NJ License Photos: No Smiling and No Wearing a Pasta Strainer on Your Head
An Egg Harbor man's choice of head gear brought South Brunswick Police to the Motor Vehicle Commission office.
The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission banned smiles in driver's license photos last year, but apparently imposed no restriction on cooking utensils worn as religious head gear. At least, that's how Aaron Williams saw it. At about noon on Feb. 2, South Brunswick Police responded to the MVC facility on Route 130 in Dayton on reports that a man renewing his driver's license refused to remove the pasta strainer he was wearing on his head for his license photo, according to a police report. Williams, 25, of Egg Harbor Township, said the strainer is a religious head covering and he had a right to wear it for the photo. Williams said he practices Pastafarianism, which was created in 2005 in response to a hearing in the Kansas State Board of …
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mr2
12:23 am on Friday, March 29, 2013
Other religious headgear (like Hijab, Turban, etc) is making a mockery of Canadian born religions!!! This is not Canada, this is foreign countrys exported to Canada to make the almighty million!!!!!!! I AM NOT PREJUDICE in the least but I do not agree with ppl coming to our country and saying, "You are not being fare to us, let us practice our own religion and live by our own rules, in our own … more ›