Austrian Driver Allowed “Pastafarian” Headgear Photo – (BBC News – July 14, 2011)<\/a>
\nAn Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-license photo wearing a pasta strainer as “religious headgear”. Niko Alm first applied for the license after reading that headgear was allowed in official pictures only for confessional reasons (as a matter of “confessing one’s faith”). The idea came into Mr. Alm’s noodle three years ago as a way of making a serious, if ironic, point. Mr. Alm said the sieve was a requirement of his religion, Pastafarianism. A self-confessed atheist, Mr. Alm says he belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a light-hearted, US-based faith whose members call themselves Pastafarians. After receiving his application, the Austrian authorities required him to obtain a doctor’s certificate that he was “psychologically fit” to drive.<\/p>\n
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