My Grandmother alway taught me,

'sticks and stones may break your bones, but names will never hurt you',

such a true statement, a pity more people were not taught the truth of this statement, as today it appears that names can hurt you, and even give you a prison sentence! a young dog breeder in eastern China was recently arrested and sentenced to ten days in a detention center after giving two of his canines controversial names that refer to Chinese government and civil service workers, the 30-year-old man, surnamed Ban, was summoned by police on Monday, after posting on Chinese social network WeChat that he had named two of his dogs Chengguan and Xieguan, the first refers to officials tasked with tackling low-level crime, while the second is a name used to describe informal community workers, such as traffic assistants, a police officer told Beijing News that the dog breeder had been increasingly provocative on social media, and that his latest stunt had “caused great harm to the nation and the city’s urban management, in terms of their feelings”, “I didn’t know the law, I didn’t know this was illegal,” Ban explained, but it was all in vain, He was sentenced to 10 days in an administrative detention center in the city of Xiangyang for having spread “insulting information… against law enforcement personnel”,  “Can you tell me which law stipulates that dogs can’t be called Chengguan?” one Weibo user, commented, photograph Yingzhou Police.