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Senior Citizens Defend Their Lives - Would-Be Assailant Dies

FROM A 2007 ARTICLE (note the mention of the 70-year-old Marine - once a Marine, always a Marine, right?):


U.S. tourists kill mugger, Costa Rica says
February 23, 2007|From Times Wire Services


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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Are You The Ultimate Disneyland Fan?

Disneyland is the original Disney theme park, which is located in Anaheim, California.

The magic all began here where Mickey and Minnie walked Main Street and into Sleeping Beauty's castle upon the park's grand opening.

Throughout the years, Disneyland has evolved into one of the biggest vacation destinations in U.S history, with millions of people flying and driving to this iconic California landmark.

Are you familiar with Disneyland? Do you consider yourself a Disney Fanatic? If so, prove your knowledge by aceing THIS QUIZ! (Goofy expects you to!)

The Best Vacations for Senior Citizens

Here are some helpful resources for vacation planning:

Best Senior Travel Websites 

The Best Vacations for Single Senior Citizens 

Senior Citizen Travel & Vacations from Senior Journal 

Hot Vacation Spots for Senior Citizens 

Senior Discounts on Airlines

Tours and Cruises for Single Seniors 

Useful Website: Roadtrip America

ROADTRIP AMERICA WEBSITE HERE

I don't normally recommend travel or trip planning or hotel/motel websites not because they're necessarily evil, but because they mainly exist ONLY to sell their product(s) (whether or not they aregenuinely useful to you) and if you want to go motel-shopping orticket-buying, you can find all the main websites for that on Google orAltaVista or Yahoo.

Anyway... I came across a nifty little website that actually seems like several websites under one banner, all of them seemingly useful and/or entertaining. It's called "Roadtrip America" and from their main homepage, you can navigate to such topics as Routes, Destinations, Events or Preparation Tips or Carefully Selected Links to the Best Web Resources or Snackin' Better on the Road or Personal Trip Journals or Fuel Cost Calculator or RoadTrip Recipes orRoadside Eateries (don't miss the fun photo tour of historic diners) orRoadside Wonders or Scenic Drives or Trains & Railroads or Roadside Americana or Funny Road Signs or RoadTrip Gear: Articles & Product Reviews and a whole lot of other actually useful information.

If you still have a hankering for luxury accomodations and travelling in extremely wealthy style and you have the pocketbook to accomodate it, you can always check out the Forbes website.

Burma Shave Signs

Remember those family vacations going down some highway somewhere and out of nowhere, the signs would start to pop up. First one, then the next... until you had a full funny poem that always ended with the last line, "Burma Shave," the shaving cream company who sponsored the road signs.


Now you can relive some of those fond family vacation memories by visiting THIS WEBPAGE to view their collection of old Burma Shave poems. Here's just one to get you started:

Listen Birds

These Signs Cost Money

So Sit A Spell

But Don't Get Funny

Burma Shave