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Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?
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#62Wow! I wish I was in SF. Hopefully someone as friendly as you will be doing this in London (UK) next year.
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#64Thank you so much for being an awesome human being. People like you are my motivation.
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#65Very nice of you! on a related note, I'm curious. SwigMe.com seems very interesting, but I would think there are a lot of legal loopholes you need to jump through, no? What happens when teenagers try to order and present a good fake ID at the door?
For a few dollars extra ups and fedex wil verify that the recipient of the shipment is 21 years or older.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Haha, no need for fake ids in Europe :) :)
Not sure where in Europe you're located, but in England (with a drinking age of 18) the usage of fake IDs by 16 and 17 year olds is pretty frequent.
Admittedly my experience is a good more than a 13 years ago, but I've never known anyone in London who used a fake id to drink. While the age at which one can buy alcohol is 18 (there's no prohibitions against drinking it, just buying it) it's so loosely enforced that it's generally just a matter of going to an off licence down the road if the first one asks for ID, so there's almost no point at all in getting a fake ID. Added to that is that there isn't any form of ID other than passports or driving licences which would have a data of birth on them, and an under 21 yr old not having either wouldn't be particularly unusual anyway.
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#67Very nice of you! on a related note, I'm curious. SwigMe.com seems very interesting, but I would think there are a lot of legal loopholes you need to jump through, no? What happens when teenagers try to order and present a good fake ID at the door?
I always thought that you can see fake IDs only on TV.. Do kids in USA really have "fake ids"? I mean cmon ..this is hilarious
I knew someone in university that knew someone that made fake ids in Michigan. Even after they upgraded the driver's licenses to have holograms, etc, this guy apparently had sheets of hologram stickers to put over the fake ids. This stuff seems like big business in 'college towns' where there are a lot of under-age kids on their own that want to drink.
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#68This is just plain nice. It's not often you get to say than on HN :)
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#69Bummer. I kind of wish I hadn't agree to go to my gf's family's house. I would rather be nerding out.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure where in Europe you're located, but in England (with a drinking age of 18) the usage of fake IDs by 16 and 17 year olds is pretty frequent.
Admittedly my experience is a good more than a 13 years ago, but I've never known anyone in London who used a fake id to drink. While the age at which one can buy alcohol is 18 (there's no prohibitions against drinking it, just buying it) it's so loosely enforced that it's generally just a matter of going to an off licence down the road if the first one asks for ID, so there's almost no point at all in getting a fake…
I think things have changed a lot in the last decade or so in the UK in this respect. When I was at high-school we all went drinking in pubs from age 16 (with an 18 lower age limit); I genuinely doubt that's possible now given bar staff are supposed to challenge you if you look under 21.