When TikToker Alyssa (@lyssnikaye) was in college, she got caught using her dead sister’s ID to get into bars while underage. She and her sister were four years apart and looked almost identical. She used her sister’s ID for two to three years to get into her small-town bar.
She was 20 years old and going into her junior year of college when her sister passed away. Of course, Alyssa still had her ID, and all her friends had fake IDs.
“Quite frankly, I didn’t really think of the aftermath of using an ID of someone who is no longer living, so we all decided that we were going to the next town over, which was a really big town and had a bunch of bars,” said Alyssa.
“As we were coming up to the bar, we saw a really long line, and we saw that they were really checking IDs a lot more than the other ones.”
Her friends were worried about getting caught, but not Alyssa, because she had a legitimate ID even though it wasn’t technically hers. She strutted up to the bouncer and slapped her ID into his hand. He scanned the ID and immediately turned white as a ghost.
He called another bouncer over, who also scanned the ID and looked at Alyssa in pure shock. They stated that her ID showed she was deceased. At this point, her entire friend group was silent. They knew they would not be getting into the bar.
Alyssa laughed nervously, snatched the ID out of the bouncer’s hand, and made a run for it. Her friends sprinted after her to the nearest bar that didn’t scan IDs.
“We got right in and never went back to that place,” said Alyssa. “However, I do think about those bouncers sometimes. I wonder what they thought of me in that situation.”
“I know it gave my sister a good laugh in heaven if she wasn’t the one who put it together herself. Moral of the story: if you’re using your sister’s ID and she dies, don’t use it anymore.”
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In the comments section, several TikTok users shared their own stories about using other people’s IDs.
“Omg, girl, you’re so lucky you were able to grab your ID back. When I was 22, I moved back home to New Hampshire, and I still had my South Carolina ID for a little bit. The bouncers were sooo crazy about it. Wouldn’t believe me, even though I could answer every question they asked about it. They would bend it to the point it got a crease, and the only time they’d give it back to me was when we flagged down a police officer to scan it,” commented one user.
“[My mom and I] were so twinned up that I used her ID from when she was 40 while I was like 17,” wrote another.
“I used my sister’s ID. Mind you, we’re seven years apart, and my friends used it, too,” added a third.
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