Slog - Comments on Go Greyhound and Leave the Driving to Us!

Comment by Balt-O-Matt

Balt-O-Matt — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:30:48 -0800

Only the crazies ride Greyhound. Sweet Moses.

Comment by And I only slapped them off your head. You got lucky.

And I only slapped them off your head. You got lucky. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:31:21 -0800

That's what you get when you blast Treble Booster on your shitty bud phones, you inconsiderate little bitch.

Comment by ams

ams — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:39:42 -0800

This is typical Canada. We're all mild mannered and shit, but every once in a while someone goes crazy with a hunting knife.
This sounds absolutely horrific. On the cbc website it said that he walked up to the front of the bus holding the head, and then just dropped it in front of everyone.

Comment by Callie

Callie — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:47:23 -0800

Dude, this is some horror movie shit. If they hadn't contained that guy in the bus, he probably would have killed them all, one by one, by morning. Walking (never running) the whole time.

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:50:30 -0800

Gruesome. If there was a quiz on which mode of transportation would most likely lead to a decapitation at the hands of another person i would definitely picked greyhound.

Comment by Ben

Ben — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:54:19 -0800

Holy fucking shit!

Comment by Vodka, grapefruit juice and salt

Vodka, grapefruit juice and salt — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:56:05 -0800

Does Greyhound have cameras on the bus because I want to see this shit on youtube.

Comment by Hernandez

Hernandez — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:58:20 -0800

Heavenly God, that's scary! Not that I ever had a reason to take the bus to Winnipeg, but I certainly will avoid doing so now.

Comment by Jen

Jen — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:02:33 -0800

#8 - considering this is a random act of violence, avoiding bus travel to Winnipeg as a result of this incident seems, well, dumb.

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:07:06 -0800

This is proof: the bus sucks.

Comment by Finishtag

Finishtag — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:09:25 -0800

maybe greyhound will start checking ids now.

Comment by Mahtli69

Mahtli69 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:18:10 -0800

Was he wearing a hockey mask? It is Canada, after all.

Comment by Mahtli69

Mahtli69 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:23:12 -0800

@11 - If this guy had used someone else's credit card, checking his ID might have helped.

But, he cut off someone's head. What good would an ID check do? To see if he's an organ donor?

Comment by Judah

Judah — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:24:01 -0800

I guess one way to encourage car ownership and use is to make sure people have to walk through a metal detector and be searched for every form of mass transit ever invented.

Comment by Gabe

Gabe — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:36:36 -0800

It was obviously an Amtrak assassin.

Comment by robo

robo — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:39:53 -0800

@7, you're a sick mother fucker. I'm trying to figure out what part of this merits cutesy comments, but at a loss. If you think it's hilarious, you should watch the video of the guy sitting in front of the victim. Very horrifying.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:42:45 -0800

I always knew Winnipeg was bad news.

Comment by michael strangeways

michael strangeways — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:15:51 -0800

Guy Maddin is already at work on the screenplay...

Comment by crk on bellevue ave

crk on bellevue ave — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:29:38 -0800

Yet another reason to use Zipcar over the bus. You listening Erica?

Comment by laterite

laterite — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:39:10 -0800

Jesus fucking Christ.

Comment by charm

charm — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:45:53 -0800

When I heard this on the radio this morning, I just about lost it. It's like something out of a Stephen King novel.

Comment by GK

GK — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:55:47 -0800

Scary.

Speaking of Greyhound, I've noticed the downtown terminal seems busier lately. Gas prices?

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:16:16 -0800

Is the guy going to be OK???

Comment by Judah

Judah — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:32:34 -0800

Is the guy going to be OK???

The one who had his head sawed off with a butcher knife?

Probably not.

Comment by Mike in MO

Mike in MO — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:52:26 -0800

avoiding bus travel to Winnipeg as a result of this incident seems, well, dumb

Jen, meet Sarcasm. Sarcasm, Jen.

Comment by Sheeple

Sheeple — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:28:39 -0800

The real tragedy here are the dumbass sheeple who ran off the bus. Seriously, forced military service for a few years when you hit 18 would go a loooonnng way to preventing violent crime. What the fuck was wrong with these people that they RAN AWAY when some poor asshat was getting stabbed in the neck? Why didn't anyone, I don't know, STOP THE MOTHERFUCKER? Society makes me sick.

Comment by I Got Shot Down by Dick Cheney

I Got Shot Down by Dick Cheney — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:32:04 -0800

@26 - Let's roll!

Comment by Amtrack

Amtrack — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:37:59 -0800

The train back to Seattle from PDX was super delayed. In desperation to get home, I almost bought a Greyhound ticket. Sooo glad I didn't!

