A guard gets two years in prison for failing to protect Belarus from teddy bears.


http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/18/17007798-guard-gets-two-years-in-prison-for-failing-to-protect-belarus-from-teddy-bears?lite


For those of you who don't know, Belarus is a former Soviet Republic of about 10 million people.

A Belarusian border guard was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for failing to report a border crossing by a Swedish plane that parachuted hundreds of teddy bears into the country carrying pro-democracy protest messages. This officer is being sent to a maximum-security prison.

The situation between Belarus and Sweden eventually escalated into a diplomatic war. Each nation expelled the other's ambassador after the parachute drop.

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I thought this story was really funny because of how angry Belarus got over these teddy bears. They're actually sending this guard to a maximum-security prison where he will stay for the next two years. He only saw the airdrop and had no part in it. The crime apparently was him no reporting what he saw. That's pretty funny.

It is a pretty funny story, but he should have reported all the teddy bears.

I wonder how they found out that he actually saw them but just never said anything. I'm sure plenty of people saw the teddy bears falling from the sky, but who saw him seeing them? Hmmm....