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US Tourist Kills Mugger With Bare Hands
tonyrogers.com ^ | Sept 15, 2007 | DancesWithCats

Posted on 09/15/2007 2:30:32 PM PDT by DancesWithCats

February 23, 2007

A US tourist realized a robbery wasn't a joke when a masked robber put a gun to her head and a military veteran in her tour group grabbed the young assailant and killed him with his bare hands.

"I thought it was a skit. But then he pointed the gun at my head and grabbed me by the throat and I thought I was going to die," Clova Adams, 54, told The Associated Press by telephone from the Carnival Liberty cruise ship on Friday, two days after the thwarted robbery.

The assault took place during a ship stopover in Limon, 130 kilometers (80 miles) east of San Jose, Costa Rica's capital.

Hernandez said the man, whom he refused to identify, struggled with the robber, breaking his clavicle and eventually killing him. Police identified the dead assailant as Warner Segura, 20. The other two robbers fled.

The US Embassy confirmed the account, and also refused to release the name of the US tourist who defended the group, citing his right to privacy.

Sergio Lopez, a Red Cross auxiliary, examined Segura's body and said he died from asphyxiation.

Lopez also treated Adams for a panic attack.

Adams was part of a group of 12 American tourists who hired a local driver to explore Costa Rica for a few hours. They were climbing out of the van to a visit a Caribbean beach when three masked men ran toward them. One held a gun to her head, while the other two pulled out knives.

Suddenly, one of the tourists, a US military veteran estimated to be in his 70s, jumped out of the van and put the gunman in a headlock, according to Limon police chief Luis Hernandez.

(Excerpt) Read more at tonyrogers.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: allanclady; costarica; crime; cruise; marines; mugger; selfdefense; seniors; tourist
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To: teenyelliott

Soon, dolly. You should be tucked in already with visions of sugarplums. I’m two hours behind ya.


21 posted on 09/15/2007 9:20:13 PM PDT by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: DancesWithCats

Never mess with an old Marine.


22 posted on 09/15/2007 9:21:50 PM PDT by usmcobra (I sing Karaoke the way it was meant to be sung, drunk, badly and in Japanese)
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To: pissant
Oh yeah. Perhaps I should be in bed.

Gnight. Kiss the little ones for me. They are so cute. /hijack : )

23 posted on 09/15/2007 9:23:10 PM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: VR-21

That is a Warriors Breakfast!

The best!


24 posted on 09/15/2007 9:25:51 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy (Very Proud Dad of LCpl Smoothguy242 USMC of 1/3 Marines, now fighting for freedom, on duty in Iraq.)
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To: usmcobra

The young ones are fairly deadly, too!


25 posted on 09/15/2007 9:26:17 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: teenyelliott

Gnight , Teeny. Will do.


26 posted on 09/15/2007 9:33:57 PM PDT by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: DancesWithCats

Great story, thanks for posting!


27 posted on 09/16/2007 5:58:02 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.vetsforfreedom.org/)
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To: DancesWithCats

“Adams was part of a group of 12 American tourists who hired a local driver to explore Costa Rica for a few hours.”

It is my understanding that this is NOT a good idea.


28 posted on 09/16/2007 7:21:00 AM PDT by L98Fiero (A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
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To: DancesWithCats
Or as Governor Deval Patrick would say, this was “a failure of human beings to understand each other, to learn to love each other.”
29 posted on 09/16/2007 7:28:27 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“What we have here is a failure to communicate.”

(Kerry was saying much the same crapola this morning on one of the news shows ...)


30 posted on 09/16/2007 9:30:08 AM PDT by DancesWithCats
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To: DancesWithCats

bump


31 posted on 09/16/2007 9:33:39 AM PDT by VOA
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To: DancesWithCats
Suddenly, one of the tourists, a US military veteran estimated to be in his 70s,

This guy should start a training course in "self-defense for
senior citizens".

With a DVD or two, he could make some $$$.
32 posted on 09/16/2007 10:25:43 AM PDT by VOA
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To: DancesWithCats

I got to hand it to Costa Rica.
Another sane place like Texas where the authorities don’t screw with
citizens that “take out the trash”.


33 posted on 09/16/2007 10:28:04 AM PDT by VOA
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To: DancesWithCats

“Costa Rican officials interviewed the group, but said they wouldn’t charge
the US tourist with any crime because he acted in self defense.”

And probably they couldn’t find any Costa Rican cops that wanted to
try to take the old guy into custody!


34 posted on 09/16/2007 10:31:13 AM PDT by VOA
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...

Nice work!


35 posted on 09/17/2007 10:44:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, September 12, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

What I like is that the Costa Rican police defended what the heroic vet did and indicated no charges would be pressed since the man acted in self defense. If it had been the police in many (if not most) US communities, the hero would have been booked, put in jail until released on bond, then put on trial with the liberals, the media, “criminal rights” groups, the A-C-damn-L-U, and other assorted slugs howling to the gates of Heaven about the “rights” of the robber being “violated” by the hero.

The USA, and it seems most of Western Europe, way too many places are far more worried about the so-called “rights” of murderers, robbers, illegal aliens, and other assorted low-life than the good folks affected by them. Maybe that is way heros seem so few and in between. Here, if someone did that, our media and so-called “justice system” would make the hero out to be the bad guy.


36 posted on 09/17/2007 11:11:08 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (Hunter and Tancredo in '08! La Raza - the PLO of the Western Hemisphere)
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To: Convert from ECUSA

And don’t forget — he would have spent a sleepless night in the jail cell, fighting off even more thugs.


37 posted on 09/17/2007 11:25:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, September 12, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: DancesWithCats
Suddenly, one of the tourists, a US military veteran estimated to be in his 70s, jumped out of the van and put the gunman in a headlock, according to Limon police chief Luis Hernandez.

Buy that man a TALL one.

38 posted on 09/17/2007 11:27:48 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: SunkenCiv; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; Marine_Uncle

Incredible....


39 posted on 09/17/2007 11:48:40 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: DancesWithCats

BUMP for publicity


40 posted on 09/17/2007 11:50:23 AM PDT by VOA
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