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Leave us alone, F*cking community mayor pleads
By Thomas Hochwarter
The Mayor of a community called Fucking has said residents want to be "left in peace" after they once again made international headlines.
Fucking, a 100-people community which is part of the Upper Austrian town of Tarsdorf, has become an international sensation because of its name.
It has had 15 place name signs stolen in recent years by visitors and residents say dozens of buses packed with "tourists" regularly visit the town to have their picture taken next to the place name sign.
But Mayor Franz Meindl told Austrian Times: "We don’t find it funny. We just want to be left alone."
"There are all these stories all the time – especially in summer. Everybody writes what they want," the People’s Party (ÖVP) mayor added.
He pledged: "Just leave us alone. We don’t harm anyone and just want to live in peace."
Asked what he thought of the international fascination with the town’s name, he said: "I really don’t know. It is just the usual spelling of the word. I’m sure I would find many town names in Britain or somewhere else which sound funny when they are pronounced in German."
And he said he would not consider changing the community’s name. He said: "There is nothing funny in the name to us and therefore I see no reason to change it. If other people laugh about it, there is nothing we can do. But we pronounce it differently in our dialect and it was never funny in any way."
Mayor Meindl also rejected suggestions the community may have benefitted economically from people coming to see the signs.
"I haven’t heard of a publican who had more guests because of the hype," he said.
Austrian Times
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Willie Jennings wrote on 04. 08. 2009 from Annandale, Virginia about "Leave us alone, F*cking c..."
With regards to our story: Leave us alone, F*cking community mayor pleads" - Willie Jennings writes: "Truthfully, at first, I agreed but then the more I thought about it. Just because "Fuck" in English is considered vulgar and/or funny, does not mean it is the same in the Austrian language. Reminds me of my father-in-law who went to Paris and thought the French were rude to speak to him in french! It is their language."
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David L. Speck wrote on 01. 08. 2009 from Portland, Or about "Leave us alone, F*cking c..."
I don't understand how this Mayor does not realize that the word Fuck means the following; refer to page "432" and read the definitions of fuck and it's formal usage. I find it amusing, don't you?
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