Renault can name new car Zoe as girls' case rejected (BBC)

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Renault can name a new car model Zoe, a French judge has ruled - throwing out a case brought by the parents of two girls called Zoe Renault.

The families had argued that their children - and to a lesser extent, other children who have the first name Zoe - could face a lifetime of mockery for sharing the name of a car.

But the judge found no evidence that it would cause the children "certain, direct and current harm".

The families say they plan to appeal.

"There's a line between living things and inanimate objects, and that line is defined by the first name," their lawyer David Koubbi told Associated Press.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11732595




I blame the parents who give their kids names like "Chastity" and "Hope". :evilgrin:

[Posteritatis]

1. I went to junior high with a James Kirk in the nineties; wonder what he'd think of this

I also have the same RL name as a very well-known actor, but I was born before he made it big so at least my parents have that excuse. ;)

[ET Awful]

2. Why am I suddenly reminded of