June 03, 2007

'Welcome to Fucking, Austria!'


'Bitte - nicht so schnell' is German for 'Please - not so fast!'.... LOL

Tourists are causing a lot of anxiety - and money - to a tiny village where signs keep disappearing. What do signs say? "Welcome to Fucking, Austria". Pronounced Fooking, the little hamlet is named after a 6th century gentleman by the name Focko who founded it.

The town sign has been stolen seven times in the last few months already. Siegfried Hoeppel, the mayor of Fucking, has to spend a sizeable amount of his annual budget on replacing stolen signs.

But with signs like these, surely we'd want the entertainment going!!

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