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Fakest Fake I.D.

Yeah fake as hell, BUT.

A private person can "confiscate" someone else's property, without process?


Well, what's the kid with the fake I.D. going to do about it?
Call the cops and file a complaint?

It may in fact be legal to seize someone's property if it is evidence in a crime and you intend to turn it over to the police for that purpose.
Just because the bartender may have copied that ID or taken a photo of it before giving it to the cops, that doesn't mean he never turned it over to police.

If police were not involved and it's just a private citizen-on-citizen encounter, that brings us back to: "What are you going to do about it-- call the cops?"
 
Well, what's the kid with the fake I.D. going to do about it?
Call the cops and file a complaint?

It may in fact be legal to seize someone's property if it is evidence in a crime and you intend to turn it over to the police for that purpose.
Just because the bartender may have copied that ID or taken a photo of it before giving it to the cops, that doesn't mean he never turned it over to police.

If police were not involved and it's just a private citizen-on-citizen encounter, that brings us back to: "What are you going to do about it-- call the cops?"
It's about right or wrong, and at what level would you say it's not right.
Yeah in real life the person has little recourse, but I think it show a character flaw that he would "confiscate" someone's property. Whether or not he might get in trouble.
I'm not supporting the underage either, both are in the wrong.
 
If you caught a teenage kid from your neighborhood trying to pick the lock on your tool shed with a professional lock-picking set (worth $50), would you consider just confiscating the lock pick set and letting the kid go with a warning? No harm done to you, but the kid loses his burglary tools which have no legitimate purpose for somebody like him-- they're just for committing crimes. Would that show lack of character on your part to do this?

How about if you saw a teen spray painting graffiti on the side of a warehouse? Could you confiscate his spray can as an alternative to a citizen's arrest and prosecution in the courts later? Is that morally wrong?
 
If you caught a teenage kid from your neighborhood trying to pick the lock on your tool shed with a professional lock-picking set (worth $50), would you consider just confiscating the lock pick set and letting the kid go with a warning? No harm done to you, but the kid loses his burglary tools which have no legitimate purpose for somebody like him-- they're just for committing crimes. Would that show lack of character on your part to do this?

How about if you saw a teen spray painting graffiti on the side of a warehouse? Could you confiscate his spray can as an alternative to a citizen's arrest and prosecution in the courts later? Is that morally wrong?
I would call the parents. But I would not take his stuff for my own. Might leave it for the LE but not to keep as my own.
 
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