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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/pastafarian-loses-drivers-license-after-refusing-to-remove-spaghetti-strainer-headwear/Pastafarian loses drivers license after refusing to remove spaghetti strainer headwear
David Edwards
09 Oct 2014
A Canadian man who practices the Pastafarian religion lost his drivers license last week, and is being required to take a religious spaghetti strainer off of his head before he can get a new one.
Surrey, B.C. resident Obi Canuel told the National Post that he became a Pastafarian before obtaining a drivers license wearing the colander last year. But officials with the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia later determined that the photo could not be used for his license.
Canuel had been using a paper interim license while fighting for his right to wear the headgear, but officials told him last week that the interim license would not be renewed.
So-called Pastafarians say that they believe that the world was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The mock religion was created in 2005 to protest the Kansas School Boards decision to teach intelligent design. Pastafarians have obtained drivers licenses wearing spaghetti strainers in several U.S. states, but Canuel would have been the first B.C. resident to do so.
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‘Pastafarian’ loses driver’s license after refusing to remove spaghetti strainer headwear (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Oct 2014
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DetlefK
(16,423 posts)1. The "religious-rights"-crowd will rush to his defence any minute now.
demwing
(16,916 posts)2. And that's bad because...?
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)3. That was sarcasm.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,838 posts)4. I'd say his story strains credulity.
ellenfl
(8,660 posts)5. it would be more believable if the colander on his head had holes. just sayin'. eom