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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Man fined for offending Muslims by yodelling

From the "Get over yourself why don't you" Department:

An Austrian man has been fined for yodeling while mowing his lawn. Helmut G. was told by a court in Graz, Styria, that his yodeling offended his next-door Muslim neighbors.

The men reportedly accused the 63-year-old of having tried to mock and imitate the call of the Muezzin. The man was fined 800 Euros after judges ruled he could have tried to offend them and ridicule their belief.


The Muslims, whose nationalities were not revealed, were right in the middle of a prayer when the Austrian started to yodel.

"It was not my intention to imitate or insult them. I simply started to yodel a few tunes because I was in such a good mood" he said.

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