Parents, beware: Choose your baby's name carefully or in a few years, that child could seek refuge in the courts to change that embarrassing moniker--just like a little 9-year-old girl is doing right now in New Zealand. Her given, legal name is: Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii. She hates it so much she has not only told her friends to call her simply K, but has sought help from a sympathetic judge.
CNN reports that Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii has been made a ward of the court by family court Judge Rob Murfitt. He blasted parents for saddling children with embarrassing names, telling the New Zealand Press Assocaition, "It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap."
Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii isn't the only name that has caught the judge's ire. He cited other New Zealand parents who have used these names:
--Twins named Benson and Hedges (after a brand of cigarettes)
--Violence
--No. 16 Bus Shelter
