Doesn't surprise me a bit...I think most of the time they're just looking for an "offical looking" document.

Dude, I didn't even accept those as IDs to get into the bar when I was a doorman. They're WAY too easy to fake. I'd get pissed off people all the time for that, but it's not a recognized form of ID according to the Liquor Board. Driver's License/State ID or Passport, that's it.

The only reason that anything in the US recognizes that fake Mexican "Matricula Consular" card is because they want the money. "The Mexican government has issued millions of Matricula Consular cards in the past few years, mostly to give illegal aliens a form of identification that banks and other institutions will accept. "

Banks love it. They want to act like they're part of the Latino community. Seen Bank of America and the "Send money to Mexico FREE" signs? (in Spanish, of course.)
I think we need to ban anyone from accepting that card. Or, just to make it fair, I should be able to use my CA DL to open a bank account in Canada.

ya,I'm shocked...

As you can plainly see from a simple look around you, we're not exactly looking for Mexicans.

/makes note to hook up Mexican ID

remind me why we need warrantless wiretaps when homeland security can't find their asses with both hands?

I've had bars turn me away because all I've had with me was my military ID. They said that the B&W pictures aren't sufficient to make a positive ID.

Thankfully, the new IDs have color pictures.

But, it's a sad state of affairs when bars have better security than DHS.

This should have the amusing tag, mostly because the headline is completely accurate.

Reminds me of the story about the DHS official who took the bet to get on an airplaine without showing his ID.

Bet you didn't know that you do NOT need to show ID when going through airport security.

Anyone have the link to that?

It was actually 123 Fake Street.

In the show, at least.

so give your your id card to the border guard..

/come on sing along!
//you know you want to!

Bruce DeCell, a retired New York City police officer, used his phony card -- which lists his place of birth as "Tijuana, B.C." and his address as "123 Fraud Blvd." on an incorrectly spelled "Staton Island, N.Y." -- to enter the building Wednesday for a meeting with DHS officials.


Yeah, um... see... he was white. And kinda official looking. So it's not our fault.

Dumbasses.

The problem is that you all thing that Homeland Security is about ensuring security for the homeland. In reality is about securing government paychecks and powers FROM the sheep of the homeland.

/noobs....

I feel like an idiot, but I can't place the reference in the headline.

SchlingFo [TotalFark]

I've had bars turn me away because all I've had with me was my military ID. They said that the B&W pictures aren't sufficient to make a positive ID.

Thankfully, the new IDs have color pictures.

But, it's a sad state of affairs when bars have better security than DHS.

Thats because when a bar farks up and does wrong, it costs them money with the possibility of the entire business.

When government screws up, they get more money and can expand their 'business'.

Its easy when you think like a republicrat.

Once, while waiting for my new WY drivers license to be delivered, I presented both my recently-expired license and my valid UNITED STATES PASSPORT. I got turned down... from entering the "bar" area of a local Mexican restaurant for the four-dollar all-you-can-eat Taco Tuesday special. And I was a frequent customer!

This is from the moonie paper. I am convinced by that alone that it never happened. This "article" is a work of fiction.

Yeah National ID cards...what a great idea.

all it says is volcano insurance... over and over again

WaywardSon

Once, while waiting for my new WY drivers license to be delivered, I presented both my recently-expired license and my valid UNITED STATES PASSPORT. I got turned down... from entering the "bar" area of a local Mexican restaurant for the four-dollar all-you-can-eat Taco Tuesday special. And I was a frequent customer!

Geez, how many tacos did you eat on your previous trips?

Some bars are stupid with it though. My friend tried to enter a bar with his Puerto Rican drivers license and they said he needed a passport. The funny part is the bartender didn't believe us when we explained that Puerto Rico is a part of the US. Some people are just dumb_sses.

2006-06-12 08:14:29 PM JuniorLax16

I feel like an idiot, but I can't place the reference in the headline.

Can't anyone be content with a simply funny headline anymore? Must everything be an obscure reference?

/I wish that were a reference

If only we had microchips with tamper-resistant explosive devices encapsulating them inserted into our skulls at birth, we wouldn't be in this kind of mess.

Fool me once...uh..shame on..you.
uh..
Fool me...uh..well, we won't get fooled again!

DeCell is guilty of fraud in the federal and state sense...in 2005 the prez signed a law into effect making a federal i.d. card necessary to enter federal buildings... and enhancement of the social security laws in relation to the dhs...

i am sure that n.y., like california or any other state has laws on the books about fake i.d.s and misrepresenting oneself..

fire the idiot(s) who permitted the criminal ex-cop into the building...

/bozos all

Recently the night before a flight I realized that my drivers licence was missing. Fortunately I had the previous one that, thought expired, had the same picture and address of the now missing new one. I was flagged at check-in and had to go through all the heightened security checks. Me in the picture, me on the ticket. Licence expired by 2 mos. What's the point???

