Is This Legal?
Getting free or discounted items is always nice, but if the only way you can get them is by lying or supporting someone else’s lie, we’re going to take a stand and say you shouldn’t do it, if only for legal reasons.
We’re not sure how much legal trouble you’d get into for claiming to be a first responder when you aren’t, but it seems like something you’d get in a lot of trouble for, so stay away from it just to be safe.
Faking Your Age
Speaking of people lying in online environments where the truth is difficult to verify, this guy also lied in World of Warcraft, though he claimed to be older rather than a different gender. After all, you can’t be cool online if you’re only 12.
So, to be cool, you have to make yourself older online. Then you find yourself in a situation where you don’t know how to tell all of your friends that you’re actually younger than they are. You could just chalk it up to a particularly long-winded prank, we suppose.