International And You Thought Your Last Trip on Greyhound Was a Drag…
posted by on August 1 at 13:57 PM
Canadian police today identified the 40-year-old man who witnesses say stabbed and decapitated a fellow Greyhound bus passenger Wednesday night on a remote stretch of highway.
Reports from the scene of the ostensibly random attack describe Li as boarding the bus, which was en route to Winnipeg, without incident. After pulling out a hunting knife and stabbing McLean as many as 40 or 50 times, witnesses said, Li displayed the victim’s severed head to horrified passengers who had already fled the bus.
It’s the remote stretch of highway that elevates this story from the (sadly) forgettable violence of cities to something memorably grotesque and macabre.
The countryside is shocked by any violence. Cities are only shocked by gruesome violence.
But gruesome violence in the countryside? That’s the most shocking of all.
The rest of the story, with even more horrible eyewitness details, here.
Motherfucker ATE pieces of the kid.
Except the bus was en route between two cities. So really this horror could be said to belong to 3 places.
Do you ghostwrite for chaz?
Anyone going to stand up and make the claim that we need to ban knives? I mean c'mon! Those damn blades are dangerous. If only all knives in the world would have been banned.
Or maybe Canada needs to prohibit the possession of knives, and this fellow would have obeyed the law and left his knife at home. Right?
I mean we can't expect anyone to have any personal responsibilty for their own actions right?
C'mon! This is about the tool used! Let's keep the focus here!
Why didn't the other passengers intervene after the first or second stab?
I love this story. Greyhound Gothic.
Except it's real.
Shit.
@5- I think it's wrong to judge the passengers. Obviously, they acted in a way which they thought best for the situation, and judging them for any heroism you think they should have displayed does not help anyone. This is especially true because we don't know exactly what happened.
A paranoid schizophrenic?
@4,
With the exception of the unfortunate victim, the rest of the passengers are lucky he only had a knife. If he'd have had a gun, they might all be dead.
This is exactly why semi-automatic weapons should be illegal, or at least a lot harder to get. Horrible as this was, there is a limit to what a crazy guy with knife can do. A crazy guy with a AK-47 or a Mac-10 can do a whole lot more mayhem.
I call for banning Greyhound buses. And Canadians. Both obviously dangerous.
Weirdly, traveling by bus is still orders of magnitude safer than driving.
and he ate parts of the body!
http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2008/08/police-hes-hacking-off-pieces-and.html
Savage slogged this yesterday.
I guess fuel prices aren't so bad, after all.
The amazing thing, to me anyway, is that stuff like this is rare. I mean, you've got 4.5 billion people in the world and 4.49999999999 billion of them have enough inner restraint that I can safely walk down the street.
Maybe some alien culture out there lacks this kind of "don't harm other humans" meme and it is all out chaos.
But then again... I'm kinda weird like that. I still find it amazing that I can get in a car and drive from my garage to the southern tip of the continent and back.
how many is 4.49999999999 billion?
4,499,999,999,990
Cannibalism? Uh.
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_25353.aspx
OK -- if he was back there feasting on his victim and displayed the head to the other passengers, you've got to give him credit for great theatrics.
Sucks for the victim, of course, but victims are a dime a dozen.
third time this has been on slog in 24 hours?
thank you jesus, one less juggalo!
@20 Some things are so gross, they cannot be Slogged enough.
@15,
We're a lot closer to 7 billion these days. Try to keep up.
You want gruesome violence in the countryside? The gold standard is "In Cold Blood."
I'm sorry JTC, but those murders did not include SNACKING ON THE VICTIM.
Cannibalism always ups the ante.
No, I'm sorry, it's really not. The thing that elevates it to something memorably grotesque and macabre is the severed head being displayed.
god, that's SO no country for old men feeling.
@ 25: Dude cut off someone's head and showed it to people. WAY worse than In Cold Blood.
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