Teenagers are dressing up as elderly people in face masks to fool shops into selling them alcohol
From 24 July, face masks will have to be worn in shops in the UK, with one Tory MP calling it a ‘monstrous imposition’. Similar rules have already been put in place across the United States, which has led to all sorts of disagreements and even threats towards staff.
However, one group of people are using this to their advantage.
Yet some are taking this opportunity the extreme by sporting wigs, glasses and headscarves in the hope that it will fool the unsuspecting clerk.
Some of these videos have already amassed more than two million views on TikTok and from the few that have gone viral, their efforts to purchase alcohol appear to have been successful, proving that shopkeepers aren’t asking the teenagers to show their faces that are being covered by the masks.
Whether this trend will cross the pond when the mask laws are enforced in the UK remains to be seen but purchasing alcohol under the required age is illegal so please don’t do it.
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