!!
Underage drinking; most of us did it ourselves. Big deal. Does anyone actually know anyone who didnt drink until they were 21 because it was illegal? Daily news just doesnt have enough garbage to fill its pages so they try to make a story. You think they give two shits about underage drinkers? Only if they can sensationalize a story about it.
Busy Bee! That's where I got my first "Employee ID" from Flushing Hospital, getting me into every bar and club from NYC to Long Island in the mid to late eighties. Thanks for the memories.
Didn't Kelly's Kommando's run a sting operation in bars in Queens using underage looking cops just a year or so or so ago?
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Commandos is spelled with a C.
Just like everything else in this city.
Memo to the 'postal clerks' of city council:
you pass laws to actually have a benefit to society, not just give yourselves a photo op.
we live in a time when laws are no longer enforced.
That's the tip of the iceberg! While working in a NYC middle school for ten years, We have seen more fake I<D's from the adults. ie: parent requests statement from school for food stamp appt., their passport info is different from school info, No problem, mom has another passport with other information! This type of activity is happening daily. One student told the principal, you owe me ten dollars for taking my marijuana! Then tells police, don't ask for parents DOB, because it's all fake! How would respond?
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