Angry residents in the village of F***ing are complaining about drunken English speaking callers demanding to know 'Is that F***ing?' - before bursting into laughter and then hanging up. The Austrian village of F***ing is providing much mirth to the British
Pranksters noticed that residents of the badly named village could be found by typing the word 'F***ing' in the online Austrian telephone book www.auskunft.at.
Also available on the telephone book are locals at the Austrian villages of Oberf***ing, Windpassing, W**kham, and Rottenegg - although it seems that F***ing is the most popular - and the one that is being targeted by pranksters.
And now random callers have been making life miserable for the villagers.
Johann Maier, 56, told local media: 'It's true - we get calls and a voice in English asking if we are in F***ing or is that F***ing - then there is laughter or something - and then they hang up.'
Mayor Siegfried Hauppl said: 'I don't know why they have to go on about it all the time the English - we are always in the news but we are just a little village - we want to be left in peace.'
And he rejected any suggestion that the village change its name.
Last year locals in the Swiss village of W**k urged the F***ing residents to lighten up - open a few guests houses and sell postcards to cash in on their fame.
The W**k Guest House, they said, was full all year round.
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