This just in from a correspondent to the tipline.
Just had a visit from the Masterton Plunket nurse to check on our three-week-old. The nurse told us she is horrified that just recently the registrar of births (or whowever is legally responsible for naming) allowed a local couple to name their son Al Qaeda. She was sure it would be disallowed, as other less offensive names but absurd names had been, but no. The parents even stated to Plunket and others that they wanted the kid to have a mean, tough name – so they can’t even claim it’s about some sort of mad religious statement!
Words fail me, it beggars belief.
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Betty when you call me, you can call me Al
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What chance does that child have… he’s on the back foot from birth!
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No doubt this unfortunate kids parents are members of a certain gang…the father AL coholic and mum p nelopy
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The CIA are at this very minute attempting to locate Masterton as I type this
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Try travelling to the US with that on your passport.
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I think the Registrar offers cheap or free ‘deed polls’ for young children for when parents come to their senses.
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These parents are guilty of child abuse. I’m serious.
This child will have no chance in life. The Justice Dept might as well reserve a jail cell for him now.
Both of these parents should be sterilised or shot (or both).
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The gene pool needs more chlorine
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Agreed, O.B.
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Just read the latest on the CIA web site re Masterton – not very favourable I’m afraid – various references to in breeding etc. Now listed as a hot target regular drone patrols have been authorised, all caves in the area located – locked and loaded. At last the CIA can do something right, vapourise Masterton now, Black Ops GO.
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Darn, if only a few cents worth of latex were avaliable at the time!
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Someone told you who heard it from someone, so it must be true!
BTW Cammy, have you seen gullible has been removed from wikipedia?
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Sonic, what do you find so hard to believe about this name? I mean, there have been classics like ‘Benson and Hedges’ (twins), ‘Number 16 Bus Shelter’, and ‘Violence’, and my fave ‘Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii’. The latter was so embarrassed by her name that she went by the initial K. Others that almost made the cut but were rejected by the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages include ‘Fish and Chips’ and ‘Keenan Got Lucky’. In comparison, ‘Al Qaeda’ seems rather tame.
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The following comes from the BBC and is online:
Thursday, 24 July 2008
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.
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 (twins)
Blocked: Yeah Detroit; Stallion; Twisty Poi; Keenan Got Lucy; Sex Fruit; Fat Boy; Cinderella Beauty Blossom; Fish and Chips (twins)
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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how dare you impinge on the human rights of the fucking stupid
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I’m sickened, but not surprised in the slightest. It was only a matter of time.
CYFS should immediately red-flag this family, and keep it under close observation.
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CYFS probably suggested the name
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“New Zealand does not allow names that would cause offence”, says the Registrar-General.
Bullshit. A name like “number 16 bus shelter” is fucking ridiculous, as is “Al Qaeda”. Those names will obviously cause offence to the children, so the R.G. should be sacked. Get someone in there who will stop this kind of bullshit.
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With a name like Al Qaeda you might as well send him to Catholic school and let Dr Hannibal Lecter fuck with his mind……watch this space.
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What ethnicity/religious group do the parents belong to? Anyone ask? Anyone find out?.
If they’re white, it’s roughly the same as (and as equally misguided as) all the hippie parents who named their kids Ho Chi Minh, Saigon or whatever, way back when – in which case it should be allowed, as the kid will grow up to democratically test the parents’ stupidity.
If, however, they are Muslims, they should be thrown out of the country for immediately obvious reasons. Call me cynical
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2 boys go to my son’s school, I’m not sure on the spelling – but one is Havoc, his older brother Chaos. No hope there is there?
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Am I the only one who thinks that this story just screams URBAN LEGEND?
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