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wakeyboy · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject: OMG this is horrific!

A man repeatedly stabbed the passenger next to him and then decapitated him on a crowded Greyhound bus travelling from Edmonton to Winniped in Canada!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7535840.stm

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.

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.
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wakeyboy · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 12:03 am Post subject:

The accused appears in court and the victim is named by friends and family, although the police have not officially identified him...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7538398.stm
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Vintage Girl · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 12:58 pm Post subject:

How the bloody hell can it be 2nd degree murder?
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SilverMiniCooperS · Inmate of the Asylum Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 195

Apparently it's only second degree murder because it was not premeditated.

kitchenwitch · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 3:27 am Post subject:

*****NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH********

It gets worse. Apparently he was eating parts of the victim.
I can't imagine; it's like a real life horror movie.
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Vintage Girl · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:33 am Post subject:

Do they think it's some bizarre satanic ritual or just a crazy sicko?
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kitchenwitch · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:24 pm Post subject:

From what I read he was a normal well behaved person who just suddenly lost his mind. Of course he might have a whole closet full of this kind of behavior and it hasn't come to light yet.

This is the article here.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CANADA_BUS_STABBING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-08-02-19-43-07
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Vintage Girl · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject:

It's very bizarre....makes no sense at all.
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muppetmurderer · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:34 pm Post subject:

I think it was probably all due to the fact that its a long way from Edmonton to Winnipeg and Greyhound Buses don't have a buffet trolley.... We've all felt peckish on a long journey haven't we? (or is it just me?)
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wakeyboy · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject:

kitchenwitch · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject:

You two are a couple of sick puppies. Confused

Fava beans & Chianti anyone?
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Dalton FB · Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Posts: 28

Would you travel a long journey on a bus with a Rambo knife weilding maniac and a bloke in front of you called Garnet?

or is that pronounced "Garnay"?

Either way....I think I will fly or take the train.
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