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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+77Come on, it was probably deliberate to flatter him or a scheme to improve the company's reputation with pensioners.
- Spikito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+54i work at olive garden, were required to card everyone, its a tax thing, i have to punch their DL# into a machine, it sucks, but anyway, i got bitched at by an 85 year old woman for carding her the other day.
- diggfinity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45When i was under 21, I went to a supermarket on New Year's Eve to buy some sparkling apple cider to celebrate with my girlfriend. The lady at the register asked for my ID. I said "....it's apple juice." and her response was "I'm sorry, if you're under 21 I can't let you purchase it because the bottle it's in *resembles* a wine bottle."
Discuss. - daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35At the place I buy my beer the register won't let an alcohol sale go through until a valid ID is scanned through. Along with the robotic vocal: "ID REQUIRED"
- dgaspard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35I was carded for duct tape. Apparently kids were using it to get high? What ever happened to pot?
- cptn_cardboard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33yeah, this is a retarded story.
when I worked at target, if alcohol was purchased (or cough syrup) the terminal would not let the sale go through until I scanned the barcode on the back of the drivers license. I didnt have a choice. - fadingeuphoria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31I still get carded for buying certain video games at 25, but not when I buy beer.
- Akaji, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26A friend of mine got pulled over for drinking an IBC root beer in his car. Cop let him go, obviously, but let him know that drinking IBC in a car is probably not the best idea in the world :)
- slapshot24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23What's dumb is that about half the comments above don't realize that York is in ENGLAND. Jolly old England. The UK. Not the US. So there's no SSN in England. There's no Olive Garden in England. And all of the drinking laws are different in England.
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -1/+20"Aback" ?
Aback is correct..
Definitions of aback on the Web:
* by surprise; "taken aback by the caustic remarks" - diggfinity, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Don't know why they asked for an ID. He's obviously very old and wrinkly judging from the above pic.
- SirNuke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I worked at a hardware store this summer, and we were required to card for spray paint and items with propellant. However, the requirement was not consistent between brands or sizes, you could get situations were a smaller size was carded and the larger was not, or requiring to card brand X but not nearly identical brand Y. Very strange.
I recall thinking "God help us all if some kid figures out how to get high by snorting plastic shopping bags". "Would you like a bag sir? Yes, please. I need to see your ID. For what? The plastic bag. *awkward pause*." - davidsmero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15This guy looks 19, I could see why she asked.
- fadingeuphoria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I was carded buying a non alcoholic mixer for a drink.
- Zreitan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17carding is all fine and good..but carding an 87 year old man is stupid in any country..
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14fail....
Now i'll need a fake ID to rent ultra porn - diggfinity, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17I get paranoid when drinking *anything* in a car. Even if it's a water bottle I feel like some cop is going to see me and "think" he saw something else.
- super_spyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13some stores just make it their policy, and they send "secret" shoppers through to test their employees and if the employees fail they get fired or reprimanded
- Siroro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Beats the other story about this old guy: later on he went to the park and fed some ducks. That only reached page 5 in the national newspaper.
- jamsea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Must have been a realllllllly slow news day in Britain...
- sirloin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10check out kid had dyslexia, he thought the drinking age was 81
- starfisch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12aback is a word.
you's dumb. - AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -1/+9Well, I'd rather know that an 87 year old man was asked for ID rather than caring to know that Camron Diaz is begging Justin Timberlake to come back..
Then again, that could just be my utter hatred for all things Hollywood news related..
Couple Gets Married, other couple breaks up, couple finds out part of couple is cheating on them with other celebrity type, so and so is pregnant again, another Xenu worshiper is born/brainwashed into the loving arms of Xenu.. Person is kidnapped, so and so has plastic surgery, so and so has wild sex spree that ends in Fox TV show..
Am I missing anything.. or is that Hollywood news in a nut shell.. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12I like to drink IBC root beer. Its good stuff and it comes in a bottle that looks like a beer bottle.
After being pulled over for drinking root beer about 20 times, cops ignore me now while I'm driving drunk. - daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@Chompy
This doesn't just happen in Utah, it's The United States: Land of Lawsuits. Also take into account that once a local TV news crew runs a story that a business isn't keeping EVERYONE safe from the dangers of underage drinking, it's all over. - kuzotz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5In the US to rpove I was 18 once, and I could see a Rrated movie. I had to use my passport because i had jsut gotten back form europe that same day I was in Dallas.
So I used my passport. I got into an argument with the jerkoff clerk that said my passport isn't a credible source of identification..
We were about to leave, but i said no I want to see the manager, and so I saw the manager, and they told the manager that I had a fake ID.
I showed him my "fake ID" which apprently a passport given to you by the United State's State Department. Is fake..... Yeah the manager yelled at that clerk, and I got to see my movie :) - kcpwnsgman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5at the theater I used to work at, we were told to ID anyone that looked younger than 39 for R rated movies, and when we had NC17 and NR movies, we were required to ID EVERYONE even if they looked like they were 87
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The penelties for selling tobacco and alcohol to minors have gotten so severe in some jurisdictions, many companies have a "card everybody" policy.
