Israel soldier gets 21 days in prison ... for yawning

[MechAg94]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081112141524.dl833crt&show_article=1

My mother always told me I needed to learn proper manners.  I never considered that they would keep me out of jail.  :D 
Looks like parents everywhere have a new line to use to get kids to mind their manners.  That one about dining with the President or something is getting old. 

   
Israel soldier gets 21 days in prison ... for yawning    
Nov 12 10:15 AM US/Eastern
An Israeli soldier got three weeks in the slammer for yawning during a ceremony this week to mark the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, his mother said.

The concerned woman said her son yawned "without covering his mouth" while the commander of his air force base in the north of the country was speaking during the memorial event Israel held on Monday.

When the commander spotted him, he stopped his speech and later ordered the soldier to spend 21 days in jail for what the commander called his "disrespectful act," the mother told public radio.

Rabin was assassinated in 1995 by a Jewish extremist who opposed the peace process with the Palestinians.

Rabin is revered as a national hero, both for his legendary career as army chief and for peace efforts in the 1990s that earned him a Nobel peace prize shared with now President Shimon Peres and the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.


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[K Frame]

And here I thought he was yawning because he was reading MicroBalrog's messages...

:D

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

which is worse 3 weeks in jail  or your mommy whining in public about it

[MicroBalrog]

The IAF is insane.

They gave similar terms to people convicted of child molestation at one glorious point.