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The next story comes from Australia, where a self-described pastafarian went about mocking the rules set up for firearm ID pictures by wearing a colander on his head. Guy Albon convinced the photographer that he was a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster so that he could wear the colander - a symbol of the satirical religious movement whose members refer to themselves as Pastafarians. The 30-year-old said he exploited a law that allows headgear to be worn in photos.
'The law stipulates you can have something on your head,' he said. 'You have to have your entire face uncovered and if the headgear is being worn it has to have some religious significance. I thought 'I've got this one in the bag - it was an absolute scream.'
Officers came to his home, where they seized two handguns and two rifles and ordered him to see a psychiatrist. According to Mr Albon, the psychiatrist immediately declared him as sane and 'laughed it off'.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 27 2014, @07:47PM
While I kind of see where you are going with your posts, that actually believing in something and making a mockery out of believing in something, I think you are kind of missing the point of being a pastafarian, which i believe to be to highlight the problem of taking a persons irrational beliefs seriously. If you look at it rationally a religious belief backed up by pretty much nothing else than heresay it's kind of hard to distinguish from the ramblings of a lunatic. Have you ever read the book of revelations? I have and I think that it's extremely troubling that the madness of a probably schizophrenic man are taken seriously to this day, back in the day a lot of people were easily swayed due to limited exposure to ideas, but in this day and age there is almost no excuse.