Posted on 02/15/2016 5:16:50 PM PST by BraveMan
MADISON -- A Madison man has won the right to wear a spaghetti strainer on his head in his driver's license photo.
The Department of Transportation has instructed all DMV offices to recognize colanders as religious headwear after receiving a letter from the man's lawyer.
Derek Allen says his client is a Pastafarian and was denied his religious right as a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster , first established in 2005.
"If you just hear about it in passing it sounds silly - someone wants to wear a spaghetti strainer in their driver's license," Allen says. "It's easy to brush off as something silly but I think the principal behind it is an important one."
Wisconsin is not alone. Pastafarians in other states including Utah, Texas, and Massachusetts have all been allowed to wear colanders in their ID photos.
The rest of the story is that the judge also said if he is ever caught driving without a spaghetti strainer on his head he will be arrested.
Pasta is religion! What a group of loons!
We are SOOOO screwed !
Spaghetti strainer is the new tinfoil hat, doncha know.
The problem is that if you are caught driving without the colander, you could be prosecuted for fraud and perjury.
You have to give a statement under penalty of perjury that the headwear is necessary for your religious worship.
If this clown gets pulled over without his colander on his head, he could face some serious jail time.
Be careful what you ask for. You may get it.
“Pasta is religion! What a group of loons!”
Yeah? How about those imbeciles who worshipped via hope and changey?
I read that. I loved the judge on that point.
Our culture has been destroyed. It is a reality show of feigned outrage, narcissism, and stupidity.
Guess he doesn’t put sauce on while pasta in colander.
There was a day when one would be able to ‘spot’ humor/satire but we are so fouled up that most have absolutely no problem believing it has come to this.
If you’re not wearing it, are you a Apastastate?
Another data point underlying the expression, “Madison: 77 square miles surrounded by reality.”
What kind of LOOK AT ME! non-adult goes to these lengths just so show what a good atheist/ religion-hater he is? THIS kind.
Just because you’ve never been
stroked by his noodley appendages
doesn’t mean he isn’t real!
Only if he was worshiping in the car at the time.
Groan.
That's BAD.
And good.
Thanks for the laugh.
I remember a Flatt and Scruggs number back from the 50’s . . . “That’s Good, no that’s bad!”
It was hilarious . . . and probably lost for all time.
Just think, for Madison, he is probably saner than most of the inhabitants!
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