I made it in too!

ELKAY
good thing you didn't try to pay the cover in $2 bills

RCL

Can't anyone be content with a simply funny headline anymore? Must everything be an obscure reference?

/I wish that were a reference

I figured it out, Family Guy.

/Right?

Pierced2x, excellent.

Just say Smith or Jones. It don't matter.

JuniorLax16: I feel like an idiot, but I can't place the reference in the headline.

It's from Family Guy:

Sir, I have reviewed this contract, and it offers no coverage at all. It just says "volcano insurance" over and over again and down here in small print it says "He's signing it. He's signing it. I can't believe it."

colslax


Damn beat me to it.

The only federal building in DC with worthwhile security is the White House...or, more accurately, the White House complex.

You can't come in without an appointment. And the USSS guards really do check to make sure your ID matches the name and birthdate on the (pre-screened) appointment list.

It's a civil service security job in a government building. The person was completly incompetent and let someone in through glaring mistakes. I bet 100 billion dollars that security guard was a fat black woman.

Seriously, Fraud Blvd is a real street in Staten Island. Nobody believes it because SI sucks real bad and nobody other than Staten Island natives have been there.

/rode the ferry

I had to wait at the border for an hour with a permanent-resident friend who had a green card - because if you were gonna sneak back into the States, you'd pick a ID with your entire history on a magnetic strip on the back.

I probably went to Windsor about 20 times with another friend who's only proof of citizenship was a photocopied birth certificate. His drivers license said Michigan, and they never asked for more.

Oh, and then there were the agents who tried going across the border with radioactive material and faked papers. They noticed the radioactive material - so at least the detectors are doing their job, I guess - but they didn't question the fake papers.

/homeland security is a joke
//an expensive, formerly color-coded joke

colslax writes: It's from Family Guy

Sure. But I'm thinking the guy got the "123 Fraud Blvd" from "123 Fake Street" courtesy of the Simpsons.

Anybody know Mr. DeCell? Ask him if I'm right.

The authorities are still on the lookout for his accomplice, Bobby Teenager.

Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!

I hope the building was a prison.

Oh, I forgot my favorite:

When I was waiting an hour to get back into the US, they also searched my minivan up and down.

I had a messenger bag on me. That was never opened. Actually, the three times my car's been serached (always when I had someone with a non-Michigan ID in the car with me), they never looked in my bag.

All the times I could've been sneaking back Canadian absinthe, and the worst I ever had was some really good Chicken Shwarma for lunch the next day.

What a waste.

I mean... ahem.

jealex2: DeCell is guilty of fraud in the federal and state sense...in 2005 the prez signed a law into effect making a federal i.d. card necessary to enter federal buildings... and enhancement of the social security laws in relation to the dhs...

The federal law, known as the RealID act, doesn't go into effect until May of 2008. And you can get around the RealID requirement by using your passport to get into buildings or planes.

People have no idea what's about to hit them in two years. Increased fees (try 5x in most cases), providing proof of citizenship (birth certificate, naturalization papers or passport), proof of Social Security number and proof of residency (mortgage/lease agreement, utility bill). Then having DMV employees (who usually get paid less then $10/hr) verify those as geniune, have those documents digitally scanned in and kept for 7 years, contact the issuing agency of each of those documents to verify that they did issue them, get fingerprints and retinal scans of every person and then get to wait for your license to arrive in the mail.

And this is a perfect example as to why RealID won't work. You could have the most tamper-proof ID in the world, but if the person checking it is an idiot, all your "security" goes out the window.

eqtworld

Just trust 'em. It's all for our security. The government wouldn't use terrorism as an excuse to violate our personal freedoms while ignoring things like shipping containers at the ports that aren't as visible as giving Alabama anti-terror funding, right?

I went past cycnicism into outrage, and then when the outrage got unbearable, just kinda got all numb. It's sad when this sort of thing doesn't even surprise or shock me anymore.

dustman81

There are some states that are trying to fight it, since on top of Real ID being a f-cking stupid, stupid, stupid idea on many, many grounds, the government didn't give the states any money or direction on how to go about putting the damn thing into place.

Personally, I like having my identity stolen, privacy invaded, and state funding diverted to do so, so I'm OK with it.

Least I can do to keep the terrorists away, eh?

Not the worst part, but bad enough: the idiots who voted this wingnut into office are barely sorry.

StreetlightInTheGhetto
Just trust 'em. It's all for our security. The government wouldn't use terrorism as an excuse to violate our personal freedoms while ignoring things like shipping containers at the ports that aren't as visible as giving Alabama anti-terror funding, right?

Ever heard of Mobile Bay, aka Port of Mobile? Just curious...

Surveillance footage