14 DAY TRIAL // King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite, formerly known as Mathew Whelan, is a man with a passion, and it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out what this passion is. On the contrary, all one needs is one look at him.
Long story short, this 34-year-old very much likes getting inked, and he currently sports so many pieces of body art that he is said to be Britain's most tattooed man.
Thus, 90% of his body, including his eyeballs, is presently covered in tattoos.
By the looks of it, it is his commitment to this form of body art that is now preventing the 34-year-old man from traveling abroad.
To put it in a nutshell, authorities in Britain have refused to approve his request to renew his passport on account of his name.
More precisely, they said that the name King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite does not a suitable passport name make, and offered to write down the man's birth name, i.e. Mathew Whelan, instead.
Interestingly enough, the 34-year-old, who changed his name to King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite four years ago, already has this fairly long and rather peculiar moniker inscribed on his driving license.
Consequently, he cannot quite understand why it is that the same name cannot also be written down in his renewed passport.
The best that authorities could offer as an explanation was a policy section saying that strings of words or phrases cannot figure in such official papers, Metro reports.
As was to be expected, the man is not at all pleased with the situation he currently finds himself in, and says that, all things considered, the people refusing to write King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite on his new passport are failing to respect his human rights.
“This is a breach of my human rights. They want to put my birth name on my passport. But that is not my name any more,” the 34-year-old told the press in a recent interview.
King of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite has filed a complaint, and is now waiting to see whether or not authorities will agree to issue him a new passport and have his new name inscribed on it.