homeydaclown
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Post by homeydaclown on Jul 24, 2008 18:33:17 GMT -5
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A family court judge in New Zealand has had enough with parents giving their children bizarre names here, and did something about it.
Just ask Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii. He had her renamed.
Judge Rob Murfitt made the 9-year-old girl a ward of the court so that her name could be changed, he said in a ruling made public Thursday. The girl was involved in a custody battle, he said.
The new name was not made public to protect the girl's privacy.
"The court is profoundly concerned about the very poor judgment which this child's parents have shown in choosing this name," he wrote. "It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap, unnecessarily."
The girl had been so embarrassed at the name that she had never told her closest friends what it was. She told people to call her "K" instead, the girl's lawyer, Colleen MacLeod, told the court.
In his ruling, Murfitt cited a list of the unfortunate names.
Registration officials blocked some names, including Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy and Sex Fruit, he said. But others were allowed, including Number 16 Bus Shelter "and tragically, Violence," he said.
New Zealand law does not allow names that would cause offense to a reasonable person, among other conditions, said Brian Clarke, the registrar general of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
Clarke said officials usually talked to parents who proposed unusual names to convince them about the potential for embarrassment.info from hereWhat do you think? I didn't know people in other cointries name their kids like that. I thought names like Bonquiesha were bad!!!!!!!
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Post by ~One Of Three~ on Jul 25, 2008 16:46:05 GMT -5
Now really?? I've heard some names in my life but peeps in New Zealand take the cake! I'm so glad everyone in my family has common names or nothing out of the ordinary and I'm so glad that we don't have an -Isha, -Quisha in the bunch however I do have a cousin named...get ready... Edwardnika...i think we can all figure out what her dad's name is.
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Post by michelle on Jul 26, 2008 11:30:49 GMT -5
Now that's just a shame.
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