Originally Posted by
KoKoBuddy
Someone shows a bouncer a passport from Kerplakistan, he has no clue is it's real or not or what it says. Bouncer says, no I can't accept this. The next day bar gets sued for violating the civil rights of the Kerplakistani citizen.
To avoid all this, you put a blanket no passports accepted as ID, including American ones.
Exactly. No furriners, we don't want yer kind here. Only the Americans can thus enter the bar, or at least the ones who drive and have a license with them. There are even anecdotes about places that go even farther: no one from out-of-state allowed.
I'd love to be able to say this stuff only happens in <insert whatever state you think is the most ignorant and backwards here>, but it seems to happen even in places like CA and NY.