Tourists Rout Muggers, Kill One

SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA - A tour bus full of senior citizens on a cruise from Florida were forced to defend themselves against a trio of alleged muggers in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, sending two fleeing and killing the third, said police. Officials for the Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines say the incident occurred on an outing that the tourists had planned on their own. The three assailants were armed with a gun and a knife when they held up the tourists, but fled after a 70-year-old retired military member put one of the 20-year-old suspects into a chokehold and killed him. The tourists were questioned by local police and then released. They have opted to continue their vacation." It doesn't say if any of these tourists had a stun gun or pepper spray, but this story does show that muggers can be defeated, sometimes by a 70-year-old man. (From Florida Today)