NJ License Photos: No Smiling and No Wearing a Pasta Strainer on Your Head
An Egg Harbor Township 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 an Egg Harbor Township man 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. Aaron Williams, 24, 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 …
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Bill Vowteras
6:55 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Well at least he didn't put too much strain on the system more ›