Topic: AUSTRIA - on April 18, 2012 at 8:39:00 AM CEST
Fucking, Austria, Considering Name Change
Prank callers have proved the final straw for the mayor of Fucking, who will hold a vote this week about whether to change the name of the village.
The good people of Fucking, Austria, have had it with English speakers. Since the end of World War II, this small Austrian village has been the target of jokes, pranks, insults and plain old rudeness.
A few years ago, this town of 104 welded its signs to metal poles because people kept stealing the signs. For a small town, sign replacement was getting very expensive. At other times, tourists would stop at the signs and engage in imaginary sex acts or partially clad women would have their photographs taken there. In all, it doesn’t provide much of a family environment.
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