{"id":438,"date":"2004-12-16T21:41:09","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T03:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=438"},"modified":"2004-12-16T21:41:09","modified_gmt":"2004-12-17T03:41:09","slug":"taxi-driver-shoots-man-in-bin-laden-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Taxi Driver Shoots Man in bin Laden Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People just freaking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/1214taxi-shooting14-ON.html\">amaze me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Osama bin Laden take note: You wouldn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me and I think for anybody else at a time like that one thinks the worst and so I fired my gun,&#8221; Sandoval told Channel 7 television.<\/p>\n<p>Police declined to detain Sandoval, saying he had believed he was acting in self-defense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Arias is lucky to be alive after this stupidity.  Unfortunately, the human gene pool is not so lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People just freaking amaze me. Osama bin Laden take note: You wouldn&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}