{"id":19940,"date":"2016-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/aussie-man-wins-fight-to-have-penis-signature-printed-on-driver-s-license\/"},"modified":"2016-01-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T00:00:00","slug":"aussie-man-wins-fight-to-have-penis-signature-printed-on-driver-s-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/aussie-man-wins-fight-to-have-penis-signature-printed-on-driver-s-license\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie man wins fight to have his \u201cpenis signature\u201d printed on driver\u2019s license"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Image | theage.com.au<\/h6>\n<h3>Melbourne man Jared Hyams has been allowed to have a drawing of a penis appear as his signature on his Victorian driver\u2019s license.<\/h3>\n<p>Mr Hymas first used his \u201cpenis signature\u201d on an Australian Electoral Commission form as a joke several years ago, and has spent the last five years trying to use it on all his official documents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/license5.jpg\" width=\"618\" height=\"349\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Image | theage.com.au<\/h6>\n<h3>\u201cI thought it would be a laugh, they would approve it and next year I would sign something different,\u201d Mr Hymas has told The Age newspaper.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cBut when I did this signature all of a sudden I was receiving letters and phone calls telling me I couldn&#8217;t&#8217; have it. I thought, that&#8217;s interesting, why not?<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIt sparked something in me, I didn&#8217;t understand if these people were offended or had taken it personally.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/license3.jpg\" width=\"618\" height=\"349\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Image | theage.com.au<\/h6>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/license2.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Image | theage.com.au<\/h6>\n<h3>Mr Hymas says the experience inspired him to start studying law and he has successfully had his unique signature appear on a number of documents, including his health card, library card and students cars as well as on bank documents.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/license4.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"347\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Image | theage.com.au<\/h6>\n<h3>But the Department of Trade and Foreign Affairs have denied him a passport, saying the signature could be considered as sexual harassment towards staff.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/michael-voss-impressed-by-port-adelaide-s-powerful-statement\">MICHAEL VOSS IMPRESSED WITH POWER STATEMENT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/aussie-tv-star-in-high-profile-twitter-spat-over-gayle-gate\">AUSSIE TV STAR IN TWITTER SPAT OVER \u201cGAYLE-GATE\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image | theage.com.au Melbourne man Jared Hyams has been allowed to have a drawing of a penis appear as his signature on his Victorian driver\u2019s license. Mr Hymas first used his \u201cpenis signature\u201d on an Australian Electoral Commission form as a joke several years ago, and has spent the last five years trying to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-19940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Aussie man wins fight to have his \u201cpenis signature\u201d printed on driver\u2019s license - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/aussie-man-wins-fight-to-have-penis-signature-printed-on-driver-s-license\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aussie man wins fight to have his \u201cpenis signature\u201d printed on driver\u2019s license\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Image | theage.com.au Melbourne man Jared Hyams has been allowed to have a drawing of a penis appear as his signature on his Victorian driver\u2019s license. 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