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Last Bus to Winnipeg

Goat Rider · Gloabal Modemator

I guess that passenger just last his head over his seat mate.

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Calvin · Upgraded Condition?

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Another bus in Canada.

Bus rider recalls another gruesome incident

Man cut himself after locking himself in bathroom

Matthew Pearson, The Ottawa Citizen

Published: Saturday, August 02, 2008

It's no wonder Karina Hébert rents a car now whenever she travels to Montreal.

The Ottawa public servant was a frequent Greyhound rider until a gruesome incident in late January changed all that.

Her story came to light yesterday in the aftermath of the stabbing and decapitation of 22-year-old Tim McLean.

The suspect in Mr. McLean's killing -- a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg -- appeared in court yesterday.

Ms. Hébert says she was travelling through a snowstorm on a mid-afternoon Greyhound bus from Montreal to Ottawa on Jan. 22 when a man who had locked himself in the washroom began using a razor blade to peel off his own scalp.

Ms. Hébert said she had noticed the scruffy man in the bus station, fidgeting and talking to himself. When she boarded the bus, she saw him sitting in the back row, adjacent to the washroom.

The man later barricaded himself in the washroom for more than an hour, forcing the driver to pull off Highway 417 onto Highway 138, east of Casselman.

Ms. Hébert said the driver tried to talk the man into coming out of the washroom, but at first the man refused.

That's when Ms. Hébert said something shocking happened.

"The guy opened the door and his face was completely, completely covered in blood. It was kind of like a horror movie. The only thing that stood out was the whites of his eyes," she said.

The man was holding his still-attached scalp above his head, which she later learned from police he had begun cutting away at the back of his head below the crown.

When the bus driver told the man he was going to call for help, Ms. Hébert said the man re-entered the washroom and locked the door.

The driver then told the 17 remaining passengers to get off the bus.

When Ontario Provincial Police officers arrived, Ms. Hébert said several boarded the bus and dismantled the door after the man refused to come out.

The man was also Tasered.

Horrified passengers stood by as police dragged him out of the bus. He was covered in blood and his pants were around his ankles, Ms. Hébert said.

A police officer later told Ms. Hébert that by the time officers got the man out of the washroom, he had cut all the way around his scalp and down to the bridge of his nose or immediately below.

Still, she said the man did not make a sound and remained conscious.

The bus was towed away and, after a three-hour delay, passengers were back on the road.

When they arrived in Ottawa, Ms. Hébert said Greyhound refunded riders the equivalent of a one-way, Montreal-to-Ottawa fare.

Ms. Hébert said she didn't complain to the bus company at the time, out of respect for the man and his family.

But after reading the company's statements this week following the killing near Brandon, Man., she decided to speak out.

"They say it's a rare occasion, well, it's not. Things like that obviously happen more often than we like to think."

Greyhound spokesman Eric Dallas said, in response to the Manitoba killing, the incident was a shocking, but isolated, event.

"We're trying to remind people that we are one of the safest modes of transportation to travel," he said from his office in Dallas. "We realize security is a top concern and we want our passengers to feel safe."

Greyhound is working with Transport Canada to adopt some of the safety features Greyhound offers in the United States, such as airport-style handheld scanners and driver shields, he added.

Astrobuck10 · Cured

Bus rides are hell anyways.
Literally now...it seems.

The Krink · The Forum Celestial Advisor

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Published: Sunday, August 3, 2008

Bus killer ate part of victim, leaked police tape says

Associated Press

TORONTO -- A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked on the Internet Saturday.

In the tape of radio transmissions, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer refers to the attacker as "Badger" and says he is armed with a knife and scissors and is "defiling the body at the front of the bus as we speak."

On the tape, which lasts about 80 seconds, officers continue to detail the attacker's movements until one reports, "Badger's at the back of the bus, hacking off pieces and eating it."

The RCMP described the tapes as "operational police communications and, as such, are not meant for public consumption." Police said permission had not been given to use the radio transmission, which was posted on LiveLeak.com and picked up by other Web sites.

Vince Weiguang Li, 40, faces second-degree murder charges for the murder of a 22-year-old man, whom friends and family identified as Tim McLean. Police have not confirmed the victim's identity.

McLean's family spoke publicly Saturday for the first time since the brutal attack.

"He was a little guy with a heart bigger than you could know," McLean's uncle, Alex McLean, said in a prepared statement.

The killing has spawned a vast online community, with tens of thousands showing support for McLean's family and expressing disgust for the attack.

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Mom told him he should've packed a sandwich.

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'Bus Rage' Ads Scrapped After Greyhound Beheading

Greyhound Nixes Ads Touting Peaceful Upside Of Bus Travel After Passenger Was Decapitated

TORONTO (AP) Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler.

The ad's tag line was "There's a reason you've never heard of 'bus rage."'

Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said Wednesday a billboard and some tunnel posters near a bus terminal in Toronto are still up and would be removed later in the day.

"Greyhound knows how important it is to get these removed and we are doing everything possible," Wambaugh said. "This is something that we immediately asked to be done last week, realizing that these could be offensive."

Vince Weiguang Li, who immigrated to Canada from China in 2004, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old carnival worker Tim McLean. He has yet to enter a plea.

Thirty-seven passengers were aboard the Greyhound from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, as it traveled at night along a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway about 12 miles from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. Witnesses said Li attacked McLean unprovoked, stabbing him dozens of times.

As horrified passengers fled the bus, Li severed McLean's head, displaying it to some of the passengers outside the bus, witnesses said.

A police officer at the scene reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police report.

Wambaugh said the ads only appeared in Canada and that some in Ontario and western Canada have already been removed. About 20,000 inserts of the Greyhound ads were scheduled to be put into an Alberta Summer Games handbook but they stopped the presses.
© 2008 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

Pedestrian walks past an ad for Greyhound bus, Toronto, Canada,

AP

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Woman attacks Toronto bus driver with hammer

TORONTO -- Police say a woman brandishing a hammer has attacked a bus driver in Toronto, setting off a melee that injured three people.

The woman boarded the bus Monday morning and accused the driver of not stopping for her earlier, police say. She then allegedly began swinging the hammer, injuring the bus driver's hands.

Authorities say other passengers wrestled the woman to the floor and held her until police arrived. The bus driver was taken to the hospital, and two other people suffered minor injuries.

Charges of assault with a weapon have been filed against Chelsea Simon, 23. Last month, a passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada repeatedly stabbed his seatmate and after killing him, cut off his head, witnesses reported.

(The preceding article was distributed by the Associated Press on August 18, 2008.)

August 19, 2008

Buckethead · Professional Asshole

What the hell are they putting in the water up there!

Freddie Krueger · Unstable & Irrational

It's starting in Superior too, all they need is some busses.

Buckethead · Professional Asshole

Freddie Krueger wrote:

It's starting in Superior too, all they need is some busses.

What are ya talking about! We have a bus...

A short bus, but it's a bus!

Snippy · Force Majeure

Snippy was going to comment on the work of art that is the bus bra on UTU Membershit 1, but never mind.....

Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

Man Stabbed, Beheaded On Greyhound Bus

Passengers Fled Vehicle After Witnessing Attack

This is the official end of my post.

Bus rider recalls another gruesome incident

Man cut himself after locking himself in bathroom

Matthew Pearson, The Ottawa Citizen

'Bus Rage' Ads Scrapped After Greyhound Beheading

Greyhound Nixes Ads Touting Peaceful Upside Of Bus Travel After Passenger Was Decapitated