Floridian sicks police on "terrorist" [UPDATED]

"What's that, some kind of foreign licence plate? Yeah, that guy's a terrorist."

That's what Joseph Tarochione thought when he spotted a set of white-and-blue Ontario plates on a car in Florida, apparently.

On January 31, the 73-year-old Homosassa, Florida man dialed police, said he was with the Department of Defense special forces and asked them to inspect a vehicle belonging to a Canadian tourist for bombs, reports News 13.

Tarochione had used his own vehicle to force the Ontario car (not the one pictured; that's a modified stock image) off the road and into the parking lot of a strip club, where he held the, um, suspects until officers arrived.

Problem is, Tarochione is not acually with the Department of Defense. And the tourists were not terrorists. Just Canadians. No bombs. No guns.

That doesn't mean firepower wasn't involved. When police searched Tarochione's car, they found a .22 Magnum handgun, a .22 long rifle revolver, a 16-gauge shotgun and ammunition.

Good thing he didn't try to use any of them during his "arrest." No one was harmed during the incident.

Tarochione was later arrested and jailed for impersonating a law enforcement officer.

UPDATE 04/02/2012: Since he's been released from jail on bond, Tarochione has told a local NBC TV news station that he pulled over the Ontario driver because, he alleges, the tourist was driving erratically, almost hitting a pedestrian and two cars, including his own. Tarochione said he considers such hazardous driving "terrorizing."  Talk about singing a different tune…