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AFP Brits driving Austrians bonkers over rude village name Sun Aug 28, 6:35 AM ET LONDON, (AFP) - British tourists have left the residents of one charming Austrian village effing and blinding by constantly stealing the signs fo r their oddly-named village.
Click Here While British visitors are finding it hilarious, the residents of F---ing are failing to see the funny side, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper repor ted. Only one kind of crimimal ever stalks the sleepy 32-house village near Sa lzburg on the German border -- cheeky British tourists armed with a sens e of humour and a screwdriver. But the local authorities are hitting back and with the signs now set in concrete, police chief Kommandant Schmidtberger is on the lookout. "We will not stand for the F---ing signs being removed," the officer told the broadsheet. "It may be very amusing for you British, but F---ing is simply F---ing to us. Local guide Andreas Behmueller said it was only the British that had a fi xation with F---ing. "The Germans all want to see the Mozart house in Salzburg," he explained. "Every American seems to care only about 'The Sound of Music' (the 1965 f ilm shot around Salzburg). The occasional Japanese wants to see Hitler's birthplace in Braunau. Guesthouse boss Augustina Lindlbauer described the village's breathtaking lakes, forests and vistas. "Yet still there is this obsession with F---ing," she said. "Just this morning I had to tell an English lady who stopped by that ther e were no F---ing postcards."
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