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Man decapitated on Canadian bus..What a crazy world we live in..

A man on a Greyhound bus travelling across the Canadian Prairies has killed and decapitated a fellow passenger.

An eyewitness said the victim was stabbed 50 or 60 times by the man sitting next to him, who then severed his head with a large knife.

The bus made an emergency stop to allow passengers to escape and the driver barred the door from the outside while waiting for the police to arrive.

The bus was travelling from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Greyhound Canada said there were 37 passengers and a driver aboard the bus.

"All of a sudden, we all heard this scream, this bloodcurdling scream," passenger Garnet Caton told CBC television.

"The attacker was standing up right over the top of the guy with a large hunting knife - a survival, Rambo knife - holding the guy and continually stabbing him... in the chest area," Mr Caton added.

'Like a robot'

The attack continued as passengers fled the bus and waited for police on a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.

"He calmly walks up to the front [of the bus] with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us," Mr Caton said.

"There was no rage in him ... It was just like he was a robot or something," he added.

A man was taken into custody by police at around 0100 (0700 GMT) on Wednesday night, according to reports.

Mr Caton said he and a truck driver helped the bus driver bar the bus door to prevent the attacker from leaving.

When the attacker tried to drive the bus away, the driver disabled the vehicle.

"Some people were puking, some people were crying, other people were in shock ... everybody was running, screaming off the bus," Mr Caton said.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said only that a "major incident" took place on the bus as it drove along the Trans-Canada Highway en route to Winnipeg from Edmonton.

Other passengers said that the attacker and his victim were sitting at the back of the bus and the victim, described as around 20 years old, was listening to music through headphones.

The attack appeared to be unprovoked and it is thought the killer did not know his victim.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7535840.stm

By paulr on Jul 31, 2008, 13:01 in Off Topic.

paulr says on Jul 31, 2008, 13:47:

Greyhound buses are notorious for crazy stuff happening but in Canada?

"paulr threatens me with death !" pobrecito

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guacharaca says on Jul 31, 2008, 14:34:

Don´t piss a Canadian off.

Colombianos: Las armas os han dado independencia, las leyes os daran libertad. (Santander)

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tejasmarcos says on Jul 31, 2008, 14:47:

revelations...

trying to walk a straight line on sour mash and cheap wine...

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webmanco says on Jul 31, 2008, 15:45:

of the guy with a large hunting knife - a survival, Rambo knife

Maybe without even doing nothing to piss him/her off. A few crazy canadians.

There goes another Rambo wanna be

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papiChulo says on Jul 31, 2008, 16:31:

And you guys say Canada is boring... geez.

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billyb says on Jul 31, 2008, 19:33:

jaja, I guess not. What did they do, trade away his favorite hockey player? I wonder if he gave the victim burundanga first?

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papiChulo says on Jul 31, 2008, 21:12:

billyb.... yea maybe there has been a few trades lately.

paulr... traveling by bus in Canada is for skids only.

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Man Tequila says on Jul 31, 2008, 22:19:

The guy was clearly nuts, but this is a horrible story. I think Rubito is from Winnipeg, wonder his thoughts.

Aunque no me creas/ si me lo propongo/ lograre olvidarte/ porque a fin de cuentas/ no soy tan cobarde./ Y termino todo una de estas tardes/ no sera dificil buscar algún sitio donde refugiarme/ donde nunca mas vuelvas a encontrarme. (Polo Montañez)

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billyb says on Jul 31, 2008, 22:25:

I wonder if he was in Canada this past week.

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papiChulo says on Jul 31, 2008, 23:33:

witness' said he was a big guy maybe 6'5" 250lb.... does that sound like rubito?

oy billyb... sent ya a PM mate.

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papiChulo says on Aug 1, 2008, 01:45:

forgot to say the most disturbing thing was he proceded to dress/gut his kill... weird shit indeed.

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dwmte7 says on Aug 1, 2008, 06:02:

was he an islamic radical?

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papiChulo says on Aug 1, 2008, 09:56:

nope he's asian cdn I think... morph you don't know shit about canada laws... he'll be in for the rest of his life... ie; at her majesty’s (sp) pleasure…which means till you die… that’s what crazies get here

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papiChulo says on Aug 1, 2008, 10:06:

sorry I edited that... he's asian cdn... LDW... piss off with the anti islamic shit... are you some kinda xenophobe?

they guy is clearly insane... nothing more

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papiChulo says on Aug 1, 2008, 10:31:

yeah ok... but what about him dressin/gutting his kill? is that their MO as well?

