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Taxi Driver Shoots Man in Bin Laden Mask

Tue Dec 14, 3:03 PM ET

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) 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.

Yeah, and Arias gets a "Darwin Award"!<img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>

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LOL....nice shot cabbie.

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What an idiot, (and 30mike-mike your right definite darwin award canidate!)if you dress up as a terrorist and are attemption to scare cars you have to expect to get shot or beat! <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

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-Friedrich Nietzsche-

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i dont think he would get a darwin award coz he aint dead but an honourable mention would be good <img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>

the object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his