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Couple Fights to Name Baby 'Metallica'

 
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:43 pm    Post subject: Couple Fights to Name Baby 'Metallica' Reply with quote

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Metallica may be a cool name for a heavy metal band, but a Swedish couple is struggling to convince officials it is also suitable for a baby girl.

Michael and Karolina Tomaro are locked in a court battle with Swedish authorities, which rejected their application to name their six-month- old child after the legendary rock band.

"It suits her," Karolina Tomaro, 27, said Tuesday of the name. "She's decisive and she knows what she wants."

Although little Metallica has already been baptized, the Swedish National Tax Board refused to register the name, saying it was associated with both the rock group and the word "metal."

Tomaro said the official handling the case also called the name "ugly."

The couple was backed by the County Administrative Court in Goteborg, which ruled on March 13 that there was no reason to block the name. It also noted that there already is a woman in Sweden with Metallica as a middle name.

The tax agency appealed to a higher court, frustrating the family's foreign travel plans.

"We've had to cancel trips and can't get anywhere because we can't get her a passport without an approved name," Tomaro said.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think it's a great name, and one she could be proud of.

Leave it to those crazy Swedes to actually do it, though.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hahahaha That's so minor!! Here in HOng Kong, people get the craziest English names, we've met people called Money, Cockroach and Thirteen. I think Metallica is nicer than those names!!!
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