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The Beckhams in Ireland!!!

  • 14-02-2008 2:11am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭


    Feel free to move to the celebs forum if it's more suitable but this story's a cracker -

    http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1305169,00.html
    Pain From A Name: Beckhams' Torment

    Tadhg Enright
    In Belfast Updated:09:18, Wednesday February 13, 2008

    A couple who've changed their name to David and Victoria Beckham claim their lives have been made a misery as a result.

    David and Victoria BeckhamThe pair say they've become prisoners in their own home - but its not the paparazzi that are keeping them holed up in their very own Beckingham Palace.

    Their tormentors are teenage thugs, who have been attacking the property in west Belfast, Northern Ireland.

    David said of the yob abuse: "It's been going on for the past couple of years. They were coming around and throwing eggs and stones at windows."

    But last month, the anti-social behaviour became more sinister when thugs smashed their sitting-room window in the early hours of the morning.

    "A big ball of ice came through the window," said David. "They must have made it. It was like a football".

    Victoria had been making a cup of tea in the kitchen at the time and David says the outcome could have been worse if she'd been in the front room at the time.

    He added: "She could have been hurt. It could have hit her in the head and knocked her out."

    The Beckhams reported the incident to the police and the housing executive.

    The couple's front windows have now been boarded up and David has installed CCTV cameras to keep their tormentors at bay.

    The pair have become well known across Northern Ireland since they changed their names by deed-poll in 2003.

    But they don't believe they're being targeted because of their celebrity status or their allegiance to Manchester United.

    Sadly for them, it has upset plans they had to visit the Beckhams' old stomping ground.

    "We were supposed to go to Old Trafford, but we can't get away because the boarding is still up and we're still waiting for new glass," said David.

    David and Victoria are so afraid they'll be attacked again, they say that once their windows are fixed, the wooden boarding will be going back up at their home, which bears a "Beckingham Palace" name-plate.

    "I hate not being able to see outside but I don't think we have any other choice," said Victoria. "I would just be waiting for the windows to be smashed again."

    :D How sad can two people be?


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,331 ✭✭✭✭bronte


    They actually changed their name to David and Victoria Beckham? :eek:
    WTF?!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Lawless_Samurai


    Ah thats made up... Its got to be :confused:

    Just when you think the world couldn't get any sadder....


    Changing their names they might as well walk around with TWAT tattooed across their foreheads!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    Serves the idiots right, never thought I'd support vandals and thugs, but in this case I'm gonna make an exception! :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,974 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    Sad is one way of putting it. Stupidity is another


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭foxy06


    But I can see why they did it i mean they are the spit of the beckhams in the sky pic:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 383 ✭✭DILLIGAF


    right is name changing considered really sad? Me and a mate were/are gonna get our names changed. He was going to pick Optimus and I was gonna pick Otocon! It's just supposed to be funny, was gonna change it back after, but first wanted to see if I could get a legal document with it on it as my name. He doesn't even really like transformers but was only going to respond to Optimus if anyone called or wanted to talk to him! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    Ah I heard about this, what a bunch of goons, they're ugly as fcuk as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 391 ✭✭Beerlao


    posh looks HOT there


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    Durrrrr


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭Serpentine


    DILLIGAF wrote: »
    right is name changing considered really sad? Me and a mate were/are gonna get our names changed. He was going to pick Optimus and I was gonna pick Otocon! It's just supposed to be funny, was gonna change it back after, but first wanted to see if I could get a legal document with it on it as my name. He doesn't even really like transformers but was only going to respond to Optimus if anyone called or wanted to talk to him! :D

    You have to do this! :D


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