Michael Cash <buggeroff@fake.com> wrote in message news:<nb8h50p2olhk4qb20ak62anvme0fsgnpi9@4ax.com>...
> On 17 Mar 2004 10:35:05 -0800, worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) brought
> down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> 
> >tokyoelbow@totalise.co.uk (Elbow) wrote in message news:<515ab8e4.0403162302.6580c3f3@posting.google.com>...
> >> Is this legal?  Anyone else had similar shit happen to
> >> them?  
> >> 
> >> Would appreciate some comments or just plain old
> >> ranting  (insert horse).
> >> 
> >As others have pointed out you actually got lucky. Because it was your
> >birthday perhaps it's a bit blown out of proportion; but you have no
> >legal reason to gripe. I suggest putting your ID card in your wallet
> >and carry it with you at all times, as the law says you need to do.
> >
> >And yes, it's happened to me. But I had my ID card.
> 
> I think in three trips to Japan, I have been asked for my card
> precisely one time...and even that is only a very very vague
> recollection. So vague that I'm not even sure it actually happened.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Michael Cash
> 
> "I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
> a high school transcript."
> 
>                            Dr. Howard Sprague
>                            Dean of Admissions
>                            Mount Pilot College

Michael Cash <buggeroff@fake.com> wrote in message news:<nb8h50p2olhk4qb20ak62anvme0fsgnpi9@4ax.com>...
> On 17 Mar 2004 10:35:05 -0800, worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) brought
> down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> 
> >tokyoelbow@totalise.co.uk (Elbow) wrote in message news:<515ab8e4.0403162302.6580c3f3@posting.google.com>...
> >> Is this legal?  Anyone else had similar shit happen to
> >> them?  
> >> 
> >> Would appreciate some comments or just plain old
> >> ranting  (insert horse).
> >> 
> >As others have pointed out you actually got lucky. Because it was your
> >birthday perhaps it's a bit blown out of proportion; but you have no
> >legal reason to gripe. I suggest putting your ID card in your wallet
> >and carry it with you at all times, as the law says you need to do.
> >
> >And yes, it's happened to me. But I had my ID card.
> 
> I think in three trips to Japan, I have been asked for my card
> precisely one time...and even that is only a very very vague
> recollection. So vague that I'm not even sure it actually happened.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Michael Cash
> 
> "I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap sheet in lieu of
> a high school transcript."
> 
>                            Dr. Howard Sprague
>                            Dean of Admissions
>                            Mount Pilot College

Michael Cash <buggeroff@fake.com> wrote in message news:<nb8h50p2olhk4qb20ak62anvme0fsgnpi9@4ax.com>...
> On 17 Mar 2004 10:35:05 -0800, worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) brought
> down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
> 
> >tokyoelbow@totalise.co.uk (Elbow) wrote in message news:<515ab8e4.0403162302.6580c3f3@posting.google.com>...
> >> Is this legal?  Anyone else had similar shit happen to
> >> them?  
> >> 
> >> Would appreciate some comments or just plain old
> >> ranting  (insert horse).
> >> 
> >As others have pointed out you actually got lucky. Because it was your
> >birthday perhaps it's a bit blown out of proportion; but you have no
> >legal reason to gripe. I suggest putting your ID card in your wallet
> >and carry it with you at all times, as the law says you need to do.
> >
> >And yes, it's happened to me. But I had my ID card.
> 
> I think in three trips to Japan, I have been asked for my card
> precisely one time...and even that is only a very very vague
> recollection. So vague that I'm not even sure it actually happened.
> 
Happened to me twice, actually. Once in Osaka (or maybe Kobe; memory's
fuzzy) late at night coming home after a class. The guy was very nice
about it, seemed almost shy about asking me, actually. The first time,
though, was when I first arrived in Japan the first time; an officer
came up to me in the parking lot of Narita airport as I was getting
into my friend's car. He had to go to some effort to get to me,
actually. I was impressed. In retrospect it would have been
interesting had he made a big deal out of it, since my friend is/was a
reporter for Fuji News.

John W.