Man beheaded on bus Winnipeg, Canada

Yikes!
must of not liked the guys music or something.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080731.wmanbus0731/BNStory/National/home
Man beheaded on bus to Winnipeg


JOE FRIESEN
Globe and Mail Update
July 31, 2008 at 1:31 PM EDT

BRANDON, MAN. — A young man travelling on a Greyhound bus was stabbed to death and beheaded by a stranger in a horrifying act of apparently random violence.
The incident occurred on a bus travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg just before 10 p.m. Wednesday.
A man of about 18 who was sleeping with headphones on was suddenly attacked by his seat mate, according to the man who sat directly in front of them.
He was stabbed repeatedly with a large hunting knife, sending blood spraying across the interior of the bus. The driver quickly pulled over and passengers fled out the front door.



The man then sawed off the victim's head and carried it to the front of the bus.
The two did not apparently know one another. The victim boarded the bus in Edmonton, one witness said, and the attacker boarded in Manitoba.
A standoff with police ensued until about 1 a.m. local time.
One man was taken into custody.
Garnet Caton, 26, was sitting in the seat in front of the attacker.
"I was just reading a book and all of a sudden I heard a guy screaming. I turned around and the guy sitting right beside me was standing up and stabbing another guy with a big Rambo knife," he said.
"Right in the throat. Repeatedly."
The man wielding the knife had a shaved head and was wearing sunglasses, he said.
"He looked totally calm. He didn't say a word I don't think to anybody on the bus ... nothing. Just totally calm."
Mr. Caton said most passengers were sleeping at the time and didn't realize what was happening.
"I screamed 'stop the bus!' ... Everybody got the hell off, and people at the front of the bus didn't really understand what was going on. It almost turned into a trample scene there, everybody trying to get off the bus. But the guy didn't care at all. He wasn't concerned with anybody but the guy he was stabbing.
"The guy was totally calm. When he brought the head he looked at us and dropped it. It was like he was having a day at the beach. He couldn't be bothered by anything else."
Passenger Cody Olmstead from Kentville, N.S., said he had just smoked a cigarette with the victim at the last stop in Brandon. He said he believed the victim had gotten on the bus in Edmonton.
"We just left the town of Brandon and we were watching Zorro and the next thing I know I hear somebody scream and I look back and there's some big guy holding this little fellow up between the bathroom door and the seat," Mr. Olmstead told CBC News.
After passengers fled the bus and braced the door to keep the attacker inside, he returned with the victim's head, Mr. Olmstead said.
"His hand come out the door with the knife," he said. "He went back on the bus and then they [passengers] brace the door and he come back standing in the doorway with the head, looked at them, dropped the head, went back and started cutting buddy back up."
As night fell and police surrounded the bus, the suspect taunted police officers, Mr. Olmstead said.
"He comes up and he picks the head up and he's waving it in the window. I just smoked a cigarette with this man [the victim] earlier, the head, and he's shaking it back and forth at the window and it's ... intense right, it's sickening."
Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day said the violent attack is a "horrific" incident and his heart goes to the family of the victim.
However, Mr. Day played down the possibility of enacting tough security measures in Canada's bus terminals, similar to what already exists in airports.
“People should always be open to looking at precautionary measures. But let's keep in mind that as bizarre and tragic as this is, it is extremely rare,” Mr. Day said.
He also dismissed talk by some opposition MPs of a “knife registry,” saying that millions of them are bought each year simply for kitchen use. He added that there are already provisions in the Criminal Code against crimes and assaults.
Speaking at a Conservative caucus meeting, Mr. Day said he does not want to jeopardize the investigation, but added he wants to see the killer “convicted in court.”
“We want to make sure that the process is followed as aggressively as possible, a full legal process, and the perpetrator is definitely dealt with the full force of the law,” he said.
Greyhound called the event tragic but isolated.
A company spokeswoman said bus travel is the safest mode of transportation, despite the fact bus stations do not have metal detectors and other security measures used