Comment by clausti

clausti — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:41:04 -0800

@sheeple-

i personally am gonna take the fact that only 1 person died from the homicidal freak's rampage as evidence that running away was the right thing to do.

you think you're gonna be able to help somebody who's been fucking stabbed in the neck with a butcher knife? unless the poor sap gets stabbed on a gurney in an OR with surgeons scrubbed in, (and even then) I find it unlikely.

Comment by Julie Russell

Julie Russell — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:42:15 -0800

@26- My thoughts exactly. Why on a FULL bus did NO ONE TRY TO STOP Stabby McStabbins?

Comment by Tasty

Tasty — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:47:49 -0800

@12

There was a girl in one of the Friday the 13th films (5, I believe?) who got machete'd by Jason because she had the music up too loud and was too busy doing the robot.

Put it on a bus and you've got this story.

Comment by be afraid

be afraid — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:04:48 -0800

@29, they got lucky. There have been lots of airplane hijackings that have ended peacefully, but what is it worth to you to stop the ones that don't? Let's say three people jumped up and stopped the guy. 2 of them get slashed and hurt, and the initial victim still dies. Worse outcome, right? Only if you know that Stabby is going to end there. What if Stabby would murder another victim, or take a hostage and negotiate the keys to the bus and drive it into the Mall of America (or Saskatchewan, or something)? Do you really want to be afraid all your life and only look out for your own best interests?

Comment by Breklor

Breklor — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:31:31 -0800

That totally happened to me once. I was sitting next to this one dude on the Greyhound bus playing travel Scrabble and we were neck-and-neck, but then I played KNIVES on a triple word score and he totally lost his head.

Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me

You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:37:20 -0800

I'd bet money this happened in a Free Ride Zone. This sort of shit always happens in the Free Ride Zone.

Comment by DemonJuice

DemonJuice — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:32:59 -0800

@32 is right. This is perfectly analogous to a plane hijacking. How would the poor Mall of America ever see the bus coming and be able to stop it if Stabby had procured the keys.Ask the people in the Twin Towers if they had any warning of the mass transit vehicle that slammed into THEIR building!

Also, who cares that every single law enforcement agency in North America would advocate doing exactly what the passengers on the bus did? What the hell do they know?

Comment by Lianne

Lianne — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:31:36 -0800

@35, according to other reports, the bus driver *disabled* the bus (public buses do generally have this), so when the guy *did* try to drive away, the bus wouldn't move. Three passengers held the door shut so that the guy couldn't get off to attack anyone else. So he was trapped in a confined space with no way out. Sounds to me that it was smarter than attacking a murderous armed man in a tight, confined space.

Comment by Julie Russell

Julie Russell — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:11:46 -0800

Um.. 3rd plane.... 9/11. Passengers overthrow terrorists. Save Many.Avoid intended target.

Remind me never to be in a crisis with a bunch of Sloggers.

Comment by whatevernevermind

whatevernevermind — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:14:50 -0800

Will somebody explain how 9/11 got worked into this???

This psycho instantly delivered fatal wounds to someone before anyone knew what was happening. Were the other passengers supposed to use their magic powers to bring the victim back to life? Were they supposed to die, too, so that his death wouldn't be in vain?

There was one fatality on a bus full of potential victims and the psycho was nearly immediately contained -- and this was a failure on the part of the other passengers how exactly?

Comment by Don't blame the 'Peg

Don't blame the 'Peg — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:00:21 -0800

It turns out that only the victim was from Winnepeg. Stabby was from Edmonton. Score one for the oil patch!

Comment by Julie Russell

Julie Russell — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:11:17 -0800

35 brought in hijacking.

I'm just saying...It takes (I assume) a while to decapitate someone. MANY people survive stab wounds.

A busload of people could overpower 1 maniac.

Maybe I am crazy, but if I saw someone being stabbed.... Even someone I REALLY didn't like (say Colleen Lynn, Ellen Taft, Kim Schriefer) I would still try to help them.

Comment by Charm

Charm — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:37:13 -0800

Read the interview. After securing the safety of the other passengers, three men did go back to see if they could help the victim. At which time they found him being decapitated.

And yes, people can survive from stab wounds, but from what I heard, he was stabbed in the neck. You hit the jugular just once, and it's game over.

38 was on the money. In the case of a hunting knife weilding maniac, get your ass off the bus. What if they're attempts had enraged him further? What if disturbing him would have encouraged him to take his act outside the bus? Some of those passengers were small children. They did the right thing. By the time they knew what was happening, it was too late for the victim.

Comment by Julie Russell

Julie Russell — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:54:51 -0800

I didn't read that the victim died instantly. Or that he had been stabbed in the throat. That does change the scenario.