Monday, October 26, 2009


So apparently, there's a town called "Fucking" in Austria. But it's not pronounced the way as the vulgarity, it's pronounced 'fooking'. Read more about it on Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria

It was named after a man from the 6th Century called "Focko".

//Fucking's most famous feature is a traffic sign with its name on it, beside which tourists often stop to have their photograph taken. It is a commonly stolen street sign, owing to the identical spelling to a form of the English-language profanity.//

LOL because of this the locals have to constantly spend a significant amount of money to keep replacing the signs.

//In August 2005, the road signs were replaced with theft-resistant signs welded to steel and secured in concrete to prevent further chances of the sign being stolen.//
The Hetalia creator did an illustration of the town's situation in 2006 or 2007 XD (it's above)

{ i was alone at 12:35 PM}

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