Slog - Comments on Headline of the Day

Comment by Ben

Ben — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:13:59 -0800

I can't wait for this story to stop getting more horrifying.

Comment by levide

levide — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:28:26 -0800

"I need to stay on the bus forever."

Comment by levide

levide — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:29:15 -0800

"I need to stay on the bus forever."

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/05/canada.bus.stabbing.ap/index.html

Comment by Mike in Olympia

Mike in Olympia — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:40:28 -0800

"Please kill me?" Really? If this guy wanted to be put to death for this, he sure picked the wrong place to do it.

Next time, try Texas.

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:22:45 -0800

He was re-enacting that Pretenders song? But why?

Comment by saxfanatic

saxfanatic — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:40:01 -0800

The bus passengers had been watching a movie en route. It may be another case of films inspiring real life violence. That's what you get when you show "The Bloody Murders, Dismemberments and Cannibalism of Zorro".

Comment by bronkitis

bronkitis — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:47:21 -0800

As if it could get any more fucking sordid, the guy he killed was a juggalo.

Comment by ok

ok — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:25:59 -0800

The most horrifying part will come when he gets out of jail coz he is mentally ill. I think Greyhound will go bankrupt, as people will be scared shitless.

Comment by mackro mackro

mackro mackro — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:50:31 -0800

Desperate, sad single men everywhere will be even more horrified to find out this man has a wife!

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:40:36 -0800

Doh! I'm told that Pretenders song was "Brass in Pocket." They never recorded anything called "Mouth, Nose and Ear in Pocket." Thank goodness. My bad.

Comment by Bento

Bento — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:46:16 -0800

Um, was he really a "carnival worker", or has the SMH journalist confused a Juggalo with a juggler?

Comment by Learn

Learn — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:55:51 -0800

@5 YR DOIN IT RONG!

Comment by Charm

Charm — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:40:30 -0800

@11 - Yes he was a carnival worker. I live in Edmonton, the city from which the bus left. Capital Ex, our big two week summer carnival event, had just ended a few days before this happened. It's said that the victim was on his way home, so my guess is that he was in the city working the Ex.

Comment by Toby

Toby — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:25:37 -0800

"The most horrifying part will come when he gets out of jail coz he is mentally ill."

Don't know about other places, but in Canada, if you are unfit to stand trial due to mental defect, you are held in a secure facility for treatment until you *are* fit (if ever).

Then you are tried. If convicted, you go to jail.

Comment by A Non Imus

A Non Imus — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:53:25 -0800

Maybe he was making hot dogs.

Comment by Charm

Charm — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:17:51 -0800

I think it's really sad that some people find this humourous. Perhaps the people who sent those tasteless posts to the wall on the FB memorial page for him also thought it was clever to make jokes.

Yes, this was horrific and sensational, and there is huge media coverage because it's just such an outrageous story.

But let's not forget that a young man, a person, someone's son, someone's brother, someone's uncle, someone's friend has lost his life, lost it in a brutal, terrifying act of senseless violence. This is not funny to his friends and family, and it shouldn't be to anyone who has heard this story. This is not a "we'll-look-back-on-this-someday-and-laugh" event. I can't imagine what his last moments were like, and I can't imagine what his loved ones must be feeling right now.

Let's show a little respect.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:33:45 -0800

He was recycling them.

See what happens when you take away our free plastic bags?

Comment by jayme

jayme — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:02:47 -0800

greyhound has scrapped their new ad campaign:

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/world/2008/08/06/D92CTOTO3_canada_bus_beheading/index.html

this could not be more like a novel.

Comment by immigrants are our friends

immigrants are our friends — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:15:11 -0800

I hope they let him contact the Chinese consulate ASAP, lest there be another tragic injustice done.

Comment by A Non Imus

A Non Imus — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:41:13 -0800

@16:

You are boring. Go mourn for strangers somewhere else.