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Osama Bin Laden Take Note: You Wouldn't Be Safe In Costa Rica. |
2004-12-14 |
A startled taxi driver shot and wounded a jokester wearing a plastic mask of the al-Qaeda leader, police said today. Leonel Arias, 47, told police he was playing a practical joke by donning the bin Laden mask, toting his pellet rifle and jumping out to scare drivers on a narrow street in his hometown, Carrizal de Alajuela, about 35 kilometres north of San Jose. Arias had startled several drivers that way yesterday afternoon. But when he jumped out in front of taxi driver Juan Pablo Sandoval, the motorist reached for a gun and shot him twice in the stomach. He was taken to hospital, where his condition was described as stable. "For me and I think for anybody else at a time like that one thinks the worst and so I fired my gun," Sandoval told Channel 7 television. Police declined to detain Sandoval, saying he had believed he was acting in self-defence. |
Posted by:God Save The World |
#8 "What a revolting development this is!" |
Posted by: Steve 2004-12-14 8:55:56 PM |
#7 Groucho bin Laden -- LOL! |
Posted by: VRWconspiracy 2004-12-14 8:25:12 PM |
#6 Osama-bin-idiot is lucky it wasn't two chest shots. |
Posted by: Tom 2004-12-14 8:02:48 PM |
#5 Credit to the cops who declined to charge him... |
Posted by: Seafarious 2004-12-14 4:11:44 PM |
#4 He did but what any armoed, law abiding citizen would do. Yes! |
Posted by: Mac Suirtain 2004-12-14 4:10:25 PM |
#3 To dress up as someone with a $25M reward on their head dead or alive is to enter the lists of the Darwin Award candidates. |
Posted by: RWV 2004-12-14 4:06:03 PM |
#2 Green Card! |
Posted by: Shipman 2004-12-14 3:56:50 PM |
#1 I highly suspect the mask had nothing to do with him being shot. |
Posted by: Rafael 2004-12-14 3:56:22 PM |