Oh my freakin' word.
Holy crap! What a bizarre story. But, being the sick bastage that I am, I had to laugh at "When we saw the head, we knew he was dead".
"when we saw the head, we knew he was dead"
Sorry....a bit obvious, maybe?
That is some nasty savage shit!
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]Don't forget to start your day with a nutritious breakfast!
When you leave your mouse over a topic, the first couple of sentences appear. Well, smileys show up as words like so it had the URL of the story and eek eek eek. I had the Psycho tune in my head from the infamous shower scene. That's just crazy though. I mean, waving the poor guy's head around? That knife had to be hella sharp to get through the vertabrae.
WTF!!!? Wow.
Did he look like a baby seal?
Stay in Drugs. Eat your School. Don't do Vegetables.
Imagine being one of the horrified onlookers of this tragedy. What the hell is wrong with the human race?...seems like people are "snapping" everywhere. Better get that pepper spray!
A passenger repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a young man aboard a Greyhound bus travelling through Manitoba overnight in what appears to be a random attack, a witness said Thursday.
The RCMP would not confirm the reports, only saying that a "major incident" took place late Wednesday evening on the bus as it drove along the Trans-Canada Highway en route to Winnipeg from Edmonton.
A man was taken into custody after an hours-long standoff with police ended around 1 a.m. near Portage la Prairie, a city about 85 kilometres west of Winnipeg, according to reports.
Passenger Garnet Caton, who was sitting in the seat in front of the victim, told CBC News in gruesome detail how he saw the attacker stab his seatmate, a young man sleeping with his headphones on.
Caton said he heard a "blood-curdling scream" and turned around to see the attacker holding a large "Rambo" hunting knife above the victim, "continually stabbing him in the chest area."
"He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times," said Caton.
As panicked passengers fled the bus, "the attacker was over top of the victim â?¦ continually cutting him. I think the victim was gone at that point," Caton said.
Trio tried to check on victim
Caton, the driver and a trucker who had stopped at the scene later boarded the vehicle to see if the victim was still alive.
"When we came back on the bus, it was visible at the end of the bus he was cutting the guy's head off and pretty much gutting him up," said Caton.
The attacker ran at them, Caton said, and they ran out of the bus, holding the door shut as he tried to slash at the trio.
When the attacker tried to drive the bus away, the driver disabled the vehicle, Caton said.
"While we were watching the door, he calmly walks up to the front with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us," said Caton.
Acted 'like he was a robot'
Caton described the attacker as surprisingly calm. "It was like he was at the beach or something. There was no rage in him. He wasn't swearing or cursing or anything. It was just like he was a robot or something."
Police cruisers arrived about 10 minutes after the attack began, he estimates, and officers began directing passengers to school buses to take them to a hotel in Brandon.
"While we were waiting on the side of the road, [the attacker] was taunting the police with the head in his hand," said Caton.
Caton described the attacker as appearing "totally normal" earlier in the journey, even chatting with a young woman as he smoked a cigarette during a break.
But when he got back on the bus, he moved his belongings from the front to a seat beside the victim in the back and about 20 minutes later began attacking the man, said Caton. "He didn't say anything to the victim at all," said Caton.
'Pretty traumatic'
A six-year-old and other children were among the passengers who saw the horrific incident unfold, said Caton.
"It was pretty traumatic," he said, adding that some passengers said they have been unable to sleep or eat since it happened.
A chaplain and crisis team were on hand to counsel passengers at the hotel, he said.
Officers were still at the scene early Thursday and brought portable search lights to examine the bus, the CBC's Sean Kavanagh reported. Traffic was being rerouted to a side road.
Abby Wambaugh, media relations spokeswoman for Greyhound Canada, said there were 37 passengers and a driver aboard the bus.
She would not comment on what happened on the bus.
"I don't want to compromise the investigation, so any details need to be confirmed by the police," she said.
That sounds really crazy to be random. They don't check for weapons on buses? I don't like the idea of buses anyway.
