Use Fake Id example essay topic

Sam BarkasMarch-1-04 Speech Fake ID Just like many college students, Dana and her friends decided to go to a bar one Saturday night. The problem: Not everyone in their group was old enough to enter. The solution: Use fake ID obtained through a friend. So Dana and her friends used fake IDs to enter the bar without a problem, or so they thought. Later that night, police raided the bar. Dana's ID was confiscated and she was later arrested.

It seems like everyone wants to be a different age. Many teenagers want to be either 18 or 21 so they can buy cigarettes or alcohol. And I'm sure everyone has heard their parents say they wish they were 18 again. For the most part people can't change how old they are, but by using fake identification, someone could pretend to be an age older than what they are.

More and more people are using fake ID's. There have been many new advances in technology in recent years. Because of these advances, such as computers and internet, fake ID's are becoming easier to get, and their quality is improving. Not too long after states find ways of making ID's harder to duplicate, the counterfeiters are finding a way to make them. Fake ID's no longer consist of scratching an 8 into a 3. These advances make it hard to tell apart fake ID's from the real thing.

Some websites sell fake ID's from $50-5,000. Selling fake ID's over the internet has increased greatly over the past few years. The internet makes fake ID's readily available, but according to the article "Forged in Plastic" in Missoula, most underage clients buy phony driver's licenses from local manufacturers who use computers, scanners, laser printers, laminators, and special programs. According to the San Diego Union Tribune An estimated 10 million fake ID's are confiscated each year. During spring break last year in Florida, 10,000 fake ID's were confiscated by using a handheld ID verification device made by Logix Company of Colorado.

There are different types of people who use fake ID's for different reasons. Many people who use fake ID's are just teenagers who want to buy alcohol. 18, 19, and 20 year olds generally use fake ID's to drink in bars, while high school students with fakes just go to grocery stores to find beer. There are different consequences of owning or selling fake ID's. Under-aged drinkers that go to bars and are caught with fake ID's are usually ticketed for minor consumption and for carrying false or altered identification. They are usually fined 300 dollars or imprisonment for no more than 60 days.

The bar that sells alcohol faces the biggest risk from fake ID's. The state can take away their right to sell alcohol. For example; a popular downtown bar in Missoula was shut down for 10 days after under-aged drinkers were ticketed there. People selling fake ID's will have harsher consequences than the people using them. A man named Mohamed El-Atrios was sentenced to serve six months in a state prison for selling fake ID's.

According to the Record newspaper of Hackensack, NJ, Two of the people who purchased fake ID's from Mohamed were terrorists. In some cases, fake ID's can seem to be harmless, but in others they can be a big part of a very serious event. In this speech, I have discussed the growing technology and the increasing number of fake ID's being used. And because of this the consequences of using and selling fake ID's is getting harsher.