Superbad, the 2007 coming-of-age saga starring Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Emma Stone, and Bill Hader, has developed a rabid fan over the years, so much so that its impact can be felt even amidst today’s youth. Look no further than 20-year-old Iowa man Daniel Burleson, who was busted for passing off a copy of the infamous Superbad fake ID as his own.
Here’s the context: In the film, Hill and Cera’s characters, Seth and Evan are high school seniors hell-bent on partying and losing their virginity before heading off to college. They rely on pal Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) to buy booze with his fake Hawaiian ID, which contains but one name: McLovin. Y’know, as if he’s an Irish R&B singer.
Anyways, Burleson was caught with a drink in his hand at a bar, according to WSVN 7News. He ended up showing his real ID after leaving the place, but the cops searched his wallet and found the fake McLovin ID he used to buy the alcohol. The best part? He bought that fake ID off of Amazon for $15.
Seth Rogen, who co-wrote and stars in the movie, took to Twitter on Wednesday with a simple response: “My work here is done.”
But seriously, what bartender accepted that I.D.?
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But seriously, what bartender accepted that I.D.?
I guarantee (s)he only looked at the picture and the birth date, especially if it was busy.
And maybe not even the picture.
Which is nuts because I look nothing like the picture on my ID (more hair, fatter face) and I almost always get a “you’ve changed a lot” comment. They always look at my picture.
As an ex-bartender at a very busy establishment, your theory checks out. I learned my lesson when I got my one and only citation for selling alcohol to a minor. In my defense the girl looked to be at least in her early 30s but it turns out you can do a lot with smoky makeup and a Canadian ID.
Or more likely, one who grew up with the movie and did everything he could to contain himself when shown it, selling to the 20 year-old out of respect.
It was in Iowa City. Ain’t no one checking IDs in any establishment there or they go out of business.
Had a full beard when I was 16…never carded. Shaved it off when I was 22 and was carded every time for the next 8 years.
For everyone under 21 using a fake ID, hide it in your shoe when you see the cops. Saved me from an extra charge way back. Have fun and be safe!
Also works for sneaking stuff into concerts.
Used to work for sneaking stuff onto airplanes, too.
As a European Ill never understand US drinking laws ..you’re old enough to vote, drive, join the army and be tried as an adult , but not drink alcohol ??
Good rule of thumb for understanding our laws: imagine the reaction of, say, an old Lutheran minister of, oh, about 75 years of age. If it would be the kind of thing that would make him inveigh about “kids these days”, then we’ve almost certainly at least tried to make it illegal. If it would make him think “darn right, we need to knock some responsibility into these kids!”, then we’ve probably tried to make it mandatory.Our laws become a lot more understandable once you realize that a lot of our procedures have the accidental effect of overvaluing the votes of old people. We make voting onerous, so ties go to the demographics that have the time to show up, of which retirees are overrepresented. We overrepresent rural areas, which is precisely where a lot of the young people in the country are fleeing from, because there are no jobs there. We rhetorically tie a lot of our government aid to whether or not the person “deserves” the aid, which of course results in a lot of aid to old people that have “worked hard their entire lives”, as opposed to the presumably-lazy able-bodied young people, meaning functionally that old people have a lot more interests to defend at the polls than young people do. None of these rules are explicitly designed to produce a gerontocracy, but they all skew the system in that direction.
The “join the army” part is always the weirdest inversion to me
The teenage years are still when the brain is not yet mature enough for critical thinking skills (full maturity happens around age 25). So that’s why the U.S. military actively targets high school students for recruitment.
..its the weird thing that you can legally allow someone to put themself into a possibly fatal combat situation , but not drink.Although if you were dispatched to another country and on leave there’s more likelihood you could get as drink at 18 .
For at least some time, you could drink at 18 on an army base, because the drinking-age laws were all state laws (and varied from state to state), but the base was federal land, thus not subject to the state law. But now I think either the drinking age is federal or because it’s 21 for all 50 states, it might as well be federal, so that doesn’t apply anymore.
Germany has it right: learn how to handle your liquor first, then learn how to drive once alcohol is under control.
I know. We really need to stop letting old people vote and put more of them in the military.
And the drinking age only went up in the last 35-40 years. The legal drinking age dropped in most states after the 26th amendment lowering the voting age, but it gradually came back up until they passed a national law sticking it at 21.Ostensibly, this is because of traffic fatalities related to drunk driving.
It’s really a holdout from when 21 was the age of majority on the federal level. Roosevelt lowered the age for the draft from 21 to 18, which opened the door for lowering the voting age later on. Post prohibition a lot of states had 21 as the drinking age, but some lowered it when the voting age changed. So some states you had to be 21, some 18, some 19, and so on. Eventually the federal government stepped in to make a national age of sale, and the conservative side won with 21. The opposition was probably split up with states rights people not wanting any federal standard, and everyone who wanted it to be in sync with all the other shit.
Don’t know what it is in Europe, but yeah, here in Australia it’s 18, the same age that voting etc. becomes legal.
has developed a rabid fan over the years
Just one, but seriously rabid.
Fun fact: 100% of Superbad fans have contracted rabies from a squirrel bite.He lives in Peoria.
It’ll be zero once they put him down for the safety of the community.
You know kids, most of the stuff in that movie was funny because it was so crazy it wouldn’t possibly happen. Cops are not your friends.
I’ll never get used to the idea that you can’t legally drink in the States until you’re fucking 21. Many people that age have jobs and families but they’re still treated like goddamn children if they want to have a beer.
“Most” people who are 21 don’t have families. Look it up chief.
I said “many,” not “most,” boss.
You edited that. I distinctly remember “most” just 18 hours ago.
Lol, no.
Your comment was six hours after theirs. The edit window closes after 15 minutes.Just admit you misread and move on.
Comments can be edited for up to 15 minutes after posting and you replied to that comment 6 hours after it was posted.
Yep. Jew caused misschief. His work is indeed done. Shitbag.
Any other country, he would have been able to legally drink for a while already. The age in the USA was 18 until the boomers changed it in 1986.
I read the headline about this kid being busted, and I wondered how young this teen was.He’s 20. There has to be an age limit where headlines have to stop calling grown-ass adults “kid”.
A cool bartender.
A cool bartender.
lol, this brings back memories… of going to bars with a fake version of my own ID because all I got was my passport and I really didn’t trust myself going out with that on me.
Turns out, a fake, out of scale, badly home printed, hand laminated french ID will be accepted in most bars ^^
The only time it was recognized, the bouncer was fucking french, and he still let me in because my story was believable enough, including the “come on dude, I’ve been drinking since before I could walk, I’m from the french countryside, you know how it is, even if I were 16 I’d still outdrink all these bozos and leave with my dignity still on ^^”