Sellers of E and pot don't card but are happy to pick up the business. - FiveIron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Stop the presses
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6its state law and they need to put the ID number into the computer. If they don't they could loose their job.
- naiku, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4well the day after Black Friday I went out with my mom to pick up a few things at best buy. I saw Ninja Gaiden Black cheap so i asked her to pick it up for me. I currently didn't have any money on me. Since the game is rated M "18 or older" they carded my 51 year old mom, my mom replied w/ "Are you kidden me?" The 18-19 year old girl made her get her driving license out and show her. About them scanning an ID? They just clicked the "yes he/she is 18 or older" on the computer.
Seeing that my mom doesn't read dig....she doesn't look young. She looks her age. I wont ever tell her that to her face though =) - PaGaNism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4So your statement that that Brits are the dumbest people is based on a story of an old man being asked for ID before buying Whiskey that was reported on the BBC website because the event is so rare. The story than gets dugg and tens of Americans explain in their comments that they have to check the ID of every customer irrespective of weather they look their age.... think about it.
Anyway, All that probably happened is that a cashier at the store recognized the ex-mayor and got a bit jokey and flirty with him. A local hack who happened to be next in the queue overheard the banter and thought it would fill a column of two in the local crappy paper "'cos there's bugger all else going on". The next day a researcher from the BBC spots the article in "The York Daily *****" and thinks "Well, Bush and His Tonyness have done nothing to get excited about today and if they did I probably can't link it to North Yorkshire anyway so we'll run the old ex-mayor gets asked for ID thing" .... And amazingly it gets to the front page on Digg. - celotil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4What I'm curious about, and haven't run into yet, is what happens when I have to present ID? As some of you may know from my previous posts, I live in Ipswich, AU, and I don't drive or have a valid licence - just a learner permit that expired yonks ago.
I don't get asked for ID in pubs or at bottle shops here, but let's say I was born in the US or UK, also did not have a licence, and was asked for ID.
What then? Do I simply not get served?
What about if I'm at the pub and a policeman walks in and decides to card everyone there - in AU, US, or UK. Am I automatically presumed to be underage, even though I am not, until I can provide my Extract of Birth Certificate showing my age? Would the nice policeman bring me home so I could get it out and show it to him, or am I just screwed?
I really think this "ID for everything" mentality is getting a bit much, and a bit too particular. When I was seventeen I could use my SCUBA licence to show proof of age, but then they changed it later that year to only 18+ cards and driver's licences. - DeckardRep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4diggfinity, I get paranoid about drinking in the car too. In the summer I drink those large cans of Arizona Iced Tea, and I'm always expecting a cop to pull me over thinking it's one of those huge beer cans.
- spartan777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3this isn't anything different, in the US, at the supermarket I worked at, we carded EVERYONE. It is pretty ridiculous to card 50 and 60 year olds.
- Amandaaa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3how about getting carded for eggs on halloween? gotta be 18+ where I grew up.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3England had prohibition? Or did you just comment on an article that you didn't read?
- mrynit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4where i live you get carded no mater what your age is. its the law.
- purple, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%27s_syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progeria
It could happen. - pritch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As numerous people have already pointed out, the legal age for drinking in the UK is 18. However, a lot of shops operate a policy where they'll ask for ID from anyone who looks like they might be under 21.
I regularly buy alcohol from the same supermarket chain, and have never been asked for ID (and I'm a good deal younger than the gent in the article!). To quote the article "staff at the Acomb store are required to ask anyone buying alcohol to confirm that they are over 21", so I'd guess that they've had problems with under-age drinkers slipping through the net before and have introduced a blanket policy for all sales. The problem with blanket policies like this comes when you leave your staff with absolutely no choice to deviate from it. Somewhat problematic for some people, I'd guess. My mother doesn't have a driving license any longer, and I very much doubt she's got any other way of proving her age that she regularly carries with her. - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, I reuse the IBC bottles for homebrewing. The 1 liter sizes are great for small batches.
- KenOh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I worked at a liquor store in Maryland and my boss, who owned the store, freaked out at how close they came to getting busted once and then required ID from everyone who wanted alcohol. Old people got pissed and, long story short, it snowballed into me walking out one day, never to return.
- JesusIsSatan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If you don't ask, it'll be called discriminatory age profiling. The nun wearing the habit has to undergo the cavity search at the airport for suspicion of terrorism just like evryone else.
Besides, yesterday's 20 is today's 80. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5At first I was like, wow a supermarket doing their job, maybe this country doesn't always blow. And then I realized he's not in the US.
- orangemarmalade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this made the front page, that one didn't. get over it
- njcannington, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i might be dumb... but isn't this is England where the drinking age is 18?
- digg-dugg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3In Canada you cant even buy weed without a valid provincal drivers liscence. Times have changed...
- Br0wn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you forgot all the adoptions too. god I hate celebrity news.
- Araxen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Common Sense is a Super Hero power now. Only 1 in 100,000,000,000 people have it.
- volcompimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Being an ***** and taking your job that seriously gets you on Digg? Wow...
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