Men who are actually named James Bond reveal how it has led to dangerous problems
A group of men revealed that having a name etched in pop culture like James Bond isn’t all that is cracked up to be.
For most people, their birth name doesn’t give them that many problems, but this doesn’t seem to be the case for men who share a name with the most popular and well-known spy in the world, James Bond.
Unfortunately for them, the last name Bond isn’t particularly unique, and James also happens to be a rather popular Christian name.
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While you might assume this comes with a whole bunch of hilarious stories, multiple men have come forward to dispel this idea.
In a video that has begun circulating on social media, a group of men explain the horrible situations they have found themselves in just because of their name.
The clip is actually for a trailer of a documentary that released in 2022 looking at the phenomenon of living in a world with the name Bond... James Bond.
In the documentary, multiple Bonds said it was crucial to have your ID on you when it comes to dealing with the authorities, as they rarely believe the person is being genuine, for obvious reasons. One Bond even explained his name resulted in a very dangerous encounter with the police as the officer pulled a gun on him.
Recalling the story, he said: “So I tell him, ‘James’ and he says, ‘Do you got a last name there, James?’ and I said, ‘Bond’, and so he reached through the window of the car and grabbed me by my shirt and said, ‘You f**ked with the wrong guy on the wrong day’, and proceeded to pull me through the window of the car.
“I’m telling the guy, ‘Please, please, please, my name really is James Bond.’ That, right there, was enough to get the guy to draw down on me - up from the holster and right in my face - and he’s like, ‘Yeah right, and I’m Donald f**king Duck. Get on the ground, get on the ground.’
“He sort of calmed down, had me stand at the back of the car, went back to his car, ran my driver’s licence, came back and said, ‘That’s a cool name, son’ and went ahead and let me go.”
So if your last name is Bond and you're about to welcome a baby boy, maybe give James a miss as a first name.
Topics: James Bond, Community
Gerrard Kaonga