Crazy usa news - Young man stabbed & decapitated on Greyhound bus - some sick sh*t.

MataЯ

This is nuts. Some terrifying stuff.

A young man travelling on a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg late Wednesday was stabbed to death and then decapitated in what appears to be a random act of violence, witnesses said.

According to passengers on the bus, the victim, between the ages of 18 to 20, was sleeping with his head against the window when the attack occurred.



"He was listening to music when suddenly the person next to him began to stab him in the neck with... a large butcher knife," CTV's Murray Oliver reported Thursday from Winnipeg, Man.



Garnet Caton, who was sitting in front of the victim, heard the commotion and turned around thinking he was going to witness a fight.
Caton told CTV News that once he realized what was going on he screamed: "Stop the bus, somebody's getting stabbed, everyone get the hell off."



The bus driver pulled over on a section of the east-bound Trans-Canada Highway -- about 15 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie, Man -- and many of the 37 passengers began to flee the bus.



Canton gathered a small group of people to go back and help the victim, said Oliver.



"They returned to the back of the bus to find that the person who was stabbing the person in the neck had now sawed off the head of (the victim)."



The man, with the head in one hand and the butcher knife in the other, then tried to attack the other passengers, said Oliver.



The group was able to exit the bus and slammed the door behind them.
The man then stabbed the door with his knife but was unable to break through and get off the bus. Eventually, he attempted to start up the bus to drive away but the operator had hit a switch, disabling the vehicle.



Oliver said a truck driver then arrived at the scene and handed out wrenches and crowbars to several men. The small group gathered around the door to the bus and prevented the man from exiting until police arrived.
RCMP eventually arrested the man after a standoff lasting several hours, said Oliver.



Witnesses said the suspect was tall, large and wearing sunglasses, even though it was dark.



The bus was travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg.



The RCMP and Greyhound officials have confirmed that a "major incident" took place on the bus but few details have officially been released.

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/home/contentposting.aspx?isfa=1&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20080731%2fManitoba_bus_080731&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True

chin_grin

Would make a great horror film. Or could just be a promo for one. Could you imagine! I think I'd sh!t meself. But gotta admit, that's bad-a$$. No matter how f*cked up the attacker was/is.

PurpleBerry

And MataЯ wins by 1 second!

pickarooney

Fail. Winnipeg is in Canada.

Dragan

That is some crazy ****.

Next time i see someone wearing shades at night time i'm gonna punch them pulpy.

mike65

At least my thread is not geographically challanged.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055346530

Mike.

MataЯ

pickarooney wrote: »

Fail. Winnipeg is in Canada.

same thing.

MataЯ

And that crazy guy was probably from America, so it makes it a USA news story.

I win.

MagicMarker

Wow, i was actually thinking of heading over to winnipeg on a greyhound..... I think i'll stay put.

Latchy

That is the sickest **** ever

juvenal

MataЯ wrote: »

same thing.

:rolleyes:

MagicMarker

MataЯ wrote: »

same thing.

You'd get your ass beaten if you said that over here my friend.

I do it myself, always nice to upset the locals, but i'm big guy so no one does anything.

rossie1977

for anyone that has been in a greyhound station or on a greyhound bus this won't come as any major surprise. Some of the characters i have met on greyhounds buses were unique :eek:

The bus stations themselves are located in the crappiest parts of town e.g. in the middle of two ghettos in downtown LA, surrounded by homeless in downtown las vegas (far away from the bright lights and giant hotels of the strip), gang central in oakland

darkman2

Dont let a Canadian see the title of this thread - I mean imagine someone said Ireland was in the British Isles;)

Supercell

darkman2 wrote: »

Dont let a Canadian see the title of this thread - I mean imagine someone said Ireland was in the British Isles;)

You'd go nutz and we'd shrug our shoulders?

FunkZ

**** that is dangerous. It makes you remember how ****ed teh world can be.

Plug

I once cut the head off a jelly baby on the Red setter buses!

Call Me Jimmy

Hey you guys don't even know the facts, maybe the guy asked to be woken when his stop was coming up...

