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Old Feb 26, 2006 | 10:56 pm
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
True. Still, a state-issued DL and birth certificate was more than sufficient for Americans to visit several countries in North America. A lot of countries in the US neighborhood benefited tremendously from making it easy for Americans to visit without a passport.
I was recently pulled over in Germany on a routine traffic stop that checked if my rental car (BMW X5, quite popular with thieves close to the Austrian border) happened to be stolen. So I wanted to give it a try and showed the cop my California DL. He had a good laugh - and then wanted to see some real ID.
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