Monday, August 10, 2009
A man has been jailed for yawning 'boisterously' in court.

Judge Daniel Rozak was left seriously unimpressed when Clifton Williams stretched and let out the badly timed yawn just as his cousin's sentence was being handed out for drugs offences.

Williams faces six months in jail for criminal contempt.

Williams's father told St Louis Today: "I was flabbergasted because I didn't realise a judge could do that. It seems to me like a yawn is an involuntary action."

And Williams got further backing from the cousin in question Jason Mayfield, who insisted it was 'not an outrageous yawn'.

But Chuck Pelkie from the state's attorney office told the paper: "It was not a simple yawn - it was a loud and boisterous attempt to disrupt the proceedings."

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Man_jailed_for_yawning&in_article_id=717073&in_page_id=2