12.14.2004

Taxi Driver Shoots Man in Bin Laden Mask

Practical jokes not to play on Costa Rican taxi drivers.

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.