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Discrimination against foreign IDs in Tesco

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  • #32
    The J Stands for Jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,904 ✭✭✭The J Stands for Jay


    eeguy wrote: »
    So? If I use my paper Irish driver license in the US, they look at me like I'm an idiot.
    If you were tasked with serving alcohol and a foreign lad handed you an ID you'd never seen before, would you sell to him?
    Why couldn't the Polish lad use his passport?
    Or get an Irish ID, like a Public Services Card, driver license or Garda ID?

    I've used my paper Irish driving licence to buy alcohol and loads of US pubs and clubs; I've also used it to rent a car in the US and Greece.

    The PSC isn't a valid form of identification.


  • #33
    prinzeugen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,891 ✭✭✭prinzeugen


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    Garda age card shock take about 5 minutes to knock up with MS Paint.
    About as hard to forge as the other absolute "fool proof" proof of address, the notoriously hard to forge ESB bill.
    Honestly, had I bothered I could have had 10 identities in Ireland.

    The Garda ID is hard to fake. We seized many attempts some good, most piss poor efforts.

    Get caught with one and you are in trouble.


  • #34
    Stephen15
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    prinzeugen wrote: »
    You have to if you want drink. Just to add, it is not the shop/company that gets prosecuted for selling to someone underage, it is the shop worker.

    I have refused to serve people over 18 before as I thought they were supplying to under 18's. I could have been screwed not the shop.

    But who's going to catch you do the Guards really keep an eye on it much? Because I certainly don't see Gardai outside off licences and supermarkets on a regular basis.


  • #35
    prinzeugen
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    Stephen15 wrote: »
    But who's going to catch you do the Guards really keep an eye on it much? Because I certainly don't see Gardai outside off licences and supermarkets on a regular basis.

    Garda find a load of pissed under 18s in a park. Receipt from Tesco etc. They will be coming after the person that served them not the shop.

    I have seen it happen to a former co-worker. Up in the District Court because he did not check the ID properly.

    Then you have the sting operations. Send in someone under 18 to see if they are asked for ID.

    It happens more often than you think.


  • #36
    Stephen15
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    prinzeugen wrote: »
    Then you have the sting operations. Send in someone under 18 to see if they are asked for ID.

    It happens more often than you think.

    That's what I've always wondered about. What under 18 would sign up for such operation, for the fear of being branded a rat what's the incentive for anyone to take part in these test purchases?


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  • #37
    Cordell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,591 ✭✭✭Cordell


    Ahhhh for forks sake! wrote: »
    Polish make up a huge part of our society
    They should get Irish documents in this case. Garda age card and Irish driving licence is available to any Irish resident. (False) problem solved.


  • #38
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    Stephen15 wrote: »
    That's what I've always wondered about. What under 18 would sign up for such operation, for the fear of being branded a rat what's the incentive for anyone to take part in these test purchases?

    You get paid, that's enough.


  • #39
    Andre43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭Andre43


    Dunnes have/had a similar policy(happened a few years ago). They wouldn't accept a drivers licence from the north as valid ID.


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