hey, at least you can see his face... 
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.
hey, at least you can see his face...
That’s a puzzler for the ol’ noodle. Let’s not strain ourselves pasta our breaking point.
Well, it is easier to tie a chinstrap to the spaghetti strainer’s handles, but I think those little holes in it compromise its value as a Faraday cage to protect your brain from the mind control waves.
Well, modern America seems to have a rather large number of solipsistic attention whores and this guy is just one of many. Let’s see what happens when he walks near high tension lines.
This isn’t satire. Pastafarians are a real thing and they win real court cases like this!
I liked the “free pony” platform, but then I heard we would get in trouble if the police caught us without a pony.
That’s crossing the line, he lost me!
Well, he does seem to take good care of that boot. I don’t see a bunch of scuff marks, so he has that going for him.
Kind of think the ‘Big Guy’ is giving us a rerun of the “Fall of the Roman Empire”....
If one didn’t believe the Book, movie or stage play, maybe one needs to ‘live’ it in real time.
Thanks! Though I’m thinking that Flatt and Skruggs did it originally.
Nope! You are right - it was the announcer playing the straight guy.
Seems to me that, in at least some of these cases, they're simply doing it to mock the muslim burka thing.
"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."
Muslim woman in Florida refused to remove her veil for her Drivers License photo
Using their lord’s name in strain?
Retards are a real thing, too ...
Actual retards, of course, aren't to be blamed. They can't help it. "Pastafarians" have none to blame but themselves.
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