When it first happened it was on the news and interwebs, but I haven’t seen much on it since.
But I was pretty creeped out after reading about it. I may never take public transportation ever again. Not that I do anyway, but still.
haha yeah nice thread title, mr. insensitive.
its still getting some news play here in Fargo, since Winnipeg is somewhat close. I’ve seen video of the guy…just a normal looking middle-aged asian man.
pretty gruesome story…ugh I actually get chills thinking about it.
why didn’t anyone stop that motherfucker though!! pussies. I’m sure the kid was already dead after a few punctures, but just letting him get fucking beheaded?? cripes.
yeah that is a bizzare story heard about it a few days back, he gutted the guy too, like he was going to take some meat or something
I can’t imagine having that happen in front of you, i think i’d faint. plus it’d make me super seriously late for my important business meetings.
Not only that, but a police radio report leaked to the internet went something like this…
“Suspect walks back to victim, appears to be eating the flesh…”
He was eating the guy…
He appeared in court today and said “please kill me.”
^ that’s pretty messed up, but I kinda still want to hear it. Does anyone know where?
It seems there are all sorts going on on Canadian Greyhound buses.
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Ms. H
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt1kDii1Unw
That’s the audio for it
Greyhound better come up with some suave PR
^^ That’s pretty chilling.
Thread of the year!
standing ovation
This world is one F’d up place.
Can I choose a different planet yet?
Almost more disturbing is how, yet again, there was a ton of bystanders yet no one even tried to stop the guy. Good job, people.
I have less faith in the folks who stood and watched than I do in the killer.
Stevo
^ Ask yourself this? Would you have tried to stop him? Seriously? There are blood and guts all over the place, would you be able to react sanely? I think I just would have curled up in a fetal position and started crying.
The bus driver got everyone off the bus and locked this maniac inside. I don’t know how he was able to react with such a clear head when this was going on. I’m not sure if there is much anyone without a bigger machete could have done.
Although I can say that if I were in the position of the person being attacked, I would have loved for someone to help me or stop the guy.
However, I can’t honestly say that as a bystander I would have jumped in. There’s just no way. Most people’s natural instinct is to run the other direction. Only a small few are wired differently.
Oh Stevo, once again a post without informing yourself.
If you read the news reports, you would have learned that the bus driver and 2 other men DID try to stop him.
When they attempted to disarm this man wielding a very large hunting/Rambo knife, who was acting every way but sane, the man started slashing at them and advancing toward them, to which they exited & blocked the door of the bus so to protect everyone else.
I think they acted admirably given the INSANE circumstances.
This is anything but an average attack on someone.
I’ve found people to come to the rescue of fellow humans more and more lately, but when something like this happens the first job of the driver is to get everyone off the bus to safety, THEN to assess the situation.
This poor guy was dead pretty quick from what I understand.
*That police audio is nuts.
So calm describing the situation. Crazy.
I don’t know if I could have just stood and watched. That’s crazy. How can you even live with yourself if you don’t try to help him?
Now, if the guy had already been stabbed 50 times and he had cut the dude’s head halfway off already I probably would have just let the dude finish the job. No point in risking things then.
But seriously…it’s an ENTIRE BUS of people and not one of them try to stop it. If one guy would go to him, you know other people who try to back him up…a whole crowd working together could subdue one guy easily…and it’s not like he had a gun…it’s just a knife. I dunno…just seems weird to me.
Stevo
From the way I read the story, by the time the rest of the bus realized what was happening… it was too late.
Locking him on the bus seems like the most reasonable response to me.
And you thought this story couldn’t get any worse.
[i]WINNIPEG - Someone claiming to be a sister of the young man stabbed and beheaded on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last month has been trying to use the horrific killing to collect money.
The unidentified person posted messages on the Facebook social-networking site last week, claiming to be Tim McLean’s eldest sister, Amanda.
“I thank you all for your support of our family. It has been hard to deal with, but life must go on,” one message read.
“If you would like to make a donation to help our family, we have set up a PayPal account to do so. Contact for more details.”
The impostor also contacted Ron Schinners, who had set up a tribute page to McLean, with a story of financial hardship. The family was having a hard time paying for all the funeral expenses, Schinners was told via instant messaging, and had to quit jobs to help each other through the ordeal.
Schinners was so moved by the story, he turned control of his Facebook tribute page over to the person he believed was the victim’s sister - despite never having met or talked to the person on the phone.
“I was doing it out of the kindness of my heart, but I was also being deceived and I felt really stupid,” Schinners said Tuesday from his home in Port Alberni, B.C.
The pleas for donations were on a handful of McLean tribute pages for a couple of days before people got suspicious. They pointed out the McLean family had already set up an account to accept donations at branches of TD-Canada Trust.
Schinners eventually heard from the real Amanda McLean. At the same time, someone reported the matter to the RCMP and the person posting as Amanda McLean was removed from Facebook, he said.
Manitoba RCMP would not confirm whether an investigation was underway, citing privacy laws.
McLean, a travelling carnival worker, was on his way home to Winnipeg from Edmonton on July 30 when he was attacked onboard the bus.
Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton has been charged with second-degree murder. He is undergoing a psychiatric assessment and his next court date is set for Sept. 8. [/i]
Sick and twisted world.
Yep. There’s always some idiot trying to capitalize on something.
There were plenty of 9/11 scams as well.
You’ve got to wonder what goes through people’s heads sometimes.
yeesh.