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Input: And here’s a weird one. In Austria, a man named Niko Alm has gotten a license he first applied for three years ago. Why did it take so long? Well, Alm asked to be photographed wearing a pasta strainer on his head. The reason? His religion requires it. 
  
 Well, his anti-religion religion. Alm is a Pastafarian, which is a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Sound ridiculous? It’s meant to be. Besides, as a Pastafarian would point out, your magic space man isn’t so realistic either. 
  
 The Church has its origins in a letter written in 2005 by Bobby Henderson, a 24-year-old who wrote an open letter to the Kansas State Board of Education regarding their plans to begin teaching Intelligent Design in addition to the “theory” of evolution. In his satirical letter, he concurred and argued that his belief, that a “flying spaghetti monster” created the universe, should be taught as well, arguing that “we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world.” 
  
 The letter became an Internet phenomenon and soon, an entire ironic “religion” had been created based around Henderson’s jokey “belief.” 
  
 Which brings us back to Alm. Alm, an Atheist, saw that Austrian law allowed headgear in license photos only if it was for religious purposes. He set about making his own satirical point by asking to wear a pasta strainer to represent his Pastafarianism. The authorities responded by requiring he seek a medical evaluation to prove he was “mentally fit” to drive. However, he passed and now, three years later, his license is as you see it above. 
  
 The best part? Not only has Alm won a small victory for religious freedom everywhere (including the freedom to go without), he’ll forever win any bar conversation about who has the strangest photo on their license. 
  
 (h/t BBC via Ben Popken) 
  
 Have a tip we should know? tips@mediaite.com ||||| Image caption Having received his driving licence, Niko Alm now wants to get pastafarianism officially recognised 
  
 An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as "religious headgear". 
  
 Niko Alm first applied for the licence three years ago after reading that headgear was allowed in official pictures only for confessional reasons. 
  
 Mr Alm said the sieve was a requirement of his religion, pastafarianism. 
  
 Later a police spokesman explained that the licence was issued because Mr Alm's face was fully visible in the photo. 
  
 "The photo was not approved on religious grounds. The only criterion for photos in driving licence applications is that the whole face must be visible," said Manfred Reinthaler, a police spokesman in Vienna. 
  
 He was speaking on Wednesday, after Austrian media had first reported Mr Alm's reason for wearing the pasta strainer. 
  
 After receiving his application the Austrian authorities had required him to obtain a doctor's certificate that he was "psychologically fit" to drive. 
  
 According to Mr Reinthaler, "the licence has been ready since October 2009 - it was not collected, that's all there is to it". 
  
 The idea came into Mr Alm's noodle three years ago as a way of making a serious, if ironic, point. 
  
 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. 
  
 Image caption A medical interview established the self-styled "pastafarian" was mentally fit to drive 
  
 The group's website states that "the only dogma allowed in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the rejection of dogma". 
  
 In response to pressure for American schools to teach the theory known as intelligent design, which some Christians favour as an alternative to natural selection, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster wrote to the Kansas School Board asking for the pastafarian version of intelligent design to be taught to schoolchildren. 
  
 Straining credulity 
  
 In the same spirit, Mr Alm's pastafarian-style application for a driving licence was a response to the Austrian recognition of confessional headgear in official photographs. 
  
 The licence took three years to come through and, according to Mr Alm, he was asked to submit to a medical interview to check on his mental fitness to drive but - straining credulity - his efforts have finally paid off. 
  
 It is the police who issue driving licences in Austria, and they have duly issued a laminated card showing Mr Alm in his unorthodox item of religious headgear. 
  
 When asked for his reaction to Mr Reinthaler's comments, Mr Alm told the broadcaster ORF: "I didn't know I was guilty of not collecting it. That doesn't alter the fact that it still took nearly a year [to be issued]". 
  
 The next step, Mr Alm told the Austrian news agency APA, is to apply to the Austrian authorities for pastafarianism to become an officially recognised faith. ||||| Get Viral Tracking for Your Site 
  
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Output:
Hopefully his car never breaks down in a thunderstorm. An Austrian atheist has won the right to don a pasta strainer on his head in his driver's license photo, reports the BBC. Austrians are permitted to wear headgear in official photographs only for religious reasons, and Niko Alm claims the sieve is a symbol of his religion—pastafarianism. Alm claims to be a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster—a joke "religion" that began in the US in response to pressure on schools to teach intelligent design. (Mediaite has more background on it, and how the joke took off worldwide.) It took three years for Alm's license to be approved, pending the results of a medical interview stating he was "mentally fit" to drive. Click to see a photo of the unusual license.