Who remembers having fake ID?

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When I was a teen it was a big deal. You had to know the right kid in the playground, give them a passport photo and a tenner and they would get you a fake driver's licence mocked up. It looked dodgy as hell but meant that we could get into the pub and drink WKD to our heart's content.

What fake ID did you have? Is it even still a thing??

This thread is batshit.

I have never had a fake ID, and neither have my (now adult) children, and I don't know anyone who has ever had one. It certainly wasn't a 'big deal' in my school, and no-one I knew had the ability to get a fake driving licence for anyone.

What's the point? So you can buy a bottle of vodka when you're 16? Or get into an over 18s club or pub when you're 15/16? Risking getting yourself, your parents, and the off licence into a lot of trouble, so you can buy yourself a bottle of alcohol or some cigarettes?!

Or if you get into a club, the club owners will very likely get fined hugely - and maybe even shut down. Seems pointless and ludicrous to have a fake ID. You're a short time a child and a long time an adult, why do children in their mid teens want or need to get pissed and go clubbing at 15/16?

@Littlefish

Fake ID is absolutely still a thing. My dd is in year 13, so her friends are a mix of 17 and 18 year olds. They all have fake ID.

Why?

@ScreamALullabye

Yeah it's still a thing, my 17 year old has one.

Again, WHY?

Everyone back in my day as photo ID was not yet a thing, just badly crumpled paper driving licenses. People of age would just go in periodically and say they lost it or it went through the wash and they gave you another. So older siblings were very popular! You just had to have enough variety to make sure there was not multiple copies of the same name in the same group. Only ever had to confirm dob if they questioned it, and the star sign corresponding to the birthday if they really doubted it.

Check out all you fraudsters 🤣
I had one too haha.
I can't even remember how I got it but it was my ticket to the lifestyle.
We were going out all the way through the ages of 16+17. We practised confident struts in past the bouncers like it was some sort of strategic operation.
Flash them a smile. I feel sick thinking about it. 90s, the era of fake IDs.

The 17 year olds want to do what the 18 year olds are doing. Isn't it obvious?

In years gone by, I was in the pub at 15, drinking. There were no checks.

Now there are. Teens are always going to look for ways to beat the system. They're teenagers.

@Littlefish

The 17 year olds want to do what the 18 year olds are doing. Isn't it obvious?

They have to wait, literally just a few months til they are 18!!!

As I said, batshit. 😜

I was talking about id yesterday. I was never once asked for ID. I had never realised I wasn't allowed to buy alcohol until I was 18.i used to buy a few bits of shopping for dinner and a bottle of wine or two when I was 15 maybe and no one ever Batted an eyelid (I live in London so not a small village where someone knew I was getting it for my mum).I used to buy drinks in the pub with a friend or my sister no question ever. I clearly must have liked disappointingly old(which I didn't really) but I seemed older which is often the impression people first subconsciously get. Fast forward another 30 years. I go to a club with my friend(who is 55) and we are unaware of the new ID rules. My friend was apoplectic having been asked for her ID.it was quite funny. They didn't bother asking me. Strangely, every nightclub I've been to haven't asked me either, apparently they are asking others. It's strange, but extremely convenient. I must look very old and very angry I conclude!

John Menzies?

Its funny how things swing to extremes. My husband used to go to the of licence as a fuve and six year old and but a bottle of whiskey (alcoholic Mother), frequently, no problem. My 21 year old son, wearing his university I'd ( therfore clearly over 18 anyway), goes to the supermarket nectar to uni to but an weren't drink. He had no passport or driving licence ( I think you need to be 16 ) they refused to serve him and told him to leave. Ironically I've not met anyone who thinks he's under 24. There are some strange things going on. You just can't quite predict what is going to be! It did make us laugh. He'd been up for 2 days and 2 nights so wanted his red bull. Someone else got it for him luckily!

Ah those were the days... I remember aged 16 we used to go to a towncentre pub at lunchtime after our GCSE exams... it made the afternoon revision for our next exam go with a glow.

Got asked for ID once and gave false (I think) NUS/ ISIC card but then after went to the same pub where the barman remembered us. We even came up with a story about being students on a placement at a local company in case we were asked. Nowadays people dont seem to go to the pub at lunctime so much...

We were given ISIC cards in Sixth Form, handwritten with a photo and then laminated. The school then wanted to check all the cards because it was reported that cards with fake DOBs were in circulation. I was able to show mine with no issues, but many were ‘lost’. I only then realised I could change certain numbers (7 to 2, 1 to 0) by writing over the digits to make myself 18!

Yes!

Never needed it back in the late 70s early 80s, no one asked, and tbh no one cared, different times back then

I remember sitting on Montpellier Hill drinking K cider when we finished school for our GCSE's in our school uniform. We'd bought it from the bar there.

Everyone knew the local bar that would serve underage teens and they were always out of the way places. Friday night would always be packed and there was never really any trouble.

Young persons card for child rate on the bus. Designed for 14/15 year olds to prove you weee under 16. You had to go to the post office with your birth certificate and passport photos. I took my younger sister's birth certificate so I travelled as a child until I was 19.

Definitely a thing around 2008 - 2010 when I was in sixth form.

We were all born 1991 / 92 and a girl made a fortune making fake ids. The ploy was photocopying your provisional licence, finding a 0 on the photocopy, cutting that out with nail scissors, glueing it over the 1 or 2 on the date of birth then putting sticky back plastic over the top!

Worked most places in central Manchester

I'll pass those words of wisdom on to my 17 year old who wants to go to the pub with their 18 year old mates

Apparently there has been much discussion amongst DDs college friends around how fake my DDs provisional licence looks. Apparently only reason anyone believes it's real is because it has her actual DOB on, so not helpful at getting her into any clubs 🤣

I also wouldn't know where to get a fake ID, but then I wouldn't know where to procure drugs or fake brand winter coats, but it's quite clear many teens in the town mange to do so!

Of course summer born 6th formers want to go out with their friends to celebrate 18th birthdays and not wait a few months. Teenagers are not know for their patience in wanting to do adult things.

Applied to be a member of a nightclub in my local town. They asked no questions (I think I just told them my fake DOB over the phone), sent them a picture which they laminated. Those were the days!

My friend and I went on the bus into the nearest city and convinced the student Union of an FE college that we were doing a course so we got an NUS card. It was notorious - anyone could wander in and say they were doing hairdressing or plumbing or whatever and they'd just hand it over.

Ds is 17 and paid £40 for a fake drivers license online - he confessed on Christmas eve when we were out at the pub. So yes, they are still a thing, but a bit more sophisticated (and expensive)

I had a fake NUS card in the mid 90's. I didn't use it all that much as I hardly got asked for ID back then. I got asked for ID more after I turned 18 🤣
Sadly it got pinched when my purse got stolen in a pub, at the time I was gutted but all it had it in was that, an under 16 bus pass and about £5 🤣

Yes I'm 50 I remember drinking in pubs from 15 and go8ng to night night clubs under age
As long as you looked 18 you could get away with it
I also borrowed my sisters provisional driving licence once or twice this was in the days before you needed a photo .

Very Blue Peter solution for my friends: when we turned 17 we all got provisional licenses even if we weren’t going to have lessons. Then we printed out numbers to stick on top of the “wrong” year in a tiny font and then put the license in a little plastic card wallet so you couldn’t tell that it just had a bit of paper with a “5” stuck on top of the end of 1986. Sounds ridiculous but it worked all year til we turned 18!

Before we turned 17, we just relied on mini-skirts and going to slightly to less picky places where we were regulars!