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Taxi Driver Shoots Man in Bin Laden Mask

Neehai Zapata
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Join date: 8 Apr 2004
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12-14-2004 13:14
haha! How much is Bin Laden worth these days? Idiot.

And who the hell makes a Bin Laden mask anyway?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&u=/ap/20041214/ap_on_fe_st/costa_rica_bin_laden_mask_1&printer=1
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Xtopherxaos Ixtab
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12-14-2004 13:15
http://www.partypants.fsnet.co.uk/masks/mask-osama-bin-laden.htm
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Lance LeFay
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12-14-2004 18:34
How do you NOT see that that is a mask?
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Reitsuki Kojima
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Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,328
12-14-2004 19:17
From: The Yahoo Article
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


Somehow, I think the Bin Laden mask was probably absolutely inconsequential.

Guy was wearing a mask (Doesn't matter /what/ mask. Any mask).

Guy was brandishing a weapon (Many pellet rifles look very much like a real gun, so the fact that it was 'only' a pellet gun isn't relevent)

Guy jumps out at people to scare them.

Guy gets shot.

Sounds like Darwinism at its finest...
Hiro Pendragon
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Join date: 22 Jan 2004
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12-14-2004 21:16
From: Reitsuki Kojima
Somehow, I think the Bin Laden mask was probably absolutely inconsequential.

Guy was wearing a mask (Doesn't matter /what/ mask. Any mask).

Guy was brandishing a weapon (Many pellet rifles look very much like a real gun, so the fact that it was 'only' a pellet gun isn't relevent)

Guy jumps out at people to scare them.

Guy gets shot.

Sounds like Darwinism at its finest...

Reitsuki, I totally agree. This one screams Darwin Award candidate.

Plenty of cops have shot people toting toy guns that looked like real guns (that's why there are laws requiring bright colors on toy guys) - and the cops are trained to know when to shoot.
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Reitsuki Kojima
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Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 5,328
12-15-2004 03:51
No, unfortunatly since the guy didn't actually /die/ of his own stupidity, he isn't a canidate for a Darwin Award... His bad genes weren't removed from the breeding pool.

The only living recipiant of a darwin award managed to somehow castrate himself by his own stupidity, which was almost as effective. I forget the circumstances behind that one, though.
Issarlk Chatnoir
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Join date: 3 Oct 2004
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12-15-2004 04:47
All is not lost ; maybe he'll try again with a Saddam Hussein mask next ?
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Xtopherxaos Ixtab
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Join date: 7 Oct 2004
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12-15-2004 06:02
47 years old, jumping out in traffic with a pellet gun....I think mental illness is the predominate factor.
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Reitsuki Kojima
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12-15-2004 11:27
From: Xtopherxaos Ixtab
47 years old, jumping out in traffic with a pellet gun....I think mental illness is the predominate factor.


Never attribute to mental illness what common, every day asshattery can explain.
Xtopherxaos Ixtab
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12-15-2004 13:47
From: Reitsuki Kojima
Never attribute to mental illness what common, every day asshattery can explain.


*sigh* True...very true.
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Eggy Lippmann
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Join date: 1 May 2003
Posts: 7,939
12-16-2004 03:01
And this is why people shouldnt carry firearms.