  We compute the contribution to charged Higgs boson pair production at the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) due to the scattering of two electroweak (EW) gauge
bosons, these being in turn generated via bremsstrahlung off incoming quarks: q
q --> q q V^*V^* --> q q H^+H^- (V=gamma,Z,W^{+/-}). We verify that the
production cross section of this mode is tan beta independent and show that it
is smaller than that of H^+H^- production via q q-initiated processes but
generally larger than that of the loop-induced channel gg --> H^+H^-. Pair
production of charged Higgs bosons is crucial in order to test EW symmetry
breaking scenarios beyond the Standard Model (SM). We show that the detection
of these kind of processes at the standard LHC is however problematic, because
of their poor production rates and the large backgrounds.
