Taxi Driver Shoots Man in Bin Laden Mask

[arcos]

Taxi Driver Shoots Man in Bin Laden Mask

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - 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.

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http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/world/10415432.htm

[rucky]

1. Darwin Awards?

I'd chalk it up to intelligent design instead, but there's nothing intelligent about either side of the story.

[VegasWolf]

8. No, this should go straight to the Intelligent Design awards. n/t

[Cooley Hurd]

2. I think the bin Laden mask had little to do with the shooting...

The fact that he was waving a rifle and scaring drivers is probably what got him shot.

Dumbass...:crazy:

[aquart]

4. Deservedly so.

Idiot.

[Catherine Vincent]

5. I think that is the case also.

If the idiot had a Bush mask on, he would have still shot him.

[Sabriel]

6. I expect he would've done worse to a Bush mask n/t

[montana_hazeleyes]

3. What the hell

did this dude expect??!!!

[w4rma]

7. A mask and a gun acting like a carjacker would will get you shot. (nt)

[quiet.american]

9. Looks like the joke was on him. Ouch. n/t

[democracy eh]

10. stupid is as stupid does

and this stunt was exceptionally stupid