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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I suppose you could get a job with the Travel Channel.
Possibly a Hawaiian flowerdy shirt, but not necessarily. Could be a short sleeve Oxford number. If he's retired military, I'd say either the Oxford shirt or a Madras number.
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Sounds like my dad's gitup. As far back as I recall, that has been his outfit of choice for the past 40 years and he's only 70!
The meaning was perfectly clear and logically correct. Cut out the nitpicking, please.
OMG, if he had done that in Louisiana or Floridah, even if he hadn't been charged with a crime, the perp's mother would own his house. God bless Costa Rica.
Au contraire...
Expecting correct grammar from journalists in the construction of sentances/cutlines is not "nitpicking."
Wrong tour bus. Those were American tourists, not soft,weak Europeon ones.
I think "Castle Doctrine" would preclude that.
Thanks for posting. I would have missed it.
You live to point out duplicate threads. Do you get paid to do it?
BEWARE of Grey Panthers !!! Not everyone with grey hair is defenseless !!!
Once you get the upper hand on any assailant, your only option is to render him no longer a threat. Dead, he is no longer a threat; alive, he may pull a gun and shoot you, or recover and hunt you down.
Better tried by 12 than carried by six. Finish the ba$tard off! < /rant >
In a related story the retired member of the U.S. military aged about 70 atated that he would attend the March 17th protest in Washington and hoped to put Jane Fonda in a similar head lock.
"I'll show those wimps at FR how to run a counter-protest" he was quoted as saying.
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