The 16-year-old launched a drive on iPetitions to convince his school in upstate New York to include a photo of him in a suit holding his fluffy cat — the aforementioned Mr. Bigglesworth.
“Hi all. This is my photo that should be going into the yearbook, but we know how finicky the school systems can be. I’m hoping that with enough signatures, my school simply can’t turn this down,” Rodriguez wrote on the petition page.
In a note Rodriguez points out that the school district has not rejected the picture taken by Vincent Giordano of Trinacria Photography.
Click here to see more awesome photos of Rodriguez and Mr. Bigglesworth with amazing lasers, lasers and more lasers.
Rodriquez told the Daily Gazette in Schenectady that as a junior he vowed his senior picture would be different.
“I don’t want to go in the yearbook with the generic ‘I-look-like-everyone-else’ photo,” he told the Gazette. “I wanted a ‘He looks great. Only he would try that’ photo.”
A school spokeswoman told the newspaper that the photo can be included in the yearbook, but not in the senior portrait section.
What do you think?
Should they accept the picture?
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