Worst Nightclub in Town?

jimi_t wrote:

If you're only 10 in the photo then they're more than justified to refuse you. It's your own fault for not having a second ID like a garda or something - get one or get used to getting refused...

what??? surley bouncers can add 10 and 10 and work out she's 20.
admittedly a 10 year old passport is chancing yer arm a bit , but most decent bouncers would have given you the benefit of the doubt, it is a legal form of i.d. after all

Wouldn't it be hell of a lot cheaper if wee all got a passport as a one year old and kept it for life. Then bouncers would have to be supplied with PDA's and morphing software to figure out if the photo matches.

On the passport thingy, I thought it mean that ryanair refused a guy boarding because his passport ws out of date. - As if the expiry date suddenly meant that he wasn't the same person. Incientally the customer won as Ryanair had no listed terms that the passport actually had to be up to date.

Sounds reasonable.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but even 10 years ago, children under 15 could only get a 3-year passport, no? So it this a 10 year old passport that you haven't bothered renewing?

As it stands now, anyone 3-17 years of age can only get a 5 year passport, for the very reason that a 10-year passport invalidates very quickly. Back as far as 1999, anyone under 16 could only get a 3-year passport, but I don't know if it was different in 1995.

Q-bar, Coyote, TramCo., basically anywhere that smells of feet, has smirnoff tap on ice, is ridiculously overpriced, plays dreadful music and doesn't let you in unless you look like a young Michael O' Leary.

To be fair - a night-club is perfectly entitled to tell you to get lost for whatever reason they see fit as long as they don't break the law while doing it.

Similarly if Spar insists on payment in magic beans, they can happily refuse your legal tender and wait for you to come up with the magic beans.

And on the subject of nightclubs - Qbar's pretty dire.

What did they actually say? Did they say, "I'm not letting you in, because you're ten in that photo"? or did they say, "Not tonight, sorry"?

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

they cannot refuse a passport without informing the police of it.carrying some1 elses passport is a serious offence that they accused you of.By not accepting a passport they are saying that they believe that you are the person in the picture.by law it must be reported this is why most bouncers let me in ....you gotta spout legal jargon at em i mean who wants to report that to the police

Having a passport doesn't entitle you to access.

They are allowed to say "We don't accept passports". Strange, but true. Having a passport entitles you, in fact, to nothing, not even to access to another country, and the only bodies required to accept it as proof of identity are Government departments.

The only catch is that if you appeal a company who won't accept your passport as proof of identity, they need to have a good reason why they won't accept it.

Hence my question - did they say, "I don't accept that passport is real", or just "Not tonight, sorry"?

*yawn*

Again... Dublin != world

You showed him a passport that shows you at age 10 in the photo? So you showed him a passport in which the photograph of you probably bore very little resemblance to your current appearance. You're 20 years old. You're probably lucky enough to still *LOOK* young, so having to carry valid photo-ID (i.e.: photo-ID with a photo that LOOKS LIKE YOU) is certainly to be expected. Incidentally, by law, if you are under 21, the onus is upon you to prove you are over 18. The bouncer didn't accept a passport with a photograph of a 10 year old girl in it as proof of your age. Sounds fair enough to me.

If you don't want to shell out for a new passport (seeing as your current one is obviously almost up) then get a Garda ID card ... and for christs sake, quit bitching here about not getting into night clubs and trying to give a bad name to what is probably a fine establishment just because you didn't get allowed in.

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