Posted on 05/09/2022 8:55:26 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Gaytors being gaytors...
Hey now!
“In the 70’s I got into a disco with a friends parking ticket as ID...things were a little different back then”
When I got my (hand written) hunting license when I was 17 they screwed up my birthday and made me 3 years older. I thought, “man, I’m in like Flynn”. Turned out even the bouncers were smarter than that and it got me nowhere. Of course looking as guilty as a serial killer while trying to use it might have had something to do with it.
We’d take a piece of Scotch tape and pull the ink off the desired numbers from a phone book, cut it to size using a razor and paste over the driver’s license date. Worked 90% of the time.
Poor Fogell, he’s down to one movie job a year.
Totally agree.
Unfortunately the lawsuit happy system that is us jurisprudence has imprisoned the country.
Necessity, the mother of invention. That’s great thinking.
Sorry...I was overwhelmed by my inner Seminole.
I had a fake ID in the 1970's. My dad taught at one of local high schools and one of his students took a shine to me. She asked him if she could take me to Grad Nite and prom.
I had attended some events at my dad's school (I attended a different high school) and because my dad wanted me to get along with his students (they were Seniors) he told them I was a Junior. I was a Freshman at the time.
All this to say that they intended to go out after the prom, and while most of them were 18, as a "Junior" I was only 17 - actually 14 at the time - and needed a fake ID.
My parents took me to an indoor flea market where they had an "ID Booth". Florida had an official ID card in addition to a drivers license and...ah hem...entrepreneurs who held a notary license could issue these ID cards. You signed a form saying the information was true and, voila, an official Florida ID card!
Yes, my parents, who were teachers, took me to get my fake ID.
The days of fake ID are long gone. We want criminal illegal aliens to be caught and expelled from the country. We want people who have committed felonies to be caught and prosecuted. If you are going out and using a fake ID, you are going to get caught up in the red states attempt to clean up their cities and states.
It's not about punishing the "crime", it's all about collecting revenue.
There shouldn't even be a drinking age.
But he will NEVER need ANY ID to vote in any libdem haven
But fake ID’s are just fine for students who are illegal aliens.
This is utterly stupid. Illegals are punished at all and we are crucifying students.
Driving, drinking, smoking should be learned concurrently.
No wonder youngsters today are mixed up with driving at 16, legal drinking at 21, and smoking prohibited at bars.
Calling an underage moron who drinks in a public place until he/she is incapacitated... a student may be a stretch. But I agree that there is no sense of proportion in our legal system.
I was a nurse maid to teens in this type of situation many times... and where we live none of them even got a slap on the wrist. Although some of them did inadvertently kill themselves their friends and innocent people by driving, playing with firearms and taking drugs with the alcohol. Maybe that will ease your concern a little.
Young people do stupid things. I am not saying to let them off completely, but felony charges and tens of thousands for a fake ID is simple bullshit, when every illegal in the USA is doing the same thing and causing far more damage and NOT being punished for it.
Put it on the student loans. Biden will forgive it all.
I guess I should have just said that I agree; and not adding “that there is no sense of proportion in our legal system”. One of the biggest problems in our society however is that everyone believes that they are above the law. Obviously “illegal immigrants” and other protected classes are above the law. The rest of us not so much.
Of course, you read in the article that none of the students who were charged with felonies actually were convicted of felonies. “Outcomes varied, but out of 45 cases all charges were either dropped or reduced to misdemeanors.” The kid the article was about “had to pay $270 in legal fees as well as make a $100 donation to a local charity”. Somehow this seems more like a slap on the wrist these days.
Around here if you get caught driving in the carpool lane without someone else in your car... that rings up to $550. To me it seems like correcting the course of an underage drinker boozing it up until he passes out on a college campus is just as serious of an offense.
“It’s meant to be a slap on the wrist,” Lloyd said. “They did the crime and that’s our way of telling them not to do it again without convicting them of a felony.”
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