[Merged] WTF? Greyhound Bus drama near Portage La Prairie MB

[peroxide8888]

Just watching CBC Newsworld and there was a story of this incident which has occurred Wed night aboard a Greyhound Bus near Portage La Prairie MB. Some guy suddenly went psycho and stabbed and decapitated the male passenger who was beside him!

WTF is that about?!?! Some people really need to be removed from society and the gene pool!

Here's the CBC.ca story: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/...anscanada.html

[Feneant]

I love how the police 'negotiated' to get him to come out...

Come on- with a guy like that the only way to negotiate it to stick a few bullets in his head.

What in the world possess someone to do that to another human being? It is insance.

[Blunt]

Wow.. Crazy!!
Did the killer even know his victim??

Bus passenger decapitated in Manitoba
Jul 31, 2008 08:58 AM
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THE CANADIAN PRESS

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. – Police haven't confirmed it, but a passenger says a gruesome attack on a Greyhound bus near Portage la Prairie, Man., has left a young man stabbed to death and decapitated and dozens of passengers in shock.

The RCMP and Greyhound officials will only say that a "major incident" occurred on the bus Wednesday night, but have not provided any details.

But a passenger who said he saw the attack said a man repeatedly stabbed a seatmate, and eventually severed his head.

"We heard this blood-curdling scream and turned around and the guy was standing up, stabbing this guy repeatedly, like 40 or 50 times," Garnet Caton said Thursday morning from a hotel in Brandon, where he and other passengers had been taken to rest.

Caton said everyone on the bus scrambled to get out, and he and the bus driver shut the door from the outside while they awaited police.

Eventually, the attacker came to the front of the bus and showed them he had cut off the victim's head, Caton said.

The bus had been carrying 37 passengers and the driver to Winnipeg from Edmonton.

At one point, Mounties surrounded the bus with one officer standing just a few feet away from an unidentified man sitting in the driver's seat.

A man was taken into custody after the standoff with police.

A portion of the Trans-Canada Highway, about 15 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie, remained closed Thursday morning.

Yellow tape surrounded the empty bus and RCMP officers were still on the scene. Traffic was being rerouted onto a side road.

[peroxide8888]

Here's the story on CTV: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...hub=TopStories

There's a video with a reporter who was on scene.

[Blunt]

I hope a video of the actual incident DOES NOT show up..

[sexpuppet6000]

"a truck driver then arrived at the scene and handed out wrenches and crowbars"

[Odysseus_Maximus]

Crazy 50 times...

[Debonair]

What the heck!?! I'm never going on a Greyhound bus again!!

[Rekognize]

wtf??

bus terminals should have the same level of security as airports. this wouldn't happen if the guy went through a metal detector/body search prior to boarding the bus

sick sick sick

[LonesomeDove]

Everyone should be wary about the guy who sits next to you on the bus. He could be a homicidal maniac. You never know when you might lose your head.

[Aznsilvrboy]

...damn...what a crazy man...

[st7860]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/...anscanada.html
A passenger repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated another person aboard a Greyhound bus travelling through Manitoba overnight, a witness said Thursday.

Police officers were examining the Greyhound bus after a man repeatedly stabbed another passenger. (CBC)Police would not confirm the reports, only saying that a "major incident" took place around 9 p.m. Wednesday evening in the bus as it drove along the Trans-Canada Highway west of Portage la Prairie en route to Winnipeg from Edmonton.

The killing took place on the Trans-Canada about 18 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie, a city about 85 kilometres west of Winnipeg. A man is in police custody.

Passenger Garnet Caton told CBC News on Thursday that the attacker had been sitting beside the victim, who was sleeping with his headphones on.

Caton said he heard a "blood-curdling scream" and saw the man holding a large "Rambo" hunting knife above the victim, "continually stabbing him in the chest area," he said.

"He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times," said Caton.

About 37 panicked passengers and the bus driver fled the bus. "The whole time, the attacker was over top of the victim. He is continually cutting him. I think the victim was gone at that point," Caton said.

Caton said the attacker appeared "totally normal" earlier in the journey after boarding around Brandon, and chatted with a young lady 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.

Once the bus pulled over and passengers fled, Caton, the driver and a trucker who stopped at the scene 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 began fiddling with buttons and trying to drive the bus, Caton says the driver disabled the vehicle.

"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.

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 later, he estimates, and began directing passengers to school buses to take them to a hotel in Brandon. The attacker picked up the head.

"While we were waiting on the side of the road, he was taunting the police with the head in his hand," said Caton.

A six-year-old and other children were among the passengers who saw the gruesome 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 morning 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.

[Blunt]

Wow,.. taunting the cops with head.
Screw negotiations. SHOOT THE GUY!!!

[George W. Bush]

If this would have happened in a country with the same level of "justice" as in Canada - the dude who murdered his victim would have been killed on the spot right there by the others.

In Canada this person can now please "insanity" and get off...

What a stupid system... what about this poor victim? Where are his rights? What about his family? Where is justice?

The murderer should face the same fate as his actions. In Canada and certain countries, the judges and the lawyers will take a stab at it, make a load of money (ie. taxpayers money that is), send the murder to some asylum, and he will be walking the streets again in 5 years...

Let's not talk about drunk drivers...

[st7860]

If this would have happened in a country with the same level of "justice" as in Canada - the dude who murdered his victim would have been killed on the spot right there by the others.

In Canada this person can now please "insanity" and get off...

What a stupid system... what about this poor victim? Where are his rights? What about his family? Where is justice?

The murderer should face the same fate as his actions. In Canada and certain countries, the judges and the lawyers will take a stab at it, make a load of money (ie. taxpayers money that is), send the murder to some asylum, and he will be walking the streets again in 5 years...

Let's not talk about drunk drivers...

i hereby and solemnly declare, +1