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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Grumpmeister on July 24, 2008, 11:30:39 AM
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I'm sorry but just how brain damaged do these parents have to be to want to name their kids with such ridiculous names. And what posessed the authorities to allow these names in the first place?? Number 9 Bus Shelter?
Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii? Surely this comes under child abuse?
A judge in New Zealand made a young girl a ward of court so that she could change the name she hated - Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii.
Judge Rob Murfitt said that the name embarrassed the nine-year-old and could expose her to teasing.
He attacked a trend of giving children bizarre names, citing several examples.
Officials had blocked Sex Fruit, Keenan Got Lucy and Yeah Detroit, he said, but Number 16 Bus Shelter, Violence and Midnight Chardonnay had been allowed.
One mother wanted to name her child O.crnia using text language, but was later persuaded to use Oceania, he said.
'Social handicap'
The ruling, in the city of New Plymouth on the North Island, was handed down in February but only made public now.
UNUSUAL NAMES
Allowed:
Violence
Number 16 Bus Shelter
Midnight Chardonnay
Benson and Hedges
Blocked:
Yeah Detroit
Stallion
Twisty Poi
Keenan Got Lucy
Sex Fruit
Fat Boy
Cinderella Beauty Blossom
Fish and Chips
The name issue emerged during a custody hearing for the young girl - who had refused to tell her friends her name and went simply by "K".
"The court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment which this child's parents have shown in choosing this name," Judge Murfitt wrote.
"It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap, unnecessarily."
Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii's name has now been changed and the custody case resolved, court officials said.
New Zealand does not allow names that would cause offence or that are longer than 100 characters, Registrar-General Brian Clarke said.
Officials often tried to talk parents out of particularly unusual choices that could embarrass their offspring, the Associated Press news agency quoted him as saying.
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New Zealand ~ says it all really. ::)
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Cinderella Beauty Blossom - not allowed but
Violence, and Benson & Hedges - allowed.
Good grief ! although all the names were crap.
From the thread title I thought this was going to be a trip down memory lane eyes:
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We have met in a previous life whistle:
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Sex Fruit and Fat Boy? cloud9:
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noooo:
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Fat Fruit and Sex Boy?