America

partyman28

Im goin 2 america in the summer and im only 18, most bars over there r 21's so does ne1 have the same prob??Does ne1 have a solution??

Kali

Where abouts are you going? some states are more strict than others.
If its Boston don't worry.. just say your Irish

Hobbes

It would help if you said where in the US, as state (and sometimes towns) have different laws on when and what you can drink.

Hobbes

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kali:
Where abouts are you going? some states are more strict than others.
If its Boston don't worry.. just say your Irish </font>

To Answer Kali...

Mass has pretty strict liquor laws. Basically it is illegal for a place to serve you without first asking for ID (over 21). So unless they know you as a regular they will card you when you get served or if it's late at night before you can even get into the place.

The upside to this is if they serve you without asking for ID they cannot stop serving you and ask for ID after you have had a drink (providing you can prove you bought it). The reason being is you can go out to a cop on the street and they can close the place on the spot.

Some towns seem stricter then others. I remember Cambridge (town right beside Boston, sometimes people mistake for Boston) they were pretty strict on serving due to students from MIT binge drinking and dying. One of my locals in Mass (in my town) you just have look like you can shave and they will serve you. Not visted by tourists though.

I remember when I was in El Paso (Texas) no one asked me for ID at all. In fact they didn't ask anyone. But the only strange thing I found there was each resturant/bar were licenesed to sell certain brands (in much the same way as a store that sells Pepsi probably won't sell Coke Cola).

Oh yea, by law no off license in the state of Mass is allowed open on a Sunday, and don't say off license as they just look at you funny, it's liquor stores.

Lastly, Vagga mentions it on another thread but there are some states where you can't even buy drink at all without special membership.


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harVee

Had friends who were over 21 in Boston last summer. Fine for them (being of age) but it was a disaster for anyone under 21.
Most clubs didn't even take professional fake driving lisences.
I guess in the south it's easier to get served. I was in New Orleans for a while when I was 20 and I didn't get carded once.

Winning Hand

The only place in the US that the age is un-officially 18 is in the french quartet of new orleans, everywhere else its 21.
And screw that BS about saying your irish, it doesnt work

Actually some clubs let you in if your eighteen but wont sell you alcohol.

adnans

piranha's guide to america

clickhere for page 1

and

click here for page 2

adnans

edited for 56k users.. ah bless



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Da Bounca

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yes?>

harVee

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Winning Hand:
And screw that BS about saying your irish, it doesnt work
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Yeah, you got that one right. Most Irish students going to the US have a massively infalted national ego. The majority of Americans probably couldn't point to Ireland on a map. And why should they be able to. How many countries outside of the EU with a similar population, do Irish people have a great knowledge of. Not many. Girls/Boys will love the accent (they really do ), but after that you may as well be from Latvia...

SheroN

I know a fella he's 28...he's always gettin stopped for id...he does look young enough admitidly....he has had his full irish drivers licence refused in a few places...they just laugh at him....he went in to a garda station here to get one of them new fangled age card things...and the cop wouldn't give him one saying he was too old to be issued with one.
on a related note...theres a few clubs i know of that only accept drivers licences or passports....do they not have to by law accept an age card?...i thoght that was the point of bringing them in...and in fairness it's a lot easier copy a drivers licence than an age card....
im gonna stop babbling now....oh look there's an m&m stuck under my monitor....

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crazydaisie

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kali:
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If its Boston don't worry.. just say your Irish </font>

not my experience, was there when i was 19 and had awful hassle, they're strict cos of all of the colleges around the area, if it's cape cod though you're sorted but the city is strict

Dustaz

If ye're going to New York, just buy booze in deli's. Those guys will server anyone not in nappies

Panda

Tell your parents to buy you beer or suffer the consequences!

Failing that you're screwed.

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Da Bounca

change your avatar and ill tell you all you need to know.

TwoShedsJackson

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Da'Bounca:
change your avatar and ill tell you all you need to know.</font>

Jasus

Harmo

hmmm......

Hobbes

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kali:
Where abouts are you going? some states are more strict than others.
If its Boston don't worry.. just say your Irish </font>

and the comment you will probably get is "not another ****ing one".

Doesn't work in Boston unless you like to listen to guys whine about how they want to be back in Ireland (well go back!) or wanting to know how you manage to live in a war torn country and get to work on your donkey.

But some other states it ranges from "Ireland? what town is that?" to people who will have your kids if you just talk.

What my friends did was make a fake drivers licence.Sure even the real ones look fake .It worked a charm anyway

Eddie Hitler

i think it mite of been a hint, mayb some1 should help him, and not by sayin that he should say he is irish... *nudge nudge*

Bomberman

I think he ment the same thing, and if any 1 has any ideas e-mail me sa@iolfree.ie cause i am in need as well!!!

Illkillya

Partyman - this is very simple, and it works. You scan your passport onto your computer, edit the date in MSPaint to make you 21, print it out on normal paper.

You do not pretend its anything authentic, instead you make it clear to the pub people that you copied your passport so that you woulnd't have to carry it around with you all the time and risk losing it. If you want to make it more believable, make it look like your passport was photocopied in a normal photocopier.

btw.. they are very strict in Massachusetts... when i was living there, my 21 year old half-bald brother wasn't even allowed buy scratch tickets or cigarettes without ID

Bomberman

I know some1 who does that over hear,and gets into a few places, (ex: old wesley ) but if u dont look the age u will more then likly **** it up 4 every body who does it

Hobbes

There tend to be 2 or 3 types of cops in the US.

You have city police (eg. Boston Police, Cambridge Police) ans State police (you also have things like collage police, all valid cops).

Now city police are one thing, but if a state cop catches you with that your looking at serious trouble (State cops you don't mess with).

Lucifer

ye, it would b handy if sum1 could just make a decent lookin fake irish drivers lisecce or provisional 1.... *hint hint* lucifer_pod@hotmail.com

azezil

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Illkillya:
Partyman - this is very simple, and it works. You scan your passport onto your computer, edit the date in MSPaint to make you 21, print it out on normal paper.

You do not pretend its anything authentic, instead you make it clear to the pub people that you copied your passport so that you woulnd't have to carry it around with you all the time and risk losing it. If you want to make it more believable, make it look like your passport was photocopied in a normal photocopier.

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thats so crazy it might actually work!!!

i hav the problem of being (well almost) 21 but look like a 17 yr old.... can get annoying, especially when i'm with my younger friends n they don't get asked...

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azezil

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by adnans:
piranha's guide to america

clickhere for page 1

and

click here for page 2

adnans

edited for 56k users.. ah bless

(edited 10-05-2001).]</font>

page 2 is great LMAO

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Lucifer

great azezil but that still doesnt help him get a fake id (i presume that he would like 1 even though he isnt askin) and as 4 the copyin the passport, it will only work if you look old.

DeVore

Partyman,
What is it that makes you think anyone on Boards.ie has access to illegal documents like ID's and Drivers Licenses.

Please stop requesting them or your username will be banned. Sorry but we cant tolerate it.

DeV.