A boy named Max Hell is having trouble getting into an Australian Catholic School (via Maverick Philosopher).

Mr Hell said he initially decided to enrol Max at the school under his wife’s maiden name, to avoid the ridicule he himself had suffered as a schoolboy.

The decision won the support of the school’s head teacher and parish priest, he said.

But at the last minute, he and his wife decided against the name change.

Mr Hell claimed the priest refused to accept his son as Hell, and was told by the school’s head he had “made a rod for your son’s back”.

“It’s Hell. That’s our name, it’s our heritage,” Mr Hell told The Age newspaper. “It’s who he is, and if he wants to change his name at 18 then that’s up to him.”

For my uncultured readers, the title is a reference to Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue.”