• From getting the race and gender wrong to using a picture of a cartoon character,
we count ten of the least convincing fake IDs ever!
10 – Fire Penguin Disco Panda, • At Planet Dolan we don’t condone the
use of fake IDs.
But if you’re gonna do it, be subtle!
Don’t be like Mr Fire Penguin Disco Panda here.
• For some reason, this guy thought a stupid attention-grabbing name and shit-eater grin
was the way to go for a fake driver’s licence.
You know, the thing that’s supposed to help you get into places undetected?
• Kids, this might get you into the circus, but it won’t get you into any bars.
9 – Fake Nicholson, • Oscar-winning movie star Jack Nicholson
has a very recognisable face: which makes you wonder why Ricardo Barros thought it’d
be smart to use a picture of it on his fake ID.
• The forty-one-year-old Brazilian man tried using the counterfeit ID to open a bank account.
The staff saw right through his scheme and he was swiftly shown the door – to the backseat
of a cop car, that is!
• The dumbest part is that he may have gotten away with it if he didn’t pick one of the
most famous portraits of Nicholson.
The image he chose was taken by a famous photographer named Martin Schoeller, and it’d been published
in numerous magazines and shown in museums all around the globe.
So, yeah, not much exposure there.
8 – David Scott Beerdrinker, • Virginian police want to shut down the
fake ID website responsible for this underage force of nature.
• David Scott Beerdrinker of 21 Bacardi Lane in the suburb of Smirnoff is wanted on
twelve counts of immaturity.
• His fake driver’s licence photo proudly advertises his hard-partying ways.
It’s said that no woman can tame him – err, probably because they wouldn’t want to.
7 – Batman, Son of Superman, • Hard to believe, but this unconvincing
ID is actually one hundred percent real!
This young Singaporean’s actual name is Batman Bin Suparman.
• His name, which translates to ‘Batman son of Superman’, has made him a social
media sensation.
His Facebook page alone has over 12,000 likes.
Not bad for an unemployed twenty-something who’s pretty much accomplished nothing worthy
of global attention.
• Unfortunately, Batman’s story also has a dark side.
He was arrested in 2013 for breaking into a store on two separate occasions and stealing
thousands in cash.
I blame his parents.
Pretty much set him on the path to super villainy giving him that name.
6 – Wrong Gender, • This one seems pretty solid as far as
fake IDs go – until you realise the idiots who made it put the wrong gender on the card!
• This poor woman.
She may be allowed into bars, but every bouncer she meets will probably do a double-take – for
the wrong reasons.
5 – Couple’s ID, • You know those couples who seem to be
permanently joined at the hip?
Well, these two take co-dependency to the next level!
• It seems Jose Pacheco couldn’t bear to be apart from his girlfriend while taking
the photo for his fake driver’s licence.
So he ended up taking it with her right there in the frame.
• Eh, why not?
If they’re inseparable people probably wouldn’t recognise him without her super-glued to his
side.
“Hmm…
Sorta looks like that guy, but it mustn’t be; I don’t see that babe hanging off his
arm…” 4 – Rodney Trotter,
• An underage British man was denied entry to a pub after he presented ID belonging to
an Eighties sitcom character.
The ID read ‘Rodney Trotter of Peckham’, a character from the show Only Fools and Horses.
It featured the face of the actor who played him and even had the character’s iconic
address from the show.
Points for accuracy, I guess!
• Staff were immediately suspicious because the date of birth read 26th of February 1960
– which would’ve made this nervous teenager fifty-two years old!
• The boys in blue were notified but this guy was racing down the street laughing by
the time they arrived.
Just as well too.
Getting caught with a fake ID could have scored him two years’ jail time.
3 – The Joker, • What’s the next best thing to a Jack
Nicholson-themed fake ID?
How about one that features one of his most famous movie characters?
That’s right, this… joker… dressed up as the Joker from Batman and somehow got himself
a completely legitimate national ID card.
• The Dutchman claims he did it to protest strict new laws that prohibit smiling or making
funny faces in any photo ID.
Somehow no one questioned his strange clothes or painted face.
They did ask him to remove his head, but caved immediately when he told them it was for ‘religious
reasons’.
• Truly a criminal mastermind. 2 – Wrong Gender,
• A male Reddit user recalled the time he got into a bar using an unknown girl’s ID
that he found on the floor.
• The wide-eyed freshman was so desperate for some nectar of the gods that he took a
stab at getting in using some seriously mismatched ID.
This tall, skinny Hispanic guy looked nothing like the overweight African American girl
in the photo.
• The bouncer saw right through it, but let him and his friends in anyway.
These college kids then laughed all the way to the bar.
Their beer tasted like sweet victory.
1 – Bobby Hill, • A young man in England bought alcohol
from six different stores using a fake ID with a cartoon character on it.
• That’s right: instead of using a convincing lookalike, this guy used a picture of Bobby
from King of the Hill.
I’m not sure what he was thinking.
Even fictional Bobby’s too young to buy booze!
At least he picked a character that was the same gender as him, though.
• This was actually part of an undercover operation to catch liquor stores selling to
minors.
Out of the twenty-two stores tested, six accepted the ID while a seventh didn’t look at it
all.
“What in the hell, England?”