Cashiers/bouncers of Reddit, what was the most hilariously bad fake ID you've ever seen?

1. I worked in a college bar in Ohio my senior year and on two occasions I had students hand me pieces of paper that said "I am 21" and on one occasion I was handed a Spongebob Squarepants boaters license.
   — BleachConcierge


2. Kind of the reverse, when I was 19 I had a younger cashier tell me my ID was fake. It wasn't. I was infuriated and she eventually just sold me the cigarettes anyway and said, "Get a better fake ID next time." I really wanted to go talk to her manager and tell them that not only did she call my valid ID a fake, but she sold me cigarettes thinking it was fake.
   — CosmosWithoutHatred


3. Years ago I worked at a gas station, and had quite a few under 18 friends that would constantly bug me to sell them cigarettes. Sometimes I did, sometimes I didn't - depended on the day, what other coworkers were there, and my mood. I got a text one day from a buddy who's 17 asking if he could come in for a pack. My boss was working behind the counter, but doing financials or whatnot, not cashiering. Text him back "Yeah, I have to ask you for an ID, so show me yours and I'll pretend its good, and we'll be set" So dude comes in, asks for a pack of marb reds, I ask for his id. In his proudest moment, he slams down an ID. I pick it up to 'scrutinize it' and its his fucking little brothers learning permit. I almost lose it laughing, like, why would you show me someone youngers id you twat?
   — AmySchumersAnalTumor






4. Used to cashier at a little burger place that also had an ice chest with beer bottles at the front counter. On a very slow weekday afternoon, a chubby teenage boy who looked around 13-years-old walked in by himself and awkwardly ordered a Coors Light. No food or anything, just a beer. I flatly told him "I.D. please." He gave me a blank deer in the headlights stare, robotically patted his chest, waist, and upper leg like he was pretending to search for pockets that weren't even there, and replied "Oh, I must have left it in my car. I'll be right back." So the kid scurried outside, hopped on his bicycle and zoomed off.
   — 0w1


5. I also was a 'bouncer' for a small music venue when I was 19. The boss paid us in beer, that we drank in the back room before/on breaks/after shows. We rarely actually checked ids. Although, that wasn't his worst business decision. He ended up getting caught doing coke with some 14 year old girls in his "office in the basement" and narrowly escaped some sex charges, and the club closed
   — AmySchumersAnalTumor


6. I worked at a large tourist destination in Florida for a while. I worked the club admissions for this locations - tickets, ID's, wristbands. The night in question, I was doing tickets & wristbands. My buddy motions to me.. "hey, Can you take a look at this ID?" - one glance and I knew it was not just a no, but a hell no. So I suggested to the nice lady who was not much younger than I was that while I could let her in as 18+ to enjoy the club, I could not give her a wristband to drink with the ID she had. She was also the only person in the group from this state... Oh boy... I unleashed some fun right there. Now I was the one ruining their entire trip because I wouldn't let her drink on a fake ID. Claiming it was real... asking why I thought it was fake. I pointed out the photo was off, and the ID material was wrong for starters. Certainly not the worst fake I've seen, but one of the few times someone wanted to fight over it. Normally they'd grab the ID and just leave. Not her. not her group. Finally after going back and forth about it, I suggested that I could certainly call the County Police over and have them take a look... "Why would you do that? It's not even fake. FU... bla bla bla. You don't know what X state ID even looks like" Funny thing was, working at this place, we all wear name tags. The name tags all say "NAME - City, State" - so I did what any clear-headed person would do and whipped out my ID that just happened to be from her home state. This is what mine looks like. This is what yours looks like... Hello tears. Never seen a girl cry so hard about being 18-20 years old.
   — tsr6






7. I had a kid who looked to be about 11 come in and want to buy a 6 pack. His ID said he was 33 was stamped with “for novelty use only” all over it. The best part was his picture was a full body selfie of him taped on the front.
   — ZafrinaKuu


8. Bouncer at a bar, we were using the black light on IDs one night (obviously we were shining it all over eachother like a bunch of idiots as well). Anyway this little blonde white girl comes up and hands me her Florida ID. The thing with Florida IDs is that they have a small hologram of the persons driver license photo in the bottom right hand corner of the license. So I take the ID from her, shine the black light over the card, check to make sure it's the same girl in the photo who handed me the ID, check for holograms and whatnot, then right before I hand it back I give it another go over with the black light, and instantly burst out laughing. In the bottom right hand corner of the ID, where there is supposed to be a hologram of this little white girl, was a hologram of a HUGE bald black man. I laughed so hard I nearly fell over. Edit: spelling
   — zoomper99


9. I aint a bouncer but back when I was 19, me and some room mates wanted to go this this amazing bar down the road having a valentines day party where all the women would be wearing lingerie and pajamas. We all looked like fucking babies and decided that on 1 hour notice, a fake ID would not be an option. So we made our own crude ID's by scanning our drivers licenses onto a computer and going into Microsoft Paint and adding some modifications. My friend had a top hat and Mr. Monopoly Monocle to demonstrate that he was a gentleman tycoon well respected by society. I had a pirate hat and an eye patch to show that I was well accustomed to drinking rum every day. The best part was that my ID was vertical as opposed to horizontal in my state until age of 21, and on the bottom they say "Under 21 until dd/mm/yyyy" We were lazy and desperate and buzzed so I blanked out under and put over so it said "over 21 until dd/mm/yyyy". We printed these monstrosities out, that probably had no more than 120 pixels (they were god awful), and glued them to our real Id's with glue sticks (like a fucking child would think to do). I presented this ID proudly with all the confidence and swagger of a young pirate, with as straight a face as you can imagine, and the bouncer nearly died crying from laughter as this was the most brazen attempt to gain access to the bar he had ever seen. He quickly glanced in either direction and waved us in giving us our "ID's" back. TL"DR: the bouncer thought I was a pirate with benjamin buttons disease
   — MusicTravelWild






10. Few months before my 18th Birthday, I entered a Casino in London with my real ID. I told the bouncers that as it is an Arab ID, the month and the day were reversed (thankfully my friend was also born before the 12th) So yeah couldn't believe how easily that worked. I ended up winning £ 500, great night!
    — nonfat88


11. I was once handed a fake ID where the listed date issued was five days after the listed expiration date. It's the only time in 7 1/2 years of restaurant work that I've actually asked somebody if they were serious after handing me an ID.
    — fuzzy510