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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.

Fairportfan wrote:He's lucky. In North Korea, Dear Leader Jr would have had him shot.

ShneekeyTheLost wrote:

Fairportfan wrote:He's lucky. In North Korea, Dear Leader Jr would have had him shot.

North Korea would have shot the planes down long before they crossed the border on general principle anyways, so he likely wouldn't have even been involved in that case.

Also, how does a border guard stop an airplane anyways, does he have a SAM launcher at his duty post?