Peyton Manning

If he was listening to his headphones too loudly, and it was ****ing Scooter he was listening to, then I for one salute our beheader friend. Lord knows Ive been tempted to do the same only to discover I had left my machette at home.

Canis Lupus

That's genuinely scary. My god I'd never be able to get on public transport again if I was a passenger on that bus.

andrewie

Hmm.. I usally go asleep when I'm on the bus...

No more!

mike65

Its a 840 mile ride, that could explain it.

Mike

StormWarrior

rossie1977 wrote: »

for anyone that has been in a greyhound station or on a greyhound bus this won't come as any major surprise.

Too true. I have only visited the US once (once was more than enough for me!) but straight from the airport me and my friend had to get on the greyhound bus. The whole bus station was full of huge scary "pimp daddy" types walking around looking really dodgy and the first person who started chatting to us on the bus revealed that he had just been released from prison! Made a bit of a change from my usual trips on the national express where I ususally meet little old ladies.

Call Me Jimmy

Oh an 840 mile ride? Sure ye'd expect at least 1 beheading over that sort of distance.

Kinetic^

Oh man, talk about losing your head over nothing!!

Kavinsky

Joking aside, that is very very scary (if how he chose the victim was completely random). My sympathies are with the victims family and friends.

Captain Ginger

The scumbags on the 145 now don't seem so bad...

impr0v

If I carried a butcher knife with me this would be a regular occurrence on the 65B.

tolosenc

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/horrific-ride/#clip70840

Why is this only the third biggest story on the morning news over here?

R0ot

Here's to never falling asleep on the bus again! :pac:

antodeco

My only concern is what happened when he pulled the head away?

Did the ear phones not re-tract the head back? Maybe he told the guy he was "heading" to winnipeg :pac:

Run_to_da_hills

antodeco wrote: »

My only concern is what happened when he pulled the head away?

Did the ear phones not re-tract the head back? Maybe he told the guy he was "heading" to winnipeg :pac:

The guy that did it was the local headmaster. :pac:

antodeco

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The guy that did it was the local headmaster. :pac:

Maybe the fella asleep was having a durrty dream and shouted out he'd give yer man head!!

Dun laoire

obl wrote: »

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/horrific-ride/#clip70840

Why is this only the third biggest story on the morning news over here?

While the chap being interviewed sounds pretty calm you can see by his eyes that he is traumatised (sp?)

genericgoon

So Highlander is real!:pac:

Manic Moran

I am not as much distressed by the stabbing/beheading, as there are just some nutters out there and there's bugger-all you can do about it. What worries me more is the reaction of the rest of the passengers. Not "Oh my God, he's trying to kill him! Help me stop him!" but "Oh my God, he's trying to kill him! Sucks to be the victim, he's on his own. Let's get out of here!"

NTM

Grudaire

Ok, the guy plans to do something crazy- I mean he has a knife with him on the bus.

Surely he could've worked out how to get off the bus- open the front door, or emergency rear door, or use all that pent up energy to smash one of them escape windows open- not wait till the cops find him, head, knife and body together?

But then again if logic was his strong point...

Steez

I've taken 2 greyhound trips in my time, anyone who's been on them can't not have come across their share of weirdos.
Must be something about the amount of time a person has to actually take one. The most prominent person i can remember was a guy who smelled intensly of pineapple. Unless he had some ****in amazing shampoo, it was just plain odd.
I know it might seem trivial, but he never ate any pineapple the entire time, nor did anything pineapple related.

Yeah, it was a pretty long trip.

antodeco

Steez wrote: »

I've taken 2 greyhound trips in my time, anyone who's been on them can't not have come across their share of weirdos.
Must be something about the amount of time a person has to actually take one. The most prominent person i can remember was a guy who smelled intensly of pineapple. Unless he had some ****in amazing shampoo, it was just plain odd.
I know it might seem trivial, but he never ate any pineapple the entire time, nor did anything pineapple related.

Yeah, it was a pretty long trip.

Did he look like this?

