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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/20/police-called-after-man-refuses-to-remove-pasta-strainer-from-head/Police called to DMV after man refuses to remove pasta strainer from head
By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 17:18 EST
A Motor Vehicle Commission office in New Jersey called the police on a man who refused to remove a pasta strainer from his head while having his drivers license photo taken.
Aaron Williams, 25, said his pasta strainer was a religious head covering and that he had a right to wear it, according to a South Brunswick Police Department report obtained by The Smoking Gun.
Police informed Williams that a pasta strainer was not approved by the MVC and convinced him to take the photo without it. The incident occurred on February 2.
Williams told Patch on Tuesday that he was a devout Pastafarian and was merely showing his allegiance to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by wearing the pasta strainer. The parody religion took off in 2005, after Bobby Henderson mocked the Kansas Board of Education in an open letter for allowing the teaching of Intelligent Design in public schools.
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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)pasta strainer. One wonders if it comes in other colors as well?
tclambert
(11,087 posts)mistaking it for some other religion's head covering.
surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)It looks to be a vintage strainer from the 1970s. This man clearly enjoys his antiques.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)bit bigger. although probably just about as greasy when dry
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Tunkamerica
(4,444 posts)erronis
(15,324 posts)To look like hair! Wonder what type of sauce he uses...
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)That's not fair!!!
SpartanDem
(4,533 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)The daily news is satire live!
Oh how I wish this becomes a court case that ends up before SCOTUS eventually.
trusty elf
(7,398 posts)"Williams is not the first Pastafarian to claim the right to wear a pasta strainer on his head. Austria allowed entrepreneur Niko Alm to wear a pasta strainer in his drivers license photo last year, after officials requested the Pastafarian show he was psychologically fit to drive."
'Murca, land of the free. :-/
Rhiannon12866
(205,776 posts)datasuspect
(26,591 posts)inshpasta!
MrYikes
(720 posts)what harm was there, why was he forced by a lawman with a gun to submit to some bureaucratic bullying, where is the freedom in this?
This is so wrong on many levels.
Oops, I'm sorry, I just noticed it was a plastic stainer,,well that can not be allowed.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)If the person has any of the rare metal allergies. It's in the revised fourth Book of Parmesan (New Interstate Trucker's Edition, Harvard Translation).
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)I am off to buy a new strainer. I think I am going for collapsible one this time:
http://www.josephjoseph.com/colanders-and-strainers/folding-colander
I really fancy the green one, just in time for spring!
Blessed be all pasta makers!
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)formercia
(18,479 posts)Ramen
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Actually, it would look better over his face.
Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)progressoid
(49,992 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Legitimate testing of the laws - the regulation that you can keep religious headgear as an exception to the law against no headgear - that makes actual sense.
And on what ground did they call the police? They could refuse to process his license, but calling the cops seems OTT.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)The DMV apparently keeps a list of tax-exempt, state registered religions. Which is much crazier than wearing a pasta strainer.
Someday, when the Grim Waiter comes for them, they'll be sorry for not acquiescing to the demands of His Noodly Faithful.
greiner3
(5,214 posts)After I read the article.
However, all my strainers are of the metallic type; stainless steel and aluminum.
Now THAT would have brought out the guys in the white suits!
d_r
(6,907 posts)their does not have to e an "approval" by the MVC -
"In 2003, a memorandum reminded employees that "applicants who obtain photo driver licenses or ID cards are not required to remove religious or ethnic head and/or facial coverings. Also, the Division no longer requires that the applicants certify to the necessity of the coverings. Three weeks later another memorandum was issued disallowing the issuance of driver licenses to applicants wearing facial coverings of any kind."
Head gear is allowed, facial covering is not, and there is no requirement to certify the necessity.
see http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/LWVJ.pdf
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Chalco
(1,308 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)if they allowed every religion in schools I'd have no problem with him wearing that had. Because I do wish that the state would stay out of religion. Seperation of church and state should be there so the state becomes involved in religion. If one needs a hall of religion then there should be one. For everyone who wants one included. Hopefully via how popular one is though. Like in the size of icons. Think the above would count as other. I'm guessing there's more Jainism folks out there. (ahem where using the swastika is totally legal)
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Taken at the moment of Creation. Complete Truth spoken here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x987724 Ramen!
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,189 posts)Glad to see other states trying to compete with us.
idwiyo
(5,113 posts)Can you present any evidence that His Holy Noodliness doesn't exist?
I can prove his existence very easily:
A) spaghetti exist
B) meatballs exist
Therefore He exists too.
It's that easy, really.
Ramen!
PD Turk
(1,289 posts)Since when do bureaucrats get to decide which religions are approved and which aren't? And was it really necessary to call in armed jackboots to bully him?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Absolutely!!!!!!
The rapidly increasing efforts to stamp out ANY form of protest and/or non-conformist behavior is a key element of control in this country.Tis meant to warn others not to do the same.
PD Turk
(1,289 posts)I've been a non conformist most of my life, and now I'm too old and stubborn to change that
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)Obviously they haven't thought of the potential consequences of concentrating our influence.
Obey. Conform. Buy.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Now that schools and tv and radio and what is left of newspapers have all been dumbed down enough,
soon as us boomers shuffle off, the rest of the Constitution can be shredded, and "no one will notice, no one will care"
as Carlin said.
hunter
(38,322 posts)Our police show up reliably when someone is dead, shot, raped, beaten, bleeding profusely, or on fire. Sometimes it seems like robbery, domestic abuse, and disturbing the peace calls must pass some threshold of urgency.
Anything non-violent is handled by unarmed and non-confrontational community service officers and clerks.
If it's a property crime or a non-injury car accident they'll tell you to file a report on their web site or come down to the station. Waiting in the station to file a report or to turn in found property is always a trip. I've overheard some interesting stories there.
I'm just surprised the police would show up for something like this. A guy wearing a pasta strainer on his head at our DMV would probably be disappointed that nobody cared enough to ask him why.