[pharmamom]

This is news/activism? Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.

[cyborg]

Was the pizza good?

[WildTurkey]

Now, what in tar blazes is this about? Some shmo at the pizza joint can check my credit rating? Or whether I've bounced a check (which I haven't, mind you.)?

Actually, when they take your DL, they are verifying that you have encoded your preference for anchovies and will automatically delete them from the pizza if so encoded.

[Texas Eagle]

"Oh," he tells me, "it's to check whether we can accept your checks or not, if your credit is good."

At this point, the proper response is, "Kiss my ass.".

[bootless]

I think the DL # is what they use to check you out with Telecheck, which is the deadbeat-check-identifting database.

[Who dat?]

Were you paying by check?

Just wondering because around here they generally only take business/commercial checks (and then only if it's over $100.00 or something).

If you were intending to pay by cash I'd have looked into something else.

But if you were paying by check, they've probably been burned before and are subscribed to something that checks credit/bounced checks.

[cowtowney]

I don't believe anyone can check your personal credit without your written permission.

That is not to say that with your drivers license and name the pizza company can not make a good estimate as to whether you are a good risk to write a check. They can check your name against a database of bad check writers and then say Yes or Nyet (most of the pizza delivery people in my neighborhood are Russian, for some reason)

[NonValueAdded]

Actually, I believe it is a local check verification service like telecheck. In most cases, you are asked for your DL for identification when presenting a check at places like grocery stores, etc., and you might remember them writing your DL # on the check. Well, that becomes your local identifying number in lieu of their using your SSAN. They don't do a DMV lookup but do track you by that number.

That said, some states DO sell your DL information and have opt-out schemes, etc., that you must become aware of on your own. With the Driver Privacy Protection Act, Florida now has a opt-in (you must affirmatively allow disclosure) system. See http://www.hsmv.state.fl.us/ddl/DPPAInfo.html

[Theresawithanh]

Pay cash? Use your ATM card?

[Fresh Wind]

The use of the driver's license for ID is pretty much standard when registering to bid in auctions. It gives the auction company something to go on if you buy stuff and cart it off without paying, or if you hand them a bad check.

[John Jorsett]

The DMV hasn't done anything wrong here. The business wanted the DL number because whatever credit/check verifying service it uses indexes its info using that number. In this particular case, the DMV isn't involved, other than issuing you the license.

[truth_seeker]

Gee. I have only been showing my driver license to cash checks, for about 35 years.

So has anybody else. Did you just get a checking account, and you are trying it out at pizza joints?

[dljordan]

You have no privacy, you're part of the corporate state.

[Wasichu]

This something I read about a year ago, so I am sure many people have seen it also. Only now with the national id, it seems much more realistic!

Operator: "Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your national ID number?"
Customer: "Hi, I'd like to place an order."
Operator: "I must have your NIDN first, sir?"
Customer: "My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, it's 6102049998-45-54610."
Operator: "Thank you, Mr. Sheehan. I see you live at 1742 Meadowland Drive, and the phone number's 494-2366. Your office number over at Lincoln Insurance is 745-2302 and your cell number's 266-2566. Email address is sheehan@ home.net
Which number are you calling from, sir?"
Customer: "Huh? I'm at home. Where d'ya get all this information?"
Operator: "We're wired into the HSS, sir."
Customer: "The HSS, what is that?"
Operator: "We're wired into the Homeland Security System, sir. This will add only 15 seconds to your ordering time"
Customer: (Sighs) "Oh, well, I'd like to order a couple of your All-Meat Special pizzas."
Operator: "I don't think that's a good idea, sir."
Customer: "Whaddya mean?"
Operator: "Sir, your medical records and commode sensors indicate that you've got very high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care provider won't allow such an unhealthy choice."
Customer: "What?!?! What do you recommend, then?"
Operator: "You might try our low-fat Soybean Pizza. I'm sure you'll like it."
Customer: "What makes you think I'd like something like that?"
Operator: "Well, you checked out 'Gourmet Soybean Recipes' from your local library last week, sir. That's why I made the suggestion."
Customer: "All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then."
Operator: "That should be plenty for you, your wife and your four kids, and your 2 dogs can finish the crusts, sir. Your total is $49.99."
Customer: "Lemme give you my credit card number."
Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but I'm afraid you'll have to pay in cash. Your credit card balance is over its limit."
Customer: "I'll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your driver gets here."
Operator: "That won't work either, sir. Your checking account's overdrawn also."
Customer: "Never mind! Just send the pizzas. I'll have the cash ready. How long will it take?"
Operator: "We're running a little behind, sir. It'll be about 45 minutes, sir. If you're in a hurry you might want to pick 'em up while you're out
getting the cash, but then, carrying pizzas on a motorcycle can be a little awkward."
Customer: "Wait! How do you know I ride a scooter?"
Operator: "It says here you're in arrears on your car payments, so your car got repo'ed. But your Harley's paid for and you just filled the tank
yesterday"
Customer: Well I'll be a "@#%/$@&?#!&?#!"
Operator: "I'd advise watching your language, sir. You've already got a July 4, 2006 conviction for cussing out a cop and another one I see here on
September for contempt at your hearing for cursing at a judge." "Oh yes see here that you just got out from a 90 day stay in the State Correctional Facility. Is this your first pizza since your return to society?
Customer: (Speechless)
Operator: "Will there be anything else, sir?"
Customer: "Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke".
Operator: "I'm sorry sir, but our ad's exclusionary clause prevents us from offering free soda to diabetics. The New Constitution prohibits this.
Thank you for calling Pizza Hut!"

[LurkedLongEnough]

Maybe the cashier was a neighborhood eye.

[nkycincinnatikid]

You may still have some rights under the constitution . but you are a child of the state if you have a drivers linence. Once the linence is entered into yhe equation you have no constitutional protection/ Most freepers agreee holeheartedly with this. Just go Away.

[quietolong]

I thought it was going to be a rehash of this:

Ordering a Pizza from Big Brother
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1037035/posts

[Cold Heat]

It is because they have been advised not to use SS#s any more because of stolen IDs.

They now use drivers licence numbers and run them through "tele-check" and other types of data bases.

[DaoPian]

Who uses checks anymore?