Just like Dick Cheney!
Posted on 02/23/2007 5:19:20 AM PST by Muzzle_em
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — An American senior citizen killed an alleged mugger with his bare hands, and his traveling companions aboard a tour bus fended of two other assailants in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said.
A retired member of the U.S. military aged about 70 put suspect Warner Segura in a head lock and broke his clavicle after the 20-year-old and two other men armed with a knife and gun held up their tour bus, Luis Hernandez, the police chief of Limon, 80 miles east of San Jose, said Thursday. Segura was later declared dead, apparently from asphyxiation.
The two other men fled when the 12 senior citizens started defending themselves during the Wednesday attack. Afterward, the tourists drove Segura to the Red Cross where he was declared dead. The Red Cross also treated one of the tourists for an anxiety attack, Hernandez said.
The tourists left on their Carnival cruise ship after the incident and Hernandez said authorities do not plan to press any charges against them.
"They were in their right to defend themselves after being held up," he said.
Hernandez said Segura had previous charges against him for assaults.
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Oooo-rah!
Having lived in South America for 5-years, this story will cause me to sleep tonight with a smile.
Someone died and I can't stop laughing! I keep picturing an old guy with black socks, sandals and those really oversized glasses with the dark lenses that flip up and down choking a guy who thought they would be easy targets!
Viagra confidence.
"Retired US tourist"
OK. Where do I get a job as a "US Tourist"? I'd love to be able to retire from that.
(Who writes these moronic headlines anyhow?)
Being retired military, I bet he had an American Flag lapel pin on.
I'm laughing my head OFF at your description!
Yeah, the first thing that popped into my head was Samantha Brown.
Even better... :)
Foreigners just dying from the choke holds that Americans won't.
Really?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789707/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789662/posts
Maybe he's a serial killer?
Ping.
Whoops... robbed the wrong gringo.
Somehow I knew that the gentleman was ex-military. Even if it was long ago...
Kudos, and my best wishes for his health and safety.
I have to show this to my daughters!
Costa Rica is Central America, isn't it?
Anyways, travelling the back roads in Guatemala, our driver informed us that we may be "robbed" by "armed" locals and that we should hide our money and valuables, leaving a few dollars in our pockets to turn over to them if stopped. Nobody gets excited, nobody gets hurt. (We weren't stopped).
I wonder if that was the case here and someone forget to tell the tourists what was going on.
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