2 years in prison for guard who failed to stop teddy bear invasion
MINSK, Belarus (AP) - A Belarusian court has handed out a two-year prison sentence to a border guard who failed to protect the ex-Soviet nation from foreign teddy bears.
Belarus Supreme Court said Monday the guard has been convicted of failure to report an intrusion of a light plane that dropped hundreds of teddy bears decked out in parachutes and slogans supporting human rights over the tightly controlled country of 10 million. The court wouldn't give his name or rank.
Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed "Europe's last dictator" in the West, already sacked several top defense officials over the July 4 incident, in which two Swedish advertising agency employees piloted a light plane into Belarus' heavily guarded airspace in a show of support for Belarusian human rights activists.
Belarus Supreme Court said Monday the guard has been convicted of failure to report an intrusion of a light plane that dropped hundreds of teddy bears decked out in parachutes and slogans supporting human rights over the tightly controlled country of 10 million. The court wouldn't give his name or rank.
Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed "Europe's last dictator" in the West, already sacked several top defense officials over the July 4 incident, in which two Swedish advertising agency employees piloted a light plane into Belarus' heavily guarded airspace in a show of support for Belarusian human rights activists.
Sounds like Belarusian airspace is about as heavily guarded as Washington D.C. airspace was on 9/11/01.
If it is "heavily guarded airspace " then why did only one guy go to prison?
@WendyTeagarden  Because sh!! rolls downhill?
@Kushfan ....and Teddy Bears fly.
If Jesse Jackson had been there, he would have shot them all down with his "weapon of War, Assault Rifle"Â Then he would have blown up a train.