
Quote from Genius Girl on Dec. 4, 2002 at 12:05 AM

Speaking of I.D, has anyone ever gotten a fake I. D made before?
Why yes, I have. And it was quite an experience:
I was 16 years old and in 10th grade. A buddy at school had just had one made by "this guy that he knew." He said that he could get one for me too, for a price. So I paid
him $20, and he took me over to this guy's house in Green Hills. I paid
that guy $20. He said, "Do you want Kentucky or Indiana?"
"Indiana, I guess," I replied (because it was further away). He then pulled out a giant Indiana driver's licence (about 3' x 2'). He was changing around the height, weight, hair color, etc to match me. There was just a blank blue box where the picture was supposed to be. So he took the license outside, and taped it up on his garage door, and said, "Okay, line your head up in the box." He had a Polaroid camera (yes, that's right, a fucking Polaroid camera). He took a couple of pictures until my head was lined up right. When the picture had developed, he cut out just the license part of the photo, and glued a photocopy of the stuff that goes on the back, and laminated the whole deal. Then...viola...I went from 16 to 21. I was Jeffery Jones from Floyd's Knob, Indiana. Can you believe that?!? I left there feeling that I'd been ripped off so badly.
The crazy thing is that it actually worked...everywhere. I was buying beer for everyone and their sister, including my managers at work. After about six months, though, the party came to an end at 328 Performance Hall, when I got denied at a Matthew Sweet concert. They actually recognized it as fake and confiscated it. Oh well.
(Edited by jamiecarroll at 1:13 am on Dec. 4, 2002)
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