AIr travel and lost ID

If you travel from City A to City B by air (in US). You don’t get a rental car in City B as you use their mass transit sytem. And you are mugged and relieved of your only photo ID, your state of city A’s Driver licencs. How do you get home?

You seem to need photo ID to fly and to rent a car (if you wanted to drive home). If you still have a CC, or your CC company can send you one you MAY be able to take amtrak if you use a ticket vending machine, by if you buy your ticket from a person they require a ID also.

So how does someone get home again? Is this why cities have so many homeless people as opposed to the 'burbs, sine they will at least hold on to the rental car and drive it home :wink:

No really, how do you get home?

You have a baby on your hip and fast talk the security guy at the Orlando airport, that’s what you do.

I speak from experience. Lady Chance lost her wallet while at Disney a couple of years ago and still managed to get on the plane.

We didn’t need ID to buy a Grayhound bus ticket as long as we purchased it at the station at the time of travel. Don’t know if the rules have changed in the past year though.

My wife lost her ID on the way to the airport over the summer (and while she was out of town). She was allowed to board the plane, but she had to go through the extra security screening.

I didn’t consider grayhound, at least there is hope. But this must have happened before in a way that a SOP exists. I want to know what to do (besides stealing a baby)

I’ve never needed to show any ID for Grayhound, either.

An alternative could feasibly be to call someone up home who’d have access to another form of photo ID of yours. If you were staying at a hotel, they may be able to either fax a copy of the ID, or send it express/priority/etc mail to you via the hotel.

This once happened to a fellow consultant back in 1996 or 1997. What he did was call his local police department, and they–somehow–got some sort of ID together for the guy that would satisfy the requirement. I don’t remember what it was, probably something on official letterhead, it was not a replacement drivers license or anything like that.

That being said, the prior posters are correct that one can be allowed on board the aircraft without such depending on circumstances/phase of the moon/their mood.

Going off-topic a little now, but I always carry my passport with me as a backup ID even int he states. Might not be a bad idea to have one just in case for situations like this, even if one does not contemplate leaving the country any time soon.

Also, none of the above will help one rent a car if the drivers license is lost going out on a trip. I would not recommend this, but some of my friends (not me) have “lost” their drivers licenses and gotten a duplicate issued. Then miraculously, the “lost” one is found and kept for emergencies. I think this is against the law if done deliberately, so I urge you never to do this!

An ID is not required, but you will be designated as a selectee, which means the TSA gets to rifle thru your bags while you are being hand wanded and pat down.

ahem

‘Greyhound’, people.

I love the dogs (indifferent about the buses).

I bet you would feel differtently if the bus got you home.

I know from second-hand experience that this is acceptable.

My girlfriend (although she wasn’t at the time) flew for a business trip to California, where she lost her identification. She called her work, which had a photocopy of her drivers license as part of her employee information. Her work faxed the photocopy to her hotel, and she was able to use that her identification to board the plane.