Pasta strainers are now considered suitable religious headgear in Austria, at least as far as the transport authorities are concerned.
Three years after applying for a new driver’s licence, an Austrian man has finally received the laminated card. And the picture shows him sporting an upturned colander on his head.
Niko Alm, an entrepreneur, said he had the idea when he read that headgear was allowed in official pictures only for “confessional” reasons.
The atheist says he belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a light-hearted “faith” whose members call themselves Pastafarians and whose “only dogma… is the rejection of dogma,” according to its website. – Sapa-AFP