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By Steve Noble
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It was Saturday night and Deb wanted
to go to a bar with her friends.
She was underage, but that didn't
matter. She just borrowed her friend's
driver's license and made the trip from
Schramm Hall to a bar downtown.
When she arrived, the doorman asked
to see an identification card. She
handed the license to him. He looked
at the picture, then at her.
"Could you sign your name, please?"
he asked. Deb signed the name of the
woman on the ID.
"This isn't your driver's license," the
doorman said, after comparing signa
tures. "Wait here," he said, as he
pointed to a corner of the bar and left
to call the police.
That evening, Deb was cited. One
month later, she was fined $68 in court.
Deb is not alone. College students,
police officers and bar managers con
firm that with a recently changed
drinking age and the constant lure of
nightlife and alcohol, many minors are
willing to risk being caught using false
identification.
Statistics on the use of fake and
altered ID cards are hard to find, since
many bars just refuse admission if peo
ple may be under age. Often the ID is
confiscated and the minor simply leaves
the establishment.
Kirk Welsh, manager of PO Pears,
said his bar confiscates about four IDs
on busy nights.
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Detective Myron Carkoski of the Lin
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Minors find many ways to get into
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A "peel-back" system often is used.
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peeled back and small drafting letters
are put over the actual date. Then the
ID is relaminated. Birth certificates
also are used to get ID cards. They are
changed or borrowed to establish a new
identity with a different age.
Although many minors are successful
in these attempts, personnel in the
Drivers License Issuing Office and the
police warn that using someone else's
birth certificate is a federal offense.
Minors who use false ID cards are sub
ject to a $500 fine or three months in
jail.
Bars often play a part in enforce
ment, according to Kirk Benson, man
ager of Barrymore's.
"Since we don't have anyone carding
at the door, we have a lot more minors
come in," Benson said. "But we pay the
waitresses $2 every time someone is
unable to prove they are of age."
Welsh said PO Pears pays its door
men $10 for each fake ID card they
confiscate. The doormen often com
pete to see who can catch the most
illegal IDs in one night, he said.
But most bar owners find good rea
son for the constant screening for
minors. Carolyn Hatfield, supervisor of
the Liquor Control Enforcement Div
ision, said the use of fake IDs probably
is, the most common violation. When a
minor is discovered drinking, the bar is
closed for 10 days or fined $50 a day for
the first offense. With a previous sus
pension, the fine is $100 a day.
Officials see no sign of a drastic
increase brought on by a rise in the
drinking age. Nor is there any sign of a
crackdown or a reduction in the numbers
of underage drinkers.
"The reason that it happens a lot is
because there are a lot more minors out
there than police officers," Carkoski
said.
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