05-04-2020 , 11:48 AM
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.