The poor kids who saw this.
that is just horrid~ i would have been one of the passengers puking~
We had an incident aboard a prison transport bus here in Maryland a while back. This one prisoner turned out to be violently insane, grabbed another prisoner and strangled him! The victim was just a 22/23 year old, trying to serve out his time and stay out of trouble. His family is beyond upset that this dangerous person was in the general prison population, and especially angry the guards were sitting up front talking while this kid was getting murdered!
That is insane, I hope they let us know his reasoning.
Not even a Greyhound bus is safe now a days. I guess psychos can show up anywhere.
Haven't I seen this thread before somewhere?
There wasn't a date, I had assumed it just happened.
Yes they can. Just think how vulnerable you are on a bus or a plane. There's no place to escape should your seatmate turn out to be a psycho.
Did they kill the guy or take him into custody?
Overreact much?
This thing is just hours old, and now the federal fucking government is getting into it. C'mon guys. Surely you've got better things to do?
Day-Bus-Stabbing
INDEX:Justice, Politics, Social
Day decries bus stabbing as one-of-a-kind in Canadian history
LEVIS, Que. - Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day is expressing
shock at what he calls a `horrific' bus stabbing that he's calling
one-of-a-kind in Canadian history.
Day was reacting to what witnesses say was a savage knife attack
on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba that resulted in a person being
killed and later beheaded.
Day, in Levis, Que., for a summer planning session of
Conservative MPs, says the full weight of the law must be brought to
bear on the perpetrator.
But he says such an incident is, thankfully, extremely rare - in
fact he's calling it `probably one-of-a-kind in Canadian history.'
Day says he wouldn't even entertain the notion of registering
knives as dangerous weapons, noting that millions of kitchen knives
alone are likely sold each year.
(The Canadian Press)
11:37ET 31-07-08
One of a kind. As opposed to other generic canadian beheadings? This one had that special quality not often found
Lol ...This is just embarasssing. I should never post anything from the federal government...
Anyway, here's a bit of an update, with a little bit of video on the same page. http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/470342
That's pretty wild!
Now that video was very unfair, Where's the head? I'm feeling bloodthirsty today, I wanted to se him put on his little window puppet show
how horrible for the people that had to see that (and of course the victim)...I will just stick to my mini-van ...dammit can't fly, sail and now no buses....sigh
Damn, I thought we were going to see *stuff*. I for one would have been filming like mad.
Thats absolutely horrific! I feel bad for the kids especially.
But...I'm glad I'm not the only one going to Hell for laughing at "When we saw the head, we knew he was dead". Um, yeah...ya think!?
This line made me LOL:
"Day says he wouldn't even entertain the notion of registering
knives as dangerous weapons, noting that millions of kitchen knives
alone are likely sold each year."
Thanks for makin' note of that, pal.
Insanity!
I think its really neat listening to Canadians talk. That guy being interviewed was all like.."A-boot this and A-boot that.." Great accent. Accents are really cool.
Here's some video that's marked with a "graphic content" warning.
((I didn't bother to watch it. "Graphic content" to the CBC means people say things like "dam" and in really bad situations "hell" ))
http://www.cbc.ca/news/?refresh
WOW!! That is weird and tragic beyond words. The article did ramble on a bit though, I thought.
The Police " Come out of the bus with your heads up"
He had every intention of getting off the bus, but the passengers wouldn't let him.
Even when he gave them a head's up.
Were the earphones still on, That would be make it a One of a kind beheading
we as death hags need to promise one another, that if we ever come across any craziness or gore, that we will promise to take pics or video for sharing............
that "graphic content" was sooooo boring........... I wanted to see pics!!
I didnt see a damn thing as far as blood or guts or heads. I hope they release more footage.
This Is Horrible!!!!! i feel like i never want to leave my house again! EEEKKKK....then again, someone will just come in my house and decapitate me, you just cant win!
The bus driver should have slammed on the breaks. If the guy was sitting, his head would have hit the seat in front of him, and if he was standing he would have went flying.
I wonder what made the guy snap... who wakes up and decides that they are going to go and behead a random citizen on a bus?
I just feel sorry for the poor kids that had to see that.