As a self-respecting Australian, Ardyn Majere isn’t given to frequent visits to the Outback Steakhouse.
But when a gal wants beer and a steak, a gal wants beer and a steak.
So Majere and her spouse decided to throw principle to the wind and head to the Outback on Laguna. Halfway though her beer order, however, she realized she’d left her California ID card at home.
And after checking with her boss, the waitress said she couldn’t accept the work authorization card Majere offered instead.
Turns out that California is quite strict about which forms of ID it considers legitimate. Rather than list acceptable forms, the state Alcoholic Beverage Control offers a list of requirements: namely, your name, date of birth, picture and – here’s the kicker – a physical description.
Even U.S. passports don’t list your height and weight, nor do a host of other documents that leave tourists and residents alike in the lurch.
“That’s what probably causes the most frustration,” said Matt Seck, ABC’s chief of trade enforcement. “People call and say ‘You’re telling me that I can use my passport to get past homeland security but I can’t get a drink at a bar?’”
Not even, it turns out, at the Outback Steakhouse.
“I thought it was the most hilarious thing I’d ever heard,” Majere, 24, said in an email. “Aussies can’t drink at Outback. What a world.”
Spaz the cat may just be the only creature alive to opt out of a move to Hawaii.
He and his owners were on their way to the Aloha State from North Carolina awhile back when he escaped from a hotel room. He somehow made his way to a Sacramento feral cat colony, where he was picked up recently by the Sacramento SPCA during one of its routine spay/neuter clinics.

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