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- From: cah@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ceri Hopkins)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Young Persons Railcard
- Message-ID: <CAH.93Jan21170507@fat-controller.cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:05:07 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: benha@castle.ed.ac.uk's message of 20 Jan 93 18:01:43 GMT
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- >>>>> On 20 Jan 93 18:01:43 GMT, benha@castle.ed.ac.uk (Ben Hambidge) said:
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- Ben> A friend sent off for one while he was at school, with an
- Ben> official letter from the headmaster saying he was at school with
- Ben> his dat of birth on it. My friend filled out the application with
- Ben> his DoB a year before it should have been, and sent it off.
- Ben> No-one at ISIC noticed trhe discrepancy, and he used it as over
- Ben> 18 age proof. Genuine card though.
-
- It is also possible to alter the card after receiving it. Depending on
- year of birth and the handwriting of the person who completed the card
- it can *slash* years off your age.
-
- The example I'm thinking about is someone using an ISIC card to claim
- to be under 26 and a student to get cheap rail tickets in France.
- Person in question was miffed about being a student and still not
- being able to get cheap fares.
-
- My experience in Germany a number of years ago was that you would have
- to convince people of the validity of the ISIC card as indication of
- student status. An NUS card and the same spiel worked just as well,
- making the ISIC card worthless.
-
- Ceri
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