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papiChulo says on Aug 1, 2008, 10:32:

nice biggoted remark on the 1st nations ppl "Wine is very popular with a lot of natives in Canada."
class act

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papiChulo says on Aug 1, 2008, 11:32:

LDW... have you read my comments...? I said he was dressed and gutted... another product of mediocre canadain schooling I guess.

while your sterotyping you left out the newfies.

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papiChulo says on Aug 1, 2008, 13:12:

LDW... you wouldn't happen to be an anglo Quebeker would you?

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papiChulo says on Aug 1, 2008, 13:39:

of course I would so... you are one?

just got to chash in me empties now by' answer me bloody question and stop being a gear box...;)

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papiChulo says on Aug 1, 2008, 16:04:

LDW... you were the 1st to sterotype muslims o no? look at your 1st post on this ok.

and wots is gunna happen if I do sterotype Anglo Quebekers... gunna insult me? tell me a newfie joke that I heard 20yrs ago as a Irish/Polish joke? golly thats not nice.

So... why do you evade the Q. Are you an anglo Quebeker? Keep it to yerself mate... I don't give I flying fuk... you evading the Q speaks volume.

"nothing more" means... end/end of story... guess your not anglo afterall soooory... :P

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papiChulo says on Aug 1, 2008, 16:53:

thanks for taking the time LDW but I dont read long boring posts... paz

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papiChulo says on Aug 1, 2008, 17:59:

LDW... you'll keep mate.... you'll keep

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Robert Jorge says on Aug 1, 2008, 19:43:

All I know is: Thank God Canadians aren't allowed to carry concealed weapons. The victim probably would have still died (stabbed 40 times). But, if there was someone armed on the bus, at least the attacker would have been dispatched and maybe the victim would have had a slight chance? I heard the murderer even walked up to the door holding the severed head.

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billyb says on Aug 1, 2008, 20:13:

All i know is that I would now feel safer taking a night bus from cali to pasto than taking a daytime one from Vancouver to Calgary ;) Do they aslo do pescas milagrosas on canadian roads?

"All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I never go there" Unkown (at least to me) wise man.

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papiChulo says on Aug 2, 2008, 22:11:

guys greyhound busses has long transported anything illegal mostly drugs w/ couriers... any cdn that doesn't know this needs to get their heads surgically removed from their arses. wot surprises me is this shit don't happen every month in Canada... but I'm sure nothing will change much in the worlds most apathetic country.

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Man Tequila says on Aug 3, 2008, 11:35:

French Quebeckers love their wine. Some of the working class types drink more beer than wine, but most professionals do not.

I try not to ride the Greyhound, but have done so maybe twice in the last ten years. The other passengers were less squirrely than I would have guessed, and I escaped without stab marks.

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Man Tequila says on Aug 6, 2008, 23:11:

I took a bus from Vancouver to Penticton and will not be repeating the experience soon despite the beauty of the landscape.

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papiChulo says on Aug 7, 2008, 13:30:

sizas LDW... ;)

anyhow I thought you were having a go at the pepsis & muslims and I didn't think that was fair... in future I'll avoivd political and religous discussions.... I aviod the politics and war section on PBH like the plague(sp).

on a lighter not... with the price of groceries these days... I might have to turn canibal (joke)

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papiChulo says on Aug 7, 2008, 18:01:

LDW... if you want a fight... stick ur head up ur arse and fight for air.

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papiChulo says on Aug 7, 2008, 19:27:

like I said before... you'll keep and your little friend too... adios.

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houstongal (Trustee board) says on Aug 8, 2008, 09:21:

I heard this on the radio the other day:

Greyhound has scrapped an advertising campaign that extolled the relaxing effects of bus travel after a passenger was accused of repeatedly stabbing and then beheading a traveler in the next seat while their bus was on a desolate stretch of highway in Manitoba last week.

The ad's tag line was "There's a reason you've never heard of 'bus rage.'

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billyb says on Aug 9, 2008, 00:14:

i saw that also, talk about bad timing. And BTW, don't they know how volatile the canadians can be?

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houstongal (Trustee board) says on Aug 9, 2008, 17:01:

I guess the US invents road rage, Canada invents bus rage!

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dwmte7 says on Aug 11, 2008, 13:59:

that incident gives new meaning to gettin a little head....or, getting a head start on the day.

patriarch

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houstongal (Trustee board) says on Aug 11, 2008, 22:26:

oh boo douglas!

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dwmte7 says on Aug 12, 2008, 05:11:

you're right HG...and i do apologize.

patriarch

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