Nose cut off, face spited

[andrewducker]

73 year old man refuses to say "I am over 21." Supermarket refuses to serve him alcohol. Both end up looking pretty fucking stupid.

Comments

[robhu.livejournal.com]

He was asked to /confirm/ he was over 21 which presumably means showing ID.

Even if it doesn't it's off the charts stupid to ask a 73 year old man such a question.

Something similar (but less extreme) happened recently with me. I couldn't go to a convention because I didn't have ID to prove that I'm over 18. This seems pretty stupid to me as it's obvious that I'm over 18. What is really stupid is that they wouldn't let someone in who had a passport that showed they were over 18 that was 2 months out of date.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

No ID was required, the person on the till just required a verbal confirmation that the man was over 21. It may seem a pointless question in this case, and indeed it is, but this is hardly a unique case. If you refused to answer equally pointless questions put to you by customs or immigration officers you would be very quickly arrested.

[kurosau.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's posted elsewhere that they were specifically looking for a confirmation of his age, in the form of id that proved it. It wasn't just a verbal request.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Something similar (but less extreme) happened recently with me...

That sounds perfectly reasonably to me. I haven't seen you, but my girlfriend is your age and is regularly carded, as am I at 25. Furthermore a passport is valid ID whether it's out-of-date or not - indeed, when I carry ID I carry my out-of-date passport so that I don't lose my real one - and that has a picture of me at the age of 12 on it, looking almost exactly the same as I do now. Which is a case in point, really.