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The Best Yearbook Photo Ever

It has lasers. It has a cat. It has the shadowy image of that cat hovering ethereally over him.

This is Draven Rodriguez and his cat, Mr. Bigglesworth. He's a senior at Schenectady High School in Schenectady, New York. Vincent Giordano took this amazing photo of him and his cat. Draven would like to use it as his yearbook senior photo (warning: auto-play video). School officials will permit the photo in the yearbook, but not as his official photo.

So Draven has launched an online petition to gather support for an appeal of that decision. It's important to him because he wants people to look at that photo and say, "Yeah, only Draven would do that."

-via Twitchy


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I showed this to my senior daughter, and she is gung-ho to get a portrait just like this made with her cat. She even called my brother and arranged it. Brother Bill couldn't stop laughing, but he agreed to do it. She says she will send it out with her graduation invitations.

Thankyouverymuch, John.
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I unloaded 40,000 bricks by hand once. No tangible fingerprints for a fortnight or so, but interestingly I did still leave a print from the sebaceous glands which were still there and while follow the patterns of the (missing) prints.
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Man, going into the US you have to give everything but a urine test. this guy shouldn't have had to give his fingerprints in the first place.

All people coming in should not be guilty til proven innocent. I feel like this is such a violation of rights.
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On a blog (like it is here), this is interesting. When it's reported all over the major news channels (like it has been the past week or so), one starts to wonder how such a near-inconsequential story gets picked up.
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This happened to Mother last year when we were flying in to Newark. She had just finished treatment for breast cancer and her fingerprints didn't match up to homeland security records. She was detained for several hours, but was eventually allowed to proceed after one of the officers on duty said his wife had had the same thing happen to her
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When I used to climb 5 days a week, I lost my fingerprints altogether. I always thought it would've been a good time to commit some crime. (Of course, I guess I could just wear gloves for the same effect.)
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I hope they don't do this to citizens of the US. I work with a law enforcement agency and I do not take this drug, but I do not have fingerprints. They can get 2 or 3 partials with the laser fingerprint machines, but they don't get even that much with ink. It is a natural condition.
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