Posted on 07/31/2008 5:10:23 PM PDT by Auntie Mame
A 40-year-old man is in custody in Manitoba after a young man was stabbed — and, witnesses said, decapitated — aboard a Greyhound bus travelling through the province overnight.
Police officers spent Thursday examining a Greyhound bus where a passenger was reportedly stabbed and decapitated late Wednesday. The RCMP would not confirm the reports of beheading, saying only that a stabbing took place around 8:30 p.m. CT on an eastbound Greyhound bus on the Trans-Canada Highway about 20 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie.
The suspect, believed to be from outside Manitoba, was arrested early Thursday morning after a standoff lasting several hours and remains in RCMP custody.
Charges have not yet been laid, and the suspect has not yet been interviewed, said RCMP spokesman Staff Sgt. Steve Colwell, adding that he could release no further information on the investigation.
The RCMP declined to identify either the suspect or the victim.
Thirty-seven people were aboard the bus en route to Winnipeg from Edmonton.
Colwell said the "brave" behaviour of the passengers and driver probably prevented anyone else from being hurt.
"It's not something that happens regularly on a bus," he said. "You're sitting there enjoying your trip and then all of a sudden somebody gets stabbed. I imagine it would be pretty traumatic … the way they acted was extraordinary."
Passenger Cody Olmstead, 21, told CBC News he had smoked a cigarette earlier in the trip with the victim, whom he described as a man in his late teens or early 20s. The victim got on the bus in Edmonton, he said.
"I never took the time to know him, but he seemed to be OK, right, just a kid," said Olmstead, a Nova Scotia man who had been taking the bus from Alberta to Montreal.
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Well, at least now we know he’s 40...
...and he beheads people...
Ah. A smoker. That explains it.
“...and he beheads people...”
Hmm...nope. Can’t come up with any group of people known for such things. He was from outside of Manitoba. Detroit maybe?
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Let me guess, the guy that cut this other guys head off was a muslim even though they haven’t mentioned it here.
I'm still amazed the other 36 bus riders chose to not stop the killer while he was stabbing the victim 50 times. Brave? I don't think so.
The “nationality” will probably be listed as “Canadian”, but there is a good chance that “Mohammed” may be part of that name.
Just another one where the insulation got rubbed off between a couple places in the internal wiring, and he went into “robo-killer” mode, like a berserk automaton.
Probably doesn’t remember a moment of it, either.
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Not suprising, Canada has some tough PC hate crime laws.
former goalie. too many pucks to the head.
I think I sat next to him, the last time I was on a bus.
Canada needs to pass a waiting period for knives. I wonder how it would have been if someone had a concealed weapon on the bus.
That’s what I thought when I read that. How does someone stab another person multiple times, and not one of these “brave” people stepped in together to stop him before he got as far as beheading the man?
I also agree with those who think there’s a chance that he’s Muslim, since the media won’t release any details, and that’s their MO.
The ethnicity/culture/religion of both the perp and the victim are not specified. For all we know, one is French speaker and the other is an albino Eskimo. Or perhaps one is a Mormon missionary and the other is an Elder in a Jehovah’s Witness congregation? [Somehow, I don’t think any of those are actually the case...]
Of course, one major political faction of our society would say that we are sick people to wonder or worry about it. And the other faction would say that we are even sicker (intellectually dishonest) to aritificially ignore the subject, making a false pretense that it doesn’t (or shouldn’t) matter to anyone.
There is no louder way to shout how much a topic matters than to make it a taboo subject. Just ask any child above the age of ten about the effectiveness of the taboo on talking about sex when children are in the audience.
Sometimes, it is what is not said that sends the most emphatic message.
name? probably just one of those Smith or Jones boys -
The VICTIM was in his twenties, NOT the perp.
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