Bureaucracy Shall Always Have The Last Laugh!

And from Germany again comes a crazy tale of freedom of expression having gone berserk. Alexander Mechthold, of Arnsberg, Germany, applied for a passport and, along with the application, gave photos of his in which he was sticking out his tongue. When the officials rejected his application on obvious grounds, he went to a Court. And the Court has held that there is no law, which prohibits Germans from sticking out their tongues in the passport photo, and so Alexander Mechthold cannot be denied a passport for this reason. The Passport Office has now granted him the passport, but only after he signed a written undertaking that he accepted full responsibility for any trouble he may encounter with the border police guards.

S.M.Singru