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April 03, 2005
Old School Vending with ID Check
I was in this shady onsen (hot springs) town in Nagano, and I found this vending machine for alcohol out on the street. Have any of you guys ever seen one of these before?
There are vending machines which sell beer all over the place in Japan, but this machine is a little out of the ordinary. This machine actually requires you to enter your ID and verify your age before you can get your Asahi Super Dry, or Sapporo Ichiban. Even has Chu-Hai! Yum. Kinda cool huh? I wonder if this would be able to read Gaijin ID Cards too...
The weird thing is, I have never seen a machine which checks for ID before. All of the other alcohol vending machines I have seen will vend to anyone who puts a coin in the slot. Another weird thing is that this vending machine looks very old. It's as if a long time ago, they were using machines with this ID check feature, but the idea flopped so they gave up. I'm not sure about this though... If anyone knows let me know! -Harvey Posted by Harvey at April 03, 2005 12:12 PMComments
We had one of these machines near my host family's house, and that was back in 2001. So they're at least that old. Posted by: Liam McNulty on April 3, 2005 03:11 PMWhat kind of I.D. does it take? Specialy issued Beer Vending Machine I.D.? Posted by: Eric Kosinski on April 3, 2005 10:39 PMoops. I see it says 運転免許書 now. I didn't know that Japanese drivers licenses had magnetic data on them. I should ask my law prof if there has ever been a case against the beer vending machine corp for negligently selling to minors where the minor gets into an acident etc. If this was the US, I'd give it 5-10 seconds before such a case was filed. Posted by: Eric Kosinski on April 3, 2005 10:45 PMUnless someone is watching the machine, any younger teenage could use his older brother/sister licenses to buy a few beers for him and his friends. Can you still buy beer late at night yet? I saw one of these a few years back, not that I needed a beer from a vending machine. infant sleep life insurance Comment?
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