Retired U.S. Tourist in Costa Rica Kills Mugger With Bare Hands

Fox News ^ | 2/23/07 | Associated Press

[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.

[Muzzle_em]

I loved this story! Hope the elderly gentleman realizes he did a good thing.

[300magnum]

Oooo-rah!

[Cuttnhorse]

Having lived in South America for 5-years, this story will cause me to sleep tonight with a smile.

[WV Mountain Mama]

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!

[DainBramage]

Viagra confidence.

[MaryFromMichigan]

"...with his bare hands"

Just like Dick Cheney!

[PurpleMan]

"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?)

[WesternPacific]

an old guy with black socks, sandals and those really oversized glasses with the...

Being retired military, I bet he had an American Flag lapel pin on.

[Muzzle_em]

I'm laughing my head OFF at your description!

[HEY4QDEMS]

Yeah, the first thing that popped into my head was Samantha Brown.

[WV Mountain Mama]

Even better... :)

[CholeraJoe]

Foreigners just dying from the choke holds that Americans won't.

[xcamel]

Really?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789707/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789662/posts

[SJSAMPLE]

Maybe he's a serial killer?

[Egon]

Ping.

[B-Chan]

Whoops... robbed the wrong gringo.

[MortMan]

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.

[DungeonMaster]

I have to show this to my daughters!

[xcamel]

[robertpaulsen]

"Having lived in South America for 5-years ..."

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.

[shekkian]

OK. Where do I get a job as a "US Tourist"? I'd love to be able to retire from that.

I suppose you could get a job with the Travel Channel.

[AnAmericanMother]

LOL! Don't forget the baggy shorts. And they have to be those thin black "Air Force socks" under the sandals.

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.

[PurpleMan]

Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations

His show rocks

[Riptides]

I love bedtime stories with happy endings.

[The FIGHTIN Illini]

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!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

(Who writes these moronic headlines anyhow?)

The meaning was perfectly clear and logically correct. Cut out the nitpicking, please.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The tourists left on their Carnival cruise ship after the incident and Hernandez said authorities do not plan to press any charges against them.

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.

[PurpleMan]

Au contraire...

Expecting correct grammar from journalists in the construction of sentances/cutlines is not "nitpicking."

[TonyRo76]

Excellent!

Another American hero, doing his part to improve the world's lot. I love a happy endings.

[Nathan Zachary]

Wrong tour bus. Those were American tourists, not soft,weak Europeon ones.

[sweetliberty]

But if he's a retired tourist, what was he doing in Costa Rica in the first place.

[Nathan Zachary]

What? No Hawaiian print short sleeve shirt?

[shekkian]

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.

I think "Castle Doctrine" would preclude that.

[rightinthemiddle]

Thanks for posting. I would have missed it.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

You live to point out duplicate threads. Do you get paid to do it?

[gakrak]

...and the morons in congress think our military are under trained? As a vet I can say you never forget your training and you automatically react to these situations. Amen.

[GoldenPup]

BEWARE of Grey Panthers !!! Not everyone with grey hair is defenseless !!!

[JimRed]

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 >

[csvset]

[satan]

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.

[JimRed]

...what was he doing in Costa Rica in the first place.

No extradition treaty with the U.S.?

[xcamel]

Do you pay to use it?

[azhenfud]

"...Don't forget the baggy shorts....."

Used to call 'em "Bermeuder shorts"; you know- the ones with the grey, wheat, white, and black plaid.

[Dick Vomer]

.........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,

I hope Chavez and the other South Americans take note.... Our 70 YEAR OLDS CAN KICK YOUR A$$ES....choke you out and kill you.... bwahahahahahahaha.....70 year old!!!!!

and you asshats want to screw around with our military that has men between the ages of 18 and 35 in the prime of life, full of piss and vinegar.

Hey Chavez, buy some more subs.... that way the sharks can eat you dead.

I love the new term that the media and the libs have found... "asymmetrical warfare".... well the 70 year old had an asymmetrical choke hold on a punk a## b#tch and killed him. take that as a warning. bwahahahahahahahahahahaa

[azhenfud]

Wow! a lot of seniors are killing yoots!

[dmz]

LOL. Do you really have a difficult time with the adjective "retired" modifying "US Tourist".

Please explain your grammatical issues with this construction, as it seems very clear to me.

[Dick Vomer]

the first thing that popped into my head when Samantha Brown popped into your head was.......

[xcamel]

I can't wait to see if the MSM spins this as "Evil senior American GI terminates poor panhandler...."

[AnAmericanMother]

My dad's 82, a WWII combat veteran (N Africa and Italy), and that's exactly how he dresses (although in the winter he wears jeans instead of the Bermuder Shorts).

He's had a little heart trouble and is fighting cancer right now, but I think he could still clean somebody's clock (with the aid of his trust Parker 16 ga. double shotgun, preferably. I don't want him to strain himself.)

[azhenfud]

Don't dare cut the AARP discounts for that guy!

"Just how BIG a senior coffee would ya like?"