this is from 2001 before computer printing got really good lmao.
Fake IDs are "getting so good now that we actually have to use laboratory equipment to detect them," says Dave Myers of Florida's Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco. "The average printer you can buy from Wal-Mart creates a very good quality license."
During four spring-break weeks this year, Myers and his agents staked out bars, restaurants and nightclubs in two Florida beach towns, Panama City and Daytona Beach. Myers says police looked for
IDs with flawed holograms and incorrect letter and number codes that are supposed to be known only by police and a state's motor vehicles department.
They arrested about 350 teenagers for carrying fake IDs and 1,200 for underage drinking and confiscated 10,000 bogus IDs. That's an indication, Myers says, of the enormous popularity of counterfeit licenses among high school and college students. If you extrapolate the Panama City and Daytona Beach figures, he says, "you're talking millions and millions" of fake IDs around the country.
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Fake IDs are "getting so good now that we actually have to use laboratory equipment to detect them," says Dave Myers of Florida's Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco. "The average printer you can buy from Wal-Mart creates a very good quality license."
During four spring-break weeks this year, Myers and his agents staked out bars, restaurants and nightclubs in two Florida beach towns, Panama City and Daytona Beach. Myers says police looked for
IDs with flawed holograms and incorrect letter and number codes that are supposed to be known only by police and a state's motor vehicles department.
They arrested about 350 teenagers for carrying fake IDs and 1,200 for underage drinking and confiscated 10,000 bogus IDs. That's an indication, Myers says, of the enormous popularity of counterfeit licenses among high school and college students. If you extrapolate the Panama City and Daytona Beach figures, he says, "you're talking millions and millions" of fake IDs around the country.
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