YeatsCounty

Manic Moran wrote: »

What worries me more is the reaction of the rest of the passengers. Not "Oh my God, he's trying to kill him! Help me stop him!" but "Oh my God, he's trying to kill him! Sucks to be the victim, he's on his own. Let's get out of here!"

NTM

Unless you were in that situation, you don't know how you will react. People see a man getting murdered, self-preservation obviously kicked in. The best way to have disarmed the assailant would be to have a group of people tackle him or have an expert in disarming thugs on board.

Run_to_da_hills

YeatsCounty wrote: »

Unless you were in that situation, you don't know how you will react. People see a man getting murdered, self-preservation obviously kicked in. The best way to have disarmed the assailant would be to have a group of people tackle him or have an expert in disarming thugs on board.

Being in America (well almost ) Im surprised that no one had a gun on them to finish this guy off.

Steez

antodeco wrote: »

Did he look like this?

The pants and shirt, yeah. Seems a bit squarer than i remember, but if you can picture a smell, and if spongebob were made out of pineapple, then that's pretty much him.

Manic Moran

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Being in America (well almost ) Im surprised that no one had a gun on them to finish this guy off.

For the record, Greyhound does not permit passengers to bring firearms on its buses.

Then again, it also prohibits people bringing knives...

NTM

utick

well it could have been worse, he could of had a gun.

guuy obviously has mental problems, there are crazys everywhere, sure only last year some guy stabbed someone in a dublin apartment something like 60 times with a garden shears and then told the gardai he was killing the devil

Run_to_da_hills

Manic Moran wrote: »

For the record, Greyhound does not permit passengers to bring firearms on its buses.

Then again, it also prohibits people bringing knives...

NTM

I would have thought the driver would have had something, even a baseball bat under the seat!! reading there is no security screening, so people would have had no probs bringing stuff like hand guns on board. If it was the states Im sure a few people including the driver would have had them

I took the same route from Vancouver to Calgary on the Grayhound a few years ago and the security back then was the same as you would have with taking a CIE bus down the country. People just get on and off with out checks.

Manic Moran

Here's a bit from a different article on the matter.

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said the violent attack is a "horrific" incident and his heart goes to the family of the victim.

However, Mr. Day played down the possibility of enacting tough security measures in Canada's bus terminals, similar to what already exists in airports.

“People should always be open to looking at precautionary measures. But let's keep in mind that as bizarre and tragic as this is, it is extremely rare,” Mr. Day said.

He also dismissed talk by some opposition MPs of a “knife registry,” saying that millions of them are bought each year simply for kitchen use. He added that there are already provisions in the Criminal Code against crimes and assaults.

My God. A politician with some sense. If this had happened in the US, there would be all sorts of calls for regulations to make sure nobody could bring as much as a nail file within a hundred yards of a bus. Knife registry, my arse. The Candians couldn't get a firearm registry to work, can you imagine trying to register knives? "I wish to buy a steak knife." "Sign these three forms, let me see your ID, enter your fingerprint into the computer..."

NTM

beautiation

People who want to do massacres are so incapable these days. I mean 1 out of 35 is pathetic, no matter how cool the mode of death is. The obvious thing to do would be to stab the driver, lock the door, yell out "Now don't go out that there fire escape!" to alert people to the fire escape at the back so they run there instad of charging you, and then pick off the people at the back of the herd trying to escape through the tiny fire escape, provoking a stampede and squashing. Or just drive the bus off a cliff or something, I dunno. Maybe I should start a nightclass. Most of those school shooters could learn a thing or two as well.

elmolesto

This is sick.

Run_to_da_hills

After incidents like this it will force Greyhound into taking new stringent security measures. Airport type security is totally out of the question because the bus service operate in rural territory and expensive xray equipment would be needed. However it will push Canada into copying the United States into introducing their version of the chipped "Real ID" card.

padi89

obl wrote: »

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/horrific-ride/#clip70840

Why is this only the third biggest story on the morning news over here?

What a crazy thing to witness.

the_syco

Oliver said a truck driver then arrived at the scene and handed out wrenches and crowbars to several men. The small group gathered around the door to the bus and prevented the man from exiting until police arrived.

Repect to the truck driver.