{"id":324,"date":"2007-02-24T06:55:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T14:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2007-02-24T06:55:20","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T14:55:20","slug":"rambo-takes-a-cruise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/24\/rambo-takes-a-cruise\/","title":{"rendered":"Rambo takes a cruise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nDuring a stop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/cs.html\">Costa Rica<\/a> by a cruise ship, several passengers banded together to rent a van and get a guided tour of the sights. At a stop in the tour, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070223\/ap_on_re_la_am_ca\/costa_rica_tourist_mugging\">three masked men brandished knives and guns attempting to hold up a female passenger<\/a> at which time a 70 year-old military veteran grabbed one of the attackers, and subdued him (well, more accurately, killed him with his bare hands.) The other two attackers fled and after a short time to straighten things out with the local officials, the passengers were allowed back on the ship as the incident was clearly self-defense.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAside from one attacker, no one else was harmed, though the female passenger was shaken up. This sounds too bizarre to be real&#8230;I&#8217;m going to guess that would-be thieves in Costa Rica think twice about future tourist holdups.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nIf you liked this entry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=324&#038;phase=2\">Digg It!<\/a><br \/>\nTune: <a href=\"https:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=310019&#038;s=143441&#038;i=310015\">Waiting for my Ruca<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sublime_(band)\">Sublime<\/a><br \/>\nTechnorati Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/rambo\" rel=\"tag\">Rambo<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/robbery\" rel=\"tag\">Robbery<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/self+defense\" rel=\"tag\">Self Defense<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/mike+harding+blog\">Mike Harding Blog<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a stop in Costa Rica by a cruise ship, several passengers banded together to rent a van and get a guided tour of the sights. At a stop in the tour, three masked men brandished knives and guns attempting to hold up a female passenger at which time a 70 year-old military veteran grabbed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}