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Smiles Outlawed: DMV Makes Life Even More Miserable

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Uploaded by on May 29, 2009

This week the Virginia DMV announced that it's going to outlaw smiling in driver's license photos. Thought life at the DMV couldn't get any worse? Wrong again, America.

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  • The DMV hates happy people.

  • In Soviet Russia passport take you.

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  • @ravensnaketotem I appreciate the sober, thoughtful response.

  • @Wormtail81 This is only a part though it takes the idea of being able to properly ID someone too far, police and other gov agencies are trained on how to look at a drivers license to tell if a person is who they say they are through various steps and whether a person is smiling or not will not change some of the things that they look for, so VA isn't going to really do anything with this to enhance identification

  • @mhatkins No. I'm just obnoxiously truthful, so who cares if you don't like it?

    ...You, I suppose, but that's arbitrary.

  • @QuartuvLarry Dude, you are definately a RETARD!

  • Anyone even THINKING of moving to VA. Please reconcider another state. And if you move here anway.... well... I tried to warn you.

  • And Virginia used to have a DUMB ASS law that prohibited driving barefoot. Like any one would know! C'MON! COMMONwealth of Virginia? OR COMMUNISTwealth of Virginia? Sling shit at the sign that "Welcomes" you to VA, and have a HUGE celebration as you leave this God-forsaken toilet of a so-called state!

  • SHIIIIIAT! I smiled at my mugshot going to the drunk tank! Virginia, lighten the hell up!

    In my videos, I've even copyrighted my own Cocksmile™

  • It's so people can be IDed

  • lol I would frown in my pic just to be a smart ass

  • I actually never really smiled for my pic UNTIL this ban started. The first lady got so mad at me it was ridiculous and kept taking the picture over and over. She was so obsessed with that, that she got the info on my license wrong! Just smile your entire time in the DMV and they can't really say it's not your "neutral" expression!

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