Son’s doodle on dad Chen’s passport leaves Chinese man stranded in South Korea

[Hellhammer]

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[b]A CHINESE man is stuck in South Korea after his four-year-old son doodled all over his passport, leaving him unable to fly home with his family.[/b]
The budding artist took to his father’s passport with a black felt tip pen, making his dad’s eyes and lips bigger and drawing extra facial hair all over his head.
The boy also drew some animals, a few additional people and some flowers.
The man — whose name is only given as Chen — tried to board his flight back to China from South Korea but was stopped by security.
His family is believed to have flown home but Chen is still stranded in South Korea, forcing him to take to Chinese social networking site Weibo to try and find a solution.
This dad “can’t return to the country,” a May 16 Weibo post reads. “What is [he] to do? Please help.”
So far no solutions have presented themselves. While the four-year-old shows some talent for drawing, we suspect that this artwork is not going straight to the fridge door when his dad eventually gets back to China.[/QUOTE]
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[MR2]

It's sad that in this modern, digital day and age, a few doodles over a document can make it invalid.

[outlawpickle]

[QUOTE=MR2;44978235]It's sad that in this modern, digital day and age, a few doodles over a document can make it invalid.[/QUOTE]

In the US you don't even need an ID to travel, they can verify your identity through the Identity Verification Call Center (IVCC) and you'll get additional screening, but you can still fly without an ID.

Not sure if this would be considered tampering or not, though I'm sure law enforcement would put 2 and 2 together and if they could clear this man's identity through other means he could probably fly. If you could still see the UV images on the passport, that would prove it was a valid ID and you could still cross reference the information you could see, it looks like the information such as his name, birth date and expiration date are all still legible on the bottom in the <<<< section.

[pentium]

Passports contain magnetic ink and border security can access an online copy for verification however the passport is still an official document much like a drivers license or birth certificate. Deface it and you void it.