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Fucking (/ˈfʌkɪŋ/ German: [ˈfʊkɪŋ] (nulllisten)) is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, located in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. The village is 33 kilometres (21 mi) north of Salzburg, and is 4 km (2.5 mi) east of the Inn river, which forms part of the German border.

Despite having a population of only 104 in 2005, the village has drawn attention in the English-speaking world for its place-name, which is spelled the same as an inflected form of the profane English-language verb "fuck".[2][3] Its road signs are a popular visitor attraction, and they were often stolen by souvenir-hunting vandals until 2005, when the signs were modified to be theft-resistant...Source
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Quote:Mayor of Fucking, Siegfried Höppl, stated that it was decided to keep the name as it had existed for 800 years, and further stated that “Everyone here knows what it means in English, but for us Fucking is Fucking—and it’s going to stay Fucking.”

The spate of sign thefts continued, including the theft of all four signs in a single night, until the road signs were replaced with theft-resistant versions in 2005 – which were welded to steel and secured in concrete to prevent theft. Commander Schmitzberger, the local police chief, said that “We will not stand for the Fucking signs being removed. It may be very amusing for you British, but Fucking is simply Fucking to us. What is this big Fucking joke? It is puerile.”

But although tourists were no longer able to steal the Fucking road signs quite so easily, the town had to go one step further and install CCTV cameras in the vicinity of each one – in an attempt to deter summertime tourists from filming themselves fucking in front of the Fucking signs. Oh my.
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I did see a selfie taken by young couple doing it under the sign...
Fucking hilarious Lmao
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This is a Fucking real story.
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