When I was about 14, my friends and I used to play this game. It didn’t have a name, but in court it would probably get the legal moniker of “Impersonating a Badge Checker.” We would wear a plain white T-shirt and ask people at random if they had their beach badge.
It started as a way to start a conversation with a blanket full of girls. At some point, a tourist gave us an attitude about not having a badge, and we asked him to leave the beach. Luckily we never got pounded.
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