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FED-UP residents of a picture postcard village called F***ing are voting on whether to change its name.

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The move came after a growing number of calls by pranksters from abroad who ring up locals and ask “Is that F***ing” — before bursting into laughter and hanging up.

 

The Austrian village's street signs are regularly stolen even though they are welded to steel posts set in concrete.

 

Mayor Franz Meindl said: “The phone calls are really the final straw.

 

“I always wanted the name to stay but it’s just got too much now. The only problem is that we need all of the F***ing residents to agree to the name change. Everyone needs to agree for it to happen.

 

“As you can imagine there are heated discussions about the name change.”

 

Drivers heading into the village have often spotted naked tourist couples romping in front of the name signs.

 

Local entrepreneurs have made the situation worse by flogging F***ing postcards, F***ing Christmas cards and even more recently F***ing Beer.

 

Residents voted to keep the name in 1996 despite problems caused by American servicemen from across the border in Germany who drove to the area just to be photographed in front of signs.

 

They then sent the snaps back home to their girlfriends and wives.

 

Around 100 villagers will this week hold a meeting to decide whether to switch the name to either ‘Fuking’ or ‘Fugging’.

 

If the change goes ahead, they will be following in the footsteps of stadium bosses in Switzerland who were forced to change their name because red-faced stars were too embarrassed to play there, in W a n kdorf.

 

Here it is in Google Maps: http://g.co/maps/ttmrz

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Think you mean this story:

 

FED-UP residents of a picture postcard village called F***ing are voting on whether to change its name.

comment on this story 71 comments

 

The move came after a growing number of calls by pranksters from abroad who ring up locals and ask “Is that F***ing” — before bursting into laughter and hanging up.

 

The Austrian village's street signs are regularly stolen even though they are welded to steel posts set in concrete.

 

Mayor Franz Meindl said: “The phone calls are really the final straw.

 

“I always wanted the name to stay but it’s just got too much now. The only problem is that we need all of the F***ing residents to agree to the name change. Everyone needs to agree for it to happen.

 

“As you can imagine there are heated discussions about the name change.”

 

Drivers heading into the village have often spotted naked tourist couples romping in front of the name signs.

 

Local entrepreneurs have made the situation worse by flogging F***ing postcards, F***ing Christmas cards and even more recently F***ing Beer.

 

Residents voted to keep the name in 1996 despite problems caused by American servicemen from across the border in Germany who drove to the area just to be photographed in front of signs.

 

They then sent the snaps back home to their girlfriends and wives.

 

Around 100 villagers will this week hold a meeting to decide whether to switch the name to either ‘Fuking’ or ‘Fugging’.

 

If the change goes ahead, they will be following in the footsteps of stadium bosses in Switzerland who were forced to change their name because red-faced stars were too embarrassed to play there, in W a n kdorf.

 

Here it is in Google Maps: http://g.co/maps/ttmrz

 

That was in the metro yesterday. This one is better:

 

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 ****ing are failing to see the funny side.

 

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

 

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

 

"We will not stand for the ****ing signs being removed," the officer said.

 

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

 

Local tourist guide Andreas Behmueller said it was only the British that had a fixation with ****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 Hilter's birthplace in Braunau."

 

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

 

Guesthouse manager Augustina Lindelbauer described the village's breathtaking lakes, forests and vistas. "Yet still there is this obsession with ****ing," she said. "Just this morning I had to tell an English lady that there were no ****ing postcards."

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