CNN.com - Couple try to name baby bin Laden - September 5, 2002

I honestly don't know what's worse. You have a couple of Turkish extraction, living in Germany who want to name their child "Osama bin Laden". And yet, I'm on their side, because of one of Germany's insane nanny-state Eurolaws:

Names can only be registered in Germany if they fulfil certain criteria. A name must clearly identify the child's gender and must not ridicule the child or be offensive.

Speaking as someone who's spent days of his life spelling his first name and assuring people that it is his first name... That's just ridiculous. I understand that they don't want people naming their kids "Adolf Hitler Schmidt", but this is really the government interfering where it doesn't belong.