On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:11 AM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > 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...
I guess my point is that if you've already pissed off a cop or a rent a cop by shooting something they think you ought not be shooting, showing them a phony ID (whether illegal or not) is only going to piss them off more. Perhaps they're not illegal, but these little things (or an accumulation of them) often make the difference between "a stern warning" and spending the night (or longer) in the can. Pissing someone off by asserting your rights is noble and right. Pissing them off with some stupid-ass fake ID is just idiotic. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
