Originally Posted by CKA1

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On that topic, is it possible to board a domestic flight without any ID except maybe a letter saying why I don't have ID? I've heard you can board with a police report, but I've never actually seen it done. I traveled in my undergrad with a large group of people and one of the girls thought she had lost her wallet at a nightclub. We pieced things together and retrieved her wallet, but what would somebody do? Another guy in the same group left his wallet in a cab. We tracked it down with the aid of some people at the conference site, and he was okay, but I don't know what one would do?