Austrian village has had enough of our Fucking shenanigans
Full disclosure: This happened back in November. But you know what? The world has been A Lot, so we missed it when it happened, and it’s funny and we really like that photo, so timeliness be damned, we’re going to cover it anyway. Pretend you’ve time-traveled to late November if you want, but only for this story, then hurry back to the present. Or just embrace the lateness. Anything goes! It’s your call! Choose your own context in which to read this story about how the goofy-ass shenanigans of a bunch of English-speaking, snort-laughing tourists drove the village of Fucking, Austria to change its name.
Per the Guardian, some experts date the village’s name back to the 11th century. Located approximately 161 miles west of Vienna, the small village (it boasts a population of around 100 exhausted people who have no interest in taking a selfie with you, buttholes) has endured years of cargo-short-wearing tourists posing for pictures, stealing signs, and manically giggling while asking for directions to the nearest Fucking bar. And the sign-stealing is no joke—after dozens were stolen, the local government began making signs taller and embedding those tall signs in “theft-resistant concrete.”
“I can confirm that the village is being renamed,” said Andrea Holzner, the mayor of Tarsdorf, the municipality to which the village belongs.
“I really don’t want to say anything more – we’ve had enough media frenzy about this in the past,” she told the regional daily Oberösterreichische Nachrichten (OOeN)