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Hayden's wife of 42 years, Katie, who was also on the flight, was less impressed. Even as her husband struggled with the agitated passenger, she barely looked up from "The Richest Man in Babylon," the book she was reading.

"The woman sitting in front of us was very upset and asked me how I could just sit there reading," Katie Hayden said. "Bob's been shot at. He's been stabbed. He's taken knives away. He knows how to handle those situations. I figured he would go up there and step on somebody's neck, and that would be the end of it. I knew how that situation would end. I didn't know how the book would end."

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The robbers walk in and demand money from the lone clerk.
One of the robbers walks up to the old guy eating his Veggie Delight and demands his valuables as well.
Ex-Marine pulls out 500$ and slams it on the table and tells the two guys to fuck off.
The robbers start harrassing the guy and pull him up and start pushing him into the bathroom.
Guy pulls out a gun and shoots one in the head and chest, and while the other is running off, gets a shot off on him as well.

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The Legend passengers were taking a private tour of the town of Limon when three armed men confronted them, the New York Daily News reported.

Passengers said the unidentified former Marine took immediate action, grabbing one of the gunmen and snapping his neck.

"Thank God, he's a hero," said Tony Barry, a New York native who lives in Florida. "Everybody thought it was great what he did."

"It was a horror," Bill Phillips of Long Island told the newspaper. "From the moment I stepped off the ship, I knew it was very dangerous."

Crewmembers reportedly warned passengers about the dangers of the port town, the Daily News said.

"Carnival knew it was a dangerous place, so I don't understand why they even took us there," says Louis Cuglietto, of Paramus, N.J.

No charges were filed against the former Marine, the newspaper said.

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Update: The WSJ just insinuated this video was "funded by a Re-reconqista White Spanish Supremacist group called 'The Sons of Cortez.'"

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Massachusetts lawmakers passed an amendment on Monday expected to save the job of a public high school ROTC instructor who refused to pay teachers
union fees.

State senator Richard R. Tisei introduced legislation last week on behalf of Maj. Stephen L. Godin, a retired Marine and ROTC instructor who was told he'd get the ax if he didn't chalk up a $500 teachers union "agency fee."

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An official with the Massachusetts Teachers Association said state law requires public employees--including teachers at public schools--to join unions as a condition of employment or to pay an agency fee.