Bouncers And Bartenders Share The Funniest Time They Caught Someone With A Fake ID.

#1

I bartended for a little while, but my funniest story actually happened to me when I was under 21. It was a few months before my best friend and my 21st birthday and we were partying with our friends who were over 21 already. At college, I had learned how to "chalk" my ID by writing over it with a gel pen and spraying it with hairspray.

I'd successfully chalked mine months ago so all the info was real on it other than the year I was born. (This was before my state had barcodes on our licenses.) Before we went out, I chalked my best friend's, but I didn't do as good a job on hers as I had with mine, mainly because of time constraints. We get to the bar and all our friends go in.

I hand over my ID and the guy looks at it like he's cautious. He wipes his thumb over my birth year to see if it wipes off, but it doesn't (since it had set on there months ago) and he allows me to go inside. He's still a little suspicious when he gets to my best friend. She hands over her ID, he rubs the year with his thumb and when it wipes off he says, "Yeah, this is phoney."

My friend yells, "OH CRAP, RUN!" and flies down the street in her heels leaving her ID and me. The bouncer just looks at me and says nonchalantly, "Um...can you give this back to her? I'm not going to confiscate it. She'll be 21 in two months."

oohitsalady

#2

I live in Australia, where the legal drinking age is 18. Despite looking 16, I myself recently turned 18 and got a job at a fairly busy bar in the middle of the city.

Not an hour into my second shift and still quite nervous and unsure of myself manning the bar, a guy who similarly looks on the wrong side of 18 comes to the bar and asks for a vodka and coke. This was the first potentially underage customer I had encountered, so I am halfway through adding the coke when I remember that I should probably ID him.

So I stumble through asking to see some ID, and the guy out right denies to show me any, saying that I am not even 18 myself. He goes on to threaten that if I didn't serve him, he would tell my supervisor I was illegally serving alcohol.

Gus, the security guard, let him out.

Poll0080

#3

I was a bartender at a local bar. It’s a 16+ bar because in Austria you are allowed to drink beer and wine at the age of 16. There are no bouncers or something because it’s a small bar in a small city.

So one night our local football(soccer) team won a tournament and many people come to celebrate and we had no chance to check all I.Ds because we were 2 barkeepers and about 200+ people are in the pub.

So in this pub there is a bell. When you ring that bell you have to buy a drink for everyone in the pub.

So this one night a kid rings the bell not knowing what it means. Suddenly there was cheering all around and the kid is confused. I walk over to him. Tell him what he just has done. He looks at me with pure terror in his eyes telling me he just has about 50 bucks with him.

I look at him and tell him that he has two options right now:

- Go to the ATM

- Show me his ID to prove he is not 16

He goes for option 2 shows me his ID that states he is 15 and runs out of the pub nearly crying. That was really fun to watch.

Hudabahh

#4

I have a friend named Latiff. He's a big guy. 6'2, 300 pounds. Used to be a linebacker in high school and a bouncer for a while after that. We went out for drinks one night at some hipster spot in Brooklyn. This bar does not have a bouncer but often deals with underage college kids trying to get in.

Latiff was dressed in his black hoodie, leather jacket and baggy jeans, and does not look like the typical patron. We had a few beers and were about to leave. As we're heading towards the door, Latiff spots some young kids coming in off the street so he drags a nearby bar stool to the front door and sits on it, crossing his arms in front of his chest. In the deepest, scariest voice he can muster he says to the kids, "IDs. IDs."

The kids crapped themselves. This is not a bar that normally has a bouncer. And they're clearly underage. One starts digging in his pocket for an ID and the other two just booked it out of there.

Latiff still gets free beer at that bar.

No_quarter

#5

I had a lady refuse to sell me an 80c lighter because my license didn't match the one in her book. Her book was from 2001. This was in 2012. My state redesigned their licenses in between, but she wasn't having any of my “excuses.”

abhikavi

#6

Girl I vaguely knew from around came into a local bar when I was 18. I recognized because she's around the same age as my younger brother. She was at most 15 (drinking age in my country is 18) at the time and trying to buy a double vodka and coke. So I ask her for an ID, and surprise, surprise, she has one. Hands it to me for a look and I see that it's not even a fake, it's the ID of a girl about 4 years older than her, who I also know. "This is not your ID."

"Yes it is."

"I know girl's name very well."

"Oh. Sorry" She promptly left.

DoctorSausage

#7

I worked in a steak restaurant and my co worker lost her ID at the bar next door one night after work, one week later a girl came in and tried to order a drink from the bartender using my co workers ID. Busted!

Burquena_loca

#8

Preface: in England legal drinking age is 18, but it's pretty common to start going to pubs at 16.

So, barman me has 3 obviously 16 year olds walk in on a quiet weekday afternoon. One of them comes up to order, and manages to spit out his order in between nervous "ums..." and "ers..."

Now is a chance for literal karma, as some kindly barman served me when I was his age.

"Listen," I say, "That was pretty terrible. You've got to be more confident if you're gonna pull this off. Why don't you go sit down, think about what you're gonna say, and then come back and try again?"

So, back he goes, nervously chats to his also nervous buddies, and then comes back.

Sure enough, this time his voice doesn't break, and he successfully returns to his table with beer.

I was so proud. Like an alcoholic father.

Hippocratical

#9

When I was a bar back, they let me tend during slow times. No bouncer out at that time. One week night, three clearly underaged college girls come in, already drunk, and order some mixed drinks. I ID them and go to swipe them in the reader, so I have a legit reason to deny them.

The real bartender sees this and tells me to take their order and make them their drinks with no alcohol in them. He waits 2-3 minutes, then shouts out to the bar, "OK guys, if you want a smoke, you have five minutes. The police will be here to do an ID check then and we can't have you outside when they come." They didn't quite run out, but they left quickly.

PunkThug

#10

One night a group of young college kids roll in and I card 'em all immediately. One of the smallest girls had an out-of-state ID with a crease over her face but otherwise looked legit. Asked for anything like a debit card or passport to verify and she told me she left it all in the car.

While I felt bad, I told her she couldn't stay without so off she went into the driving rain. She came back fifteen, maybe twenty minutes later soaked to the bone and plunks down driver's license, debit card, and student ID. I liked her dedication. Bought her tab.

smithandcrossed