Don't mess with senior citizens/retirees...

[Kip Powick]

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica – An American senior citizen killed an alleged mugger with his bare hands, and his travelling companions aboard a tour bus fended off two other assailants in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said.

The American, who is about 70 years old and retired from the military, put the 20-year-old in a head lock and broke his clavicle after the suspect and two other men armed with a knife and gun held up their tour bus, said Luis Hernandez, the police chief of Limon, 80 miles east of San Jose. The suspect, Warner Segura, was later declared dead, apparently from asphyxiation.

The two other men fled when the 12 senior citizens started defending themselves during the Wednesday attack. Afterward, the tourists drove Segura to the Red Cross where he was declared dead. The Red Cross also treated one of the tourists for an anxiety attack, Hernandez said Thursday.

The tourists left on their Carnival cruise ship after the incident and Hernandez said authorities do not plan to press charges against them.

"They were in their right to defend themselves after being held up," he said.

In Canada this would turn into a 3 year litigation fracas and the old fellow would probably get a few years in the slammer for using excessive force. So far the only noteworthy sentence I have seen is the young punk that killed the police officer in Cobourg, ON...about 20 mins from Smallville, got 25 years..no parole..yesterday.