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

  • 31-07-2008 05:06PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37


    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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭PurpleBerry


    And MataЯ wins by 1 second!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Fail. Winnipeg is in Canada.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Dragan


    That is some crazy ****.

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    At least my thread is not geographically challanged.

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

    Mike.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37 MataЯ


    Fail. Winnipeg is in Canada.

    same thing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37 MataЯ


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

    I win.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    That is the sickest **** ever


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭juvenal


    MataЯ wrote: »
    same thing.


    :rolleyes:


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭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. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,451 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,632 ✭✭✭darkman2


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,669 ✭✭✭✭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?

    Have a weather station?, why not join the Ireland Weather Network - http://irelandweather.eu/



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭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...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,658 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 631 ✭✭✭andrewie


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

    No more!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Its a 840 mile ride, that could explain it.

    Mike


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭Call Me Jimmy


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 95 ✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Captain Ginger


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,643 ✭✭✭impr0v


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,889 ✭✭✭tolosenc


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

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,473 ✭✭✭R0ot


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


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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭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:


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