This is kind of like being the only kid in your school named Phuc, only worser.
As in bang, bang, shoot, shoot, messing-with-Mexican-drug-cartels, holy-crap-I-might-end-up-dead bad.
As in "Just call me Judy. Please?"
Reuters has the sign-o'-the-times story, right here:
A Texas state senator's beloved signature symbol will be reluctantly stripped from her campaign vehicle and rally signs this weekend after police in her border town warned it could draw unwelcome attention from Mexican drug cartels.
Veteran Democratic Sen. Judith Zaffirini is known by her friends, loved ones and constituents simply as "Z."
But authorities told her sister recently that the symbol, which translates in Spanish to "zeta," could cause the truck to be mistaken for vehicles belonging to the deadly "Zeta" cartel, based on the Texas-Mexico border.
Zaffirini told Reuters on Saturday she was grateful for the warning, but found it "disappointing" and "mind-boggling."
"Sadly, we will remove the 'Z' from our campaign vehicle and will not use it at rallies or other public places," she said.
Late last month, police in downtown Laredo pulled over Zaffirini's sister, Josie Pappas. The officer pointed to three bumper stickers on the pick-up's back window.
The stickers, bearing the word "Zaffirini," were applied in a big "Z" formation on the glass of the blue Ford F-150 truck.
Pappas told Reuters the officer asked her if she had noticed "cars full of men passing me by and staring back" at her car recently.
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