Thursday, July 31, 2008

Why you should never offer head to a stranger on a Greyhound



From Reuters:

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A man sleeping on a Greyhound bus as it rolled across the Canadian Prairies was killed and decapitated by his seatmate on Wednesday night, other passengers who were on the bus told media on Thursday.

"All of a sudden, we all heard this scream, this bloodcurdling scream," said Garnet Caton, who was sitting just in front of the victim, in an interview with CBC Television.

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

The attack continued as other passengers fled the bus and waited for police on a desolated stretch of the TransCanada Highway near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, said Caton, who helped bar the bus door to prevent the attacker from leaving.

"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," Caton said.

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

CBC reported the Royal Canadian Mounted Police took the attacker into custody, but the police have not yet commented.

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5 Comments:

Blogger Dave S said...

oh yeah, no, we're fine up here in canada. no problem. nothing to see here. just a little rough housing on a bus, that's all. maybe a little cannibalism. but, you know... boys will be boys.

August 5, 2008 2:27 PM  
Anonymous Amanda By Night said...

Wow buzz. How I've missed you!

August 5, 2008 6:12 PM  
Blogger the.maljax said...

Is there anything that can be done to make you post more often? Because I might be willing to do it...

August 5, 2008 10:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And this makes me question if I want to ever read this blog again.
"Why you should never offer head to a stranger on a Greyhound" - incredibly disrespectful to the poor man who died.
Perhaps you are unaware there's a difference between fictional and real horror?

August 6, 2008 6:59 AM  
Blogger spazmo said...

Anonymous, I must likewise question whether you've ever read this blog before.

Buzz wasn't out of line. As it happens, both the Canadian and international press corps have covered this grisly incident in much the same fashion - sensationally.

How could they not?
This is some pretty fucked up shit right here. Even the witnesses said it played like something straight out of a horror movie.

August 6, 2008 8:32 AM  

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