The Knucklehead of the Day award Part One

We have three excellent winners today.

Our first winner is Sweden's National Tax board. They get the award for the following.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Metallica may be a cool name for a heavy metal band, but a Swedish couple is struggling to convince officials it is also suitable for a baby girl.

Michael and Karolina Tomaro are locked in a court battle with Swedish authorities, which rejected their application to name their six-month-old child after the legendary rock band.

"It suits her," Karolina Tomaro, 27, said Tuesday of the name. "She's decisive and she knows what she wants."

Although little Metallica has already been baptized, the Swedish National Tax Board refused to register the name, saying it was associated with both the rock group and the word "metal."

Tomaro said the official handling the case also called the name "ugly."

The couple was backed by the County Administrative Court in Goteborg, which ruled on March 13 that there was no reason to block the name. It also noted that there already is a woman in Sweden with Metallica as a middle name.

The tax agency appealed to a higher court, frustrating the family's foreign travel plans.

I think Metallica is a dumb name for a child, boy or girl. However the government shouldn't be telling parents what to or what not to name their children. The government lost and should have abandoned the fight but they didn't.

For wasting government time and money in a dumb legal fight, Sweden's National Tax board is our first Knucklehead winner of the Day.

Hat tip- Michelle Malkin
Linked to- Amboy Times, Basil, Bright & Early, Jo, Leaning Straight Up, Morewhat, Outside the Beltway, Perri Nelson, Pirate's Cove, Pursuing Holiness, Random Yak, Right Voices, Right Wing Nation, Third World County,