A Bedford couple named their baby son Drew Peacock before realising it sounded rude. The baby's father Russell [Peacock] said he only twigged it when he put it in an internet search engine looking for famous namesakes, and was asked: Do you mean Droopy C**k? "It was as if I'd been smacked with a right hook. I started repeating 'Drew Peacock' over and over again. Then I thought - what have we done? I went numb and couldn't speak for two minutes. Then I couldn't stop laughing."
Mother Shetal Patel had also failed to spot their error despite being a registrar's assistant, says The Sun. She said: "I thought Russell had seen a ghost when he came away from the computer. We decided on the name a month before he was born - we both loved it straight away." The couple are now concerned Drew's name will cause him problems in later life. Russell said: "People at work are already saying, 'Hey, look there's Droopy's dad'. But we don't want to change his name. It's on his birth certificate and other documents." |