Identificat​ion

Okay, no laughing, but I have trouble proving my age sometimes. I even get asked for proof of age when purchasing (12) media, so you can imagine how buying (15) stuff is going to be when I'm actually old enough in October.

So, I'm looking to get identification of some sort. A last resort is Fake ID, which isn't too immoral considering nothing on it would actually be fake The problem is, a) I don't want to go with the Home Office's solution and b) You've got to be 16 to have ID from there anyways.

So, I've no idea where to turn to get ID now. I could just carry my passport around with me, but then again losing it would be quite a big problem considering their price seems to get higher and higher. It's a pity that society has become a place where you need to be asked your age at every turn... but alas, this is a hurdle I need to jump (keeping in theme with the olympics ).

Any ideas? I'd like to be able to go and see movies without having to phone home or bring my passport...

edit: it has to be available in the United Kingdom!

I'd just use the passport and no lose it...

Getting a fake ID sounds like the best way to get yourself banned from pretty much everything.

http://www.dmv.org/id-cards.php

State ID cards by the DMV

I've had parents in my family (mine, others) visiting from out of country get this. Comes in handy for insurance purposes and other places.

I don't know your state, but you can checkout the requirements. Its also useful if you aren't old enough to get a drivers license (I think your case).

Let us know if this works for you. Might come in handy for other people too. The card looks just like a drivers license, except it's just a state issued ID. Doubt anyone will have problems with it

keeron said:

http://www.dmv.org/id-cards.php

State ID cards by the DMV

I've had parents in my family (mine, others) visiting from out of country get this. Comes in handy for insurance purposes and other places.

I don't know your state, but you can checkout the requirements. Its also useful if you aren't old enough to get a drivers license (I think your case).

Let us know if this works for you. Might come in handy for other people too. The card looks just like a drivers license, except it's just a state issued ID. Doubt anyone will have problems with it

Well, I could use a Passport but I'm not trusted enough to look after it! Though I've snuck it out of the house once or twice when I want a day to go flawlessly...

And I'm in the UK, so that doesn't work. Sorry!

Lloyd_Humph said:

keeron said:

*snip*

Well, I could use a Passport but I'm not trusted enough to look after it! Though I've snuck it out of the house once or twice when I want a day to go flawlessly...

And I'm in the UK, so that doesn't work. Sorry!

If you're not old enough for a passport, howcome your avatar has a goatee?

Just kidding!

Maybe you should glue one of those on, then maybe they would let you buy the cigarettes

Still kidding!

Or just stand outside the shop and pay a bum a pound to buy them for you!

Ok, I have no intention of replying seriously,...

Okay maybe I am;

You need to prove that you are trustworthy enough to own a passport. So don't sneak out of the house, do your chores, do your homework, respect the curfew and be nice to your sister.

Earn the trust. Get the passport, then buy them cigarettes!

Maddus Mattus said:

Lloyd_Humph said:

*snip*

If you're not old enough for a passport, howcome your avatar has a goatee?

Just kidding!

Maybe you should glue one of those on, then maybe they would let you buy the cigarettes

Still kidding!

Or just stand outside the shop and pay a bum a pound to buy them for you!

Ok, I have no intention of replying seriously,...

Okay maybe I am;

You need to prove that you are trustworthy enough to own a passport. So don't sneak out of the house, do your chores, do your homework, respect the curfew and be nice to your sister.

Earn the trust. Get the passport, then buy them cigarettes!

I have a passport, I just don't get to take it out with me. I have the trust, it's just.. passports are expensive to replace, and things do get lost!

And I don't sneak out the house, I sneak the passport out the house

Lloyd_Humph said:

Maddus Mattus said:

*snip*

I have a passport, I just don't get to take it out with me. I have the trust, it's just.. passports are expensive to replace, and things do get lost!

And I don't sneak out the house, I sneak the passport out the house

Ahhh yes I see,...

Well, they are pretty expensive and important. If you lose a passport in Holland you have to go to the police and get a report saying you lost it. You then get to pay a fine and pay a new passport.

We also have the rules that you need to be 16 to buy stuff, and that some movies are rated 18+. But no one seems to enforce it. Why don't you come live over here?

Lloyd_Humph said:

Maddus Mattus said:

*snip*

I have a passport, I just don't get to take it out with me. I have the trust, it's just.. passports are expensive to replace, and things do get lost!

And I don't sneak out the house, I sneak the passport out the house

If you do go the path of getting fake id. be sure to use your C9 avatar image. you look 21 in it. =)

Does your school issue ID cards to its students? If so, then I am fairly sure these are recognised as valid forms of identification.

In Hong Kong, we're given juvenile ID card at age of 11, to be replaced for an adult one at age of 18.

It pretty much surprise me that people in UK don't, as I thought most of the government policies before 1997 are copied from UK.

Maddus Mattus said:

Lloyd_Humph said:

*snip*

Ahhh yes I see,...

Well, they are pretty expensive and important. If you lose a passport in Holland you have to go to the police and get a report saying you lost it. You then get to pay a fine and pay a new passport.

We also have the rules that you need to be 16 to buy stuff, and that some movies are rated 18+. But no one seems to enforce it. Why don't you come live over here?

Maddus, are you inviting a school boy to come to your country to live with you? Will he be getting lots of candy and toys?

blowdart said:

cheong said:

*snip*

Under the age of 16 you cannot enter into legal contracts; so it kind of makes sense you cannot get ID either.

But if the legal age for certain things, like Lloyd described, is 15, how is one going to prove it when you can't get an ID until 16?

Bas said:

blowdart said:

*snip*

But if the legal age for certain things, like Lloyd described, is 15, how is one going to prove it when you can't get an ID until 16?

He'll just have to take his mum with him

Herbie

TommyCarlier said:

Maddus Mattus said:

*snip*

Maddus, are you inviting a school boy to come to your country to live with you? Will he be getting lots of candy and toys?

Errrmmm,...

no comment

blowdart said:

Bas said:

*snip*

Ah but until you're 16 you cannot self certify yourself; you are the responsibility of your parents; full stop.

Ah, right. I guess that makes sense.

Sorry Lloyd. Still, less than two years to go.

blowdart said:

Bas said:

*snip*

Ah but until you're 16 you cannot self certify yourself; you are the responsibility of your parents; full stop.

Financially accountable till your 21st, here in Holland