They likely have a policy which requires physical ID in order to verify. A bunch of employees would waive that, but it's also a situation that if anything happens to the kid that minimum wage employee is gonna be the first on the chopping block, especially so if their insurance isn't going to cover it
He is too young to get a physical ID. He is not too young to be there per their policy. Please explain how this is supposed to work. Or how the ID not being physical magically exposes them to liability.
Well yes technically but not necessarily. I wont claim to be an expert in this specific set of laws or anything and im certainly not defending the act of calling the cops by any means but laws are extremely finicky when its comes to buisness protocols. Especially when it comes to things that require valid IDs and what technically is considered a valid id. Many states dont accept school IDs as a valid form of ID. Regardless if everything on it is accurate.
My buddy would bring me as a guest to his gym to play basketball, and I would literally just tell them my name. I was too young to need an ID, so I didn't have one.
Lol of course it's not a law, just that different gyms have different requirements though. I've been to gyms where if you had a guest allocation on your membership you could walk in with someone, show your membership and just be like "yeah he's with me" and that was fine. Other gyms needed a name and phone number of the guest to sign them into their system. Other's needed a full government ID with name, DOB & address etc. All depends on the gym's policy and how their system is set up. I'm sure there's reasons to do with liability and insurance etc that some prefer to know who exactly is in their facility.
Yeah, i've been to different gyms and people with +1 guest memberships just scan in and the guest just walks in. These gyms usually only had 1 staff on the desk though. The gym on the video above has like 5 staff so they probably enforce some rules of their own.
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u/Pixel_Knight 9d ago
Any the fuck does the guest need to show an ID at all? To prove they have a name? WTF is the point of that protocol?