Archive for July 1st, 2007
Holographic ID cards
I was sitting here thinking earlier about ID cards with pictures on them, such as drivers licenses. Almost everybody I’ve ever known tends to complain “My picture is ugly” or “My eyes were closed” or “My picture makes me look like a rabid goat with herpes”; rarely any good comments about the pictures. That’s when I came up with the idea of holographic ID cards.
So lets take how this would work with a Drivers Licensee: The base picture would be a good looking picture of the person (it might take some work, but would be worth it). The 2nd part of the holographic image would be of them completely smashed, drunk out of their mind. The third image would be them with fake blood and such on their face so it looks like they went through a windshield. see where this is going?
So lets say Joe Blow needs to show the ID to buy some beers at the bar, the bartender would look at the good looking picture and see it matches. So they drink the beers and hop in their car and get pulled over: the cop takes the ID turns it to see the drunk picture and can tell right away they’re completely out of it. So he writes them a ticket but lets him go since it’s the first time and tells the sober friend to drive. So the friend jumps in the driver’s seat and starts booting it down the road at 120 km/h and runs right into the back of a minivan and flies through the windshield. No problem, now all they have to do is turn the ID to the last position and see if the shredded face matches the one lying in a bloody mess in the ditch.
And that’s why we need holographic ID cards.
