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.

 

"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.

 

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When you do an idiotic thing like that, you can't complain if that happens. :thumbdown

When you do an idiotic thing like that, you can't complain if that happens. :thumbdown

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agreed

the driver probably thought he was being jacked, the idiot deserve it

Haha that is awesome. I guess that guy learned his lesson

Wow. That was a stupid thing to do. He deserved to get shot for being such an idiot.

When you do an idiotic thing like that, you can't complain if that happens.? :thumbdown

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agreed

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I second that. If you run around with what looks like a rifle, and happen to also look like Osama, you're just asking to get shot.

In the US, that driver would be headed for Club Fed.

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and what would be the charge smart guy?

 

shooting somebody that has a mask and a gun in their hands while jumping in front of your car???

 

yea im sure he would go to federal prison ..

 

 

learn the law son.