Sleeping Man Beheaded on Greyhound Bus
 

Warning: this is a disturbing story!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25949218/

Horror on Canadian bus as seat mate beheaded

40-year-old arrested after grisly slaying aboard Manitoba-bound Greyhound


WINNIPEG, Manitoba - A traveler aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated his seat mate, pausing during the savage attack in central Canada to display the head to passengers who had fled in horror, witnesses said Thursday.

A 40-year-old man was arrested shortly after the grisly slaying Wednesday night aboard a bus traveling from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Steve Colwell told reporters Thursday.

Police apprehended the suspect when he broke a bus window and tried to escape, Colwell said. A motive had not been determined. Authorities declined to identify the suspect or the victim, and provided few details about the attack.

That always surprised me too; I used to take the Greyhound/Peter Pan home for holidays. They put up signs after 9/11 that all bags were subject to search, but I never saw one actually get searched.

Who in the world travels with tools that would decapitate someone? What kind of instrument even does that? I imagine your everyday regular knife wouldn't...

I can't imagine what that guy's last moments were like. The guy next to you pulls out some sort of tools and starts stabbing you...unreal. That stuff is enough to give you nightmares for weeks.

that is so crazy.

Don't forget cruise ship travel - security on cruise ships is a joke too.

It's to create the "illusion" of security. I remember in the hotel parking lots of Las Vegas....the security guards just kinda wave you through....tra la la...come on in.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/st...anscanada.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americ...bus/index.html
The stories that I've read are that it was a hunter or butcher type of knife, or a "Rambo knife" according to some witnesses.
The whole thing is sickening and disturbing, to put it mildly.

HORRIFYING! The other passengers are going to need post-trauma therapy. I don't know what I would do if I witnessed something like that. I don't even want to think about it.

um........

no one tried to help?

Pittsburgh at least gives bus passengers a bit of a heads up - the station is next door to the county jail!

Needless to say, I never take the bus...

pun intended?

This just in for today....the ruling has been handed down (March 5, 2009):
This ruling does not surprise me -- my sister (who is a lawyer) called it first.

"Vincent Li found not criminally responsible - Greyhound bus killer avoids jail time"
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1356797

and
"Greyhound bus killer found not criminally responsible"
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/st...i-verdict.html

Do you want to wait 2 hours and get searched everytime you get on a bus? You can't destroy a skyskraper with a bus.

El Al Airlines is the "gold standard" in airline security, but I'm sure that passengers wait a long time.

This thread is nothing without pictures

there are pictures in the link, but this thread is still nothing

Everything is nothing.

I'm still stunned that no one tried to stop him.