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I had to post this, because I don't want to JR in trouble with the FCC if I read it on air:

Brits driving Austrians bonkers over rude village name

LONDON (AFP) - British tourists have left the residents of one charming Austrian village effing and blinding by constantly stealing the signs for their oddly-named village.

While British visitors are finding it hilarious, the residents of F---ing are failing to see the funny side, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.

Only one kind of criminal ever stalks the sleepy 32-house village near Salzburg on the German border -- cheeky British tourists armed with a sense of humour and a screwdriver.

But the local authorities are hitting back and with the signs now set in concrete, police chief Kommandant Schmidtberger is on the lookout.

"We will not stand for the F---ing signs being removed," the officer told the broadsheet.

"It may be very amusing for you British, but F---ing is simply F---ing to us. What is this big F---ing joke? It is puerile."

Local guide Andreas Behmueller said it was only the British that had a fixation with F---ing.

"The Germans all want to see the Mozart house in Salzburg," he explained.

"Every American seems to care only about 'The Sound of Music' (the 1965 film shot around Salzburg). The occasional Japanese wants to see Hitler's birthplace in Braunau.

"But for the British, it's all about F---ing."

Guesthouse boss Augustina Lindlbauer described the village's breathtaking lakes, forests and vistas.

"Yet still there is this obsession with F---ing," she said.

"Just this morning I had to tell an English lady who stopped by that there were no F---ing postcards."

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LOL yea this one is best kept here!

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That is hillarious! I went to Austria, but F---king was not part of the trip.

-- Edited by Trish at 09:22, 2005-08-29

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Thats almost as bad as F***ingham in England. lol


 


such a shame tho that the F**ing signs keep disappearing. Do you know how much those things cost?



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They should've gone puritanical in their naming... On this side of the pond, no one seems interested in stealing the signs in Intercourse, PA.

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Or Virginville, PA or Blueball, PA. Go figure.

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