There's a regular cottage industry in the US of making "Identification
Cards" that look like official drivers licenses, to facilitate underage
drinking. These ID's look like "Official Government" drivers licenses.
They are not illegal to make or own. If you try to pass one off as a
drivers license if you are not licensed to drive or to obtain a drink if
you're underage would be a crime. But that would be because you were
already breaking the law. I don;'t think there's anyway that you could
be prosecuted for showing one of these to a rentacop or even a real
police officer if he/she hassled you over taking photographs of in an
unrestricted area. I suppose that I could get in real trouble if I took
one with me and tried to use it to photograph the Submarine Base in
Groton CT or The Electric Boat Company, but that would hardly be
because of the ID...
frank theriault wrote:
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:00 AM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote:
It's only false identification if you make a copy of an official ID. If you
use this it's fantasy identification and that's not technically against the
law. If some officious busybody happens to believe it you're using their
own mindset against them. I used to have an "Official Press Pass." I had
the blank forms, supplied my own photograph, typed the information into the
proper places, had it laminated at my own expense. It got me into a lot of
places that would have been restricted. It was only slightly more official
than one of these...
That one says "US Department of Homeland Security" on it. It's made to
look like an "official government document". Even this one is
actually a "fantasy document", why would you want to piss off a cop by
showing him something like that?
I would also be concerned that the law against carrying false ID might
include IDs that ~purport~ to be official gov't docs - which this one
clearly does.
Whatever point may (or may not be) made by carrying such an ID, I
don't think it's worth the risks.
Plus, it's just plain stupid.
cheers,
frank
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