Austrian Sentenced for Hitler Voice Mail

[davidinalameda]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/12/22/international/i065731S55.DTL

this my :wtf: post of the day

A man who used an oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler as the greeting for his cell-phone voice mail was sentenced to two months in prison Thursday for the offense, a crime in Austria.


The 20-year-old defendant, whose name was not released because of privacy laws, was convicted by a court in the alpine province of Tyrol, where police accidentally came across his phone message in 2004 when they called to question him about a burglary.


Prosecutors said the man had downloaded the slogan from the Internet and saved it on his cell phone as a message greeting callers when he was unable to answer. It said: "I swear unswerving loyalty to Adolf Hitler! I swear absolute obedience! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"

[mdmc]

1. no crime in that, I' suppose

but I sure won't contribute to a defense fund!

[Bassic]

3. I thknk it is a crime in Austria (and Germany) nt

[Crazy Guggenheim]

4. GMTA!

[Amaya]

5. yes it is

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. As far as I know, that in Austria and Germany you cannot make or have

any public references or displays for Nazism/Fascism. For example you can be arrested for wear a swastika. The way some get around it is they have a "three pronged" symbol instead of the usual swatsika.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. No too smart is he?