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Im never sleeping on a GreyHound Bus ever again...
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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/07/31/greyhound-transcanada.html
Coles Notes: A man just goes apeshit on a bus, and stabs a random 21 year old passenger 50-60 times. Everyone gets off the bus and the attacker then proceeds to decapitate the victim and show it to everyone through the window of the bus.
Thoughts? Comments?
Coles Notes: A man just goes apeshit on a bus, and stabs a random 21 year old passenger 50-60 times. Everyone gets off the bus and the attacker then proceeds to decapitate the victim and show it to everyone through the window of the bus.
Thoughts? Comments?
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I have no idea what I would do in that situation.
I doubt anyone noticed until he already stabbed the guy a couple times.
No seriously this is some fucked up shit. Taunting the passengers with the guy's decapitated head?
But, seriously, this is something out of a slasher flick. The lunacy of it all is just staggering.
Apparently after the first stab the victim was screaming bloody murder.
I'm wondering the about the guy who did it, since apparently he appeared pretty normal to the people who talked to him on the bus.
I still am, but bringing a bigger knife.
That would be pretty traumatic. I'm surprised that they were as orderly in getting everybody out of the bus as the article indicates. I'm not sure they would have been able to save the guy had they tried to intervene, and evacuating the bus allowed them to contain the guy inside the bus.
Forget knife, its time to invest in personal shield technology...Where are the Protoss when you need them.
oh god the victim was john connor skynet wins.
Don't worry, he was just going through all the John Connors in the phonebook.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
CTV as more as well:
It was Corey Hart!
Dune taught me that it won't work -- the knife wielder just needs to stab more slowly.
The only thing that could make this creepier is if he was singing "Sunglasses at Night" softly while he attacked the dude.
Greyhounds are pretty shitty.
Or even more creepy would be if the guy who got stabbed happened to have been listening to it on his iPod or whatever.
"Greyhound declined to comment, except to state that, 'There was an incident on one of our buses.'"
Incident? Ya think?!
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"Hey, people horribly traumatized be a decapitation on the crosstown! How about a free ride on us! Just give us a second to mop down the bus and replace the driver that just quit."?
I expected it to be more breathtaking in scope.
This fucked up event, some American asshole stabs a passenger, a whole group of fucked up people attacks the driver, some other fucked up guy managed to crash the bus, and a guy attacks a pregnant passenger.
5 major incidents in an 8 year period, only 2 of which lead to a fatality seems like a pretty good track record considering the vast number of Greyhound busses on the road at a given time.
Now I feel guilty for laughing at the John Connor joke.
Horrific.
I would hope that someone would come to my aid if I am being stabbed to death. I doubt none of us here would allow something like that to continue to happen if it were a loved one. Even if they might already be dead. Fuck the rambo knife. Besides, an assailant is not likely to kill another man if he is being attacked by a group of able people. I think we could all take a page from the "Let's Roll" mindset-- as trite as it is to mention it. I'd risk being wounded over watching someone murdered in public. I've lived in poor socio-economic towns most of my life and seen the likes of knife fights to a pregnant woman being jumped. Just last week I intervened in a public park where a guy was being jumped. And last month, a student was stabbed to death outside of the high school I taught at for the week, as his friends and sister watched in horror. Point is; these things happen more frequently than are noted or deemed newsworthy and little was done about it.
My question is; if you are witnessing such a violent incident, having no other dependants to look after, would you rise to help someone or even call others to assist?
Should we not expect strangers to come to each other's aid? As humans, are we able to transcend our initial fight or flight/other self-preserving instincts to act out of social responsibility?
I would like to think that everyone would want to, but truthfully our own instincts would be going against us unless it is a loved one.
I can't say 100% I would go in with a cape and fight the guy, im just saying that until you enter a situation like that you won't know how you will react.
Honestly? I'd say in this scenario everyone on the bus did the right thing. Given that the attacker began his assault on a sleeping man, with his very first strike being to the neck, the odds are all but zero that anyone could have done anything to prevent the victims death. At best they'd have probably gained him the luxury of bleeding to death or choking to death on his own blood well before help could arrive.
And at what cost? Attacking a man unarmed with a knife, all it takes is one mistake and you're now pretty fucked up. Given the unlikelihood of a rescue and high odds of more people being hurt, it's probably for the best everyone evacuated the bus.
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Anyone with me on this? Or do I have problems?
Don't switch the blade on the guy in shades; oh no