One-Man Crusade to Take Down Bin Laden

Gary Brooks Faulkner, a California construction worker, apparently thought he could pull off something the U.S. military has been unable to accomplish since Sept. 11, 2001: tracking down and killing Osama bin Laden.

Faulkner was detained in Pakistan, and told intelligence officials he was on a one-man mission to take down Bin Laden, the Associated Press reports. They didn't take him too seriously until they realized he was armed with a pistol, a 40-inch sword and night vision equipment, and that he had traveled to Pakistan seven times.