Gadling

So this wasn't a troll? I mean, if I were to run a blog and wrote, "hey, this happened to a friend of mine..." I'd be mocked because it tosses any notion of objectivity out the window. Normally I like your articles but was like "holy crap."

There could have been a few possibilities:
1) Some overzealous or stupid security person didn't recognize it, and denied him admittance. It happens. I mean, would your average person be able to tell a French drivers license from a Dutch drivers license? Better yet, how could you know if it's legit or not?

2) The casino has an official policy for only allowing certain forms of IDs. It's possible.

And your friend's bf could have said "hey, I'm staying in room , my ID's upstairs." Or he could have asked to see a manager...

In the time it took you to write this post, you could have called the Casino and asked what their official policy was and then said, hey, I'm calling on behalf of so-and-so and they were denied entry because of a foreign drivers license - that would have made for a better article because it's like you're an investigative journalist or something! Two years ago in Auckland, I went to the Casino at Sky City and tried getting in with my Illinois DL and was refused. Went back to the hotel, got my passport - problem solved.

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