Stabbing on a Greyhound

[jmac]

Me thinks my hubby is glad he can't do any firefighting work for now with his chemo, he would have been at this call last night. It would have freaked me out, beeg time. It's hard to imagine it, don't want to either.

winnipegsun.com - Manitoba - Nightmare on Highway 1

[Doggiemom]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Rissask]

Just heard this on the radio on the way to work.

The bus was evacuated, but Caton said he was one of a handful of witnesses who saw the suspect allegedly trying to behead the body.


The suspect later appeared at the front of the bus, he said. "He calmly walked up to the front (of the bus) with (the victim's) head in his hand and the knife and then dropped the head in front of us," Caton said, adding he believes the suspect later returned to the back of the bus and was seen later "taunting police with the head in his hand out the window."

Can you imagine seeing that! Talk about scarred for life. Horrendous!


Must have been a methhead...or mental illness....yikes.

[Opatije]

I'm speechless ...where are we going as a nation?

[jmac]

I dunno what he had but I'm sooooo thankful, Glenn is on the DL & kid #1 isn't doing any of it for now & kid #2 is due to be a junior firefighter this fall although I would hope they would have had sense enough to get him back to town when they realized what was going on. Scary crap I tell ya.

[MaripositaII]

Originally Posted by jmac

Me thinks my hubby is glad he can't do any firefighting work for now with his chemo, he would have been at this call last night. It would have freaked me out, beeg time. It's hard to imagine it, don't want to either.

winnipegsun.com - Manitoba - Nightmare on Highway 1

How is he doing with chemo? Sick mofos out there!

[Mark05]

One witness was quoted as saying he was calm like he was at the beach That passenger must frequent different beaches than I do

[Nerak936]

I've been spending so much time following Ranger's "new puppy" thread that when I saw the title of this thread, I thought someone had attacked a greyhound dog!

[jmac]

Originally Posted by MaripositaII

How is he doing with chemo?

He's doing great with everything but the hand & foot syndrome. He can't work right now as he's on his feet & uses his hands all the time, if he had an office job, maybe but not electrical. He was to start his last cycle today but it's built up a little too much so they are waiting a week then he'll do the last cycle. If they want more, it'll have to wait as he needs to get back to work, the 2 we have are keeping up admirably but it's getting backed up pretty good. Thanks for asking.

[Rissask]

Originally Posted by Opatije

I'm speechless ...where are we going as a nation?

I hardly think a random act of violence by an obviously very disturbed person is indicative of the nation going to hell in a handbasket ....things like this happen all over the world from time to time.

On the positive side, if he had a handgun, think of how many more innocent people may have died. At least knives are limiting in that sense.

[margaritamamma]

Holy Chit - that's right outside my home town (P la P)- sounds like the nutcase was on drugs?? or totally a nutcase. Gross!

[Buggirl]

Good lord! I have no words.....



(jmac, glad to hear things are going relatively well for your husband- I'll be thinking of him as he enters his last chemo cycle.....and you, too- stay strong)

[jmac]

Originally Posted by margaritamamma

Holy Chit - that's right outside my home town (P la P)- sounds like the nutcase was on drugs?? or totally a nutcase. Gross!

It was right outside your home town, just near Bagot corner.

[mofi]

Thank god he just didn't start stabbing anyone and everyone as the tried to get off the bus. This story is disturbing though. It's like he was holding the head in his hands like a trophy or a prize or something....ewwww

[margaritamamma]

Originally Posted by jmac

It was right outside your home town, just near Bagot corner.

Our family farm was just east of Bagot corner a few miles - mostly grew up in town in later years.
I just read that the victim apparently was sleeping or at least listening to his I-pod - wonder how loud his music was?
On the city bus in the morning , I sometimes want to slap some guys up side the head - the volume on their ipod is so loud the whole bus can hear it.
But this would be way over the top. What a tragic thing to have happen - there were small kids on the bus too.