I'm giving up my second job as a mugger.

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

U.S. tourists kill mugger, Costa Rica says
> From Times Wire Services

February 23, 2007/LA TIMES

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA — A tour group of U.S. senior citizens killed a
Costa Rican mugger by breaking his neck after he pulled a gun, a local
police official said Thursday.

The cruise ship passengers told police they jumped on Wagner Segura,
20, to defend themselves when he pointed a .38-caliber revolver at
them Wednesday near the Caribbean port of Limon, regional police
director Luis Hernandez said.

One of the dozen tourists, a retired Marine about 70 years old,
reportedly put Segura in a headlock.

"He was probably the one who broke [Segura's] neck," Hernandez said.
"His neck was completely snapped."

The cause of death was not clear. A statement from Carnival Cruise
Lines said the assailant had apparently died of asphyxiation, and some
reports identified the broken bone as the clavicle, not the neck.

No charges will be filed against the tourists because police viewed
the incident as an act of self-defense.

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Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd Wright