The Bobby Hill toy ID card that will get you booze anytime and at anyplace (in the UK anyway)!
I meant to write about this extremely important expose when I read about it at the esteemed literary journal The Daily Mail last week, but since I have the memory of a plastic toy ID card, I completely forgot about it until I was carded a couple of nights ago while buying beer from the deli. At that moment, I wish I had a Bobby Hill toy ID card to show the deli dude, because I hate showing my drivers license since in the picture I look like a middle-aged South American woman who got the Tootsie cut in the 80s and hasn’t ever changed it. That isn’t the point, though. The point is that if you’re underage and thirsty for the sweet nectar, don’t bother trying to buy a fake ID on the Internet or beg your older sister’s friend to give you her old one, because all you need to do is get yourself one of these Bobby Hill ID cards.
The Nottingham County Council in the UK sent a 17-year-old into 22 shops in Nottingham to buy booze using either no ID or an ID card with the face of Bobby from King of the Hill on it. More than half of the 22 shops never asked
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