Earle Martin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:48:56AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > > You don't carry any ID on you at times? What > > happens if you get hit by a bus and you're alone? How do you expect your > > body will be identified? > > My debit cards? Business card? Piece of paper in my wallet that states my > name, address and telephone number? (Yes, I have one.) There are plenty of > things you can identify yourself with, and none of them need to be > mandatory.
I always have in my wallet an official and signed statement asserting that I authorize hospitals to take my organs off my dead body and use them without bothering asking my family. As a side-effect, it identifies me. > > Getting fussy over having to carry an ID card, much like your health card > > and your Tesco card and your bank card and your credit cards...work on a > > more credible argument :) > > Can you be arrested for not carrying any of those? Can a policeman stop you > in the street because he/she doesn't like the look of you and _require_ you > to produce them, with the full force of the law behind him/her? I think > you'll find that the answer is no. I remember six or seven years ago, there was that G7 summit in Lyon. My flat was 50 meters next to the Hotel de Ville were all presidents and ministers were awaited. At each and every corner, policemen and soldiers were asking people for papers. I had to prove I was living in this street to be actually able to walk in it.
