Osama found in CR!

[Guest]

Taxi Driver Shoots Man in Bin Laden Mask

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) -- Osama bin Laden take note: You wouldn't be safe in Costa Rica. A startled taxi driver shot and wounded a jokester wearing a plastic mask of the al-Qaida leader, police said Tuesday.

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 20 miles north of San Jose.

Arias had startled several drivers that way on Monday 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 hospitalized in stable condition.

"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-defense.

[HatchetMan]

Too funny. That dumbass deserved two shots to the stomach. And at 47yo, that's just stoopid!

[888888]

I think the Osama mask is not the issue. Imagine a Latin American taxi driver being surprised by any masked, rifle toting man. He would have gotten shot wearing a Spiderman mask too!

Personally, I think anybody who pulls such "practical jokes" deserves to get their balls stepped on.

[northcat_8]

Hmmm...I wonder if Ol' Leonel Arias there would think that would be a funny practical joke to pull in some place like...say....New York? or how about any US Military Base

What a reject. Even not wearing the mask...jumping out pointing a gun at passers by? And he's 47? Yea, that dumbass deserved to get shot.

[MOVIEGEEK]

He deserves to be taken out of the gene pool...too bad the driver didn't aim higher.

[jimmalenko]

With the vacancy left by Dr Khan, I feel it is my duty to serve the following in his absence:

dumbass