Bus Ride From Hell
We don’t know anything about the perpetrator yet, but a guy on a Greyhound bus decided to behead his seat mate.
He wanted to, I guess:
As horrified travelers watched, a Greyhound Canada bus passenger repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a young man who was sitting and sleeping beside him, a witness said Thursday.
Police officers and cars surround the bus near Portage la Prairie, Canada, on Wednesday night.
“There was a bloodcurdling scream. I was just reading my book, and all of a sudden, I heard it,” Garnet Caton, who was sitting in front of the two men, said of the Wednesday night incident west of Portage la Prairie in Manitoba.
“It was like something between a dog howling and a baby crying, I guess you could say,” Caton said. “I don’t think it will leave me for a while.”
I’m not going to speculate about this. But the description is bone-chilling.
Caton said the victim was sleeping with his head leaning against the window when the attack happened. Caton said he shouted at the other passengers, many of whom also were sleeping, to leave.
“Everybody got off the bus. Me and a trucker that stopped and the Greyhound driver ran up to the door to maybe see if the guy was still alive or we could help or something like that,” Caton said.
“And when we all got up, we saw that the guy was cutting off the guy’s head. … When he saw us, he came back to the front of the bus, told the driver to shut the door. He pressed the button and the door shut, but it didn’t shut in time, and the guy was able to get his knife out and take a swipe at us,” Caton said.
Caton told the AP that the attacker didn’t sit near the victim when he first got on the bus, about an hour before the attack.
“He sat in the front at first; everything was normal,” Caton said. “We went to the next stop, and he got off and had a smoke with another young lady there. When he got on the bus again, he came to the back near where I was sitting. He put his bags in the overhead compartment. He didn’t say a word to anybody. He seemed totally normal.”
- Aggie
Viola Aldridge said,
August 1, 2008 @ 10:35 am
As soon as the passengers in the bus first heard the scream, couldn’t a lot of them get up and jump that person killing that young man?
martino said,
August 1, 2008 @ 2:10 pm
Sounds like he went off his meds. Schizophrenia is a deadly disease.
So sad.
Hx said,
August 1, 2008 @ 2:18 pm
Well, this DID happen in Canada. The more appropriate question ia why someone didn’t gently tap the assailant on the shoulder and ask him politely to please stopp beheading the young man. After all, it’s only we, the violent, unreasonable hillbillies from the States who would think to use force to stop the attack…we’re unenlightend that way…
Anonymous said,
August 1, 2008 @ 6:55 pm
yeah but for all we know the attacker was 6′-6″ 340 pounds and wacked out on PCP.