Friday, February 23, 2007

Egads - Don't mess with Grandpa

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA:
Elderly citizens on tour kill potential mugger

A tour group of U.S. elderly citizens fought off a group of muggers in Costa Rica, killing one of the assailants, police said Thursday. The tourists' bus was held up by three men armed with a gun and knife in the Caribbean coastal town of Limon after the group arrived on a cruise ship Wednesday, said Limon police chief Luis Hernandez. Hernandez said a retired U.S. serviceman whom officials estimated was in his 70s put one of the attackers in a headlock and broke his clavicle. After the other two assailants fled, the tourists drove the injured man to the local Red Cross branch, where he was declared dead. Authorities said they did not plan to file charges against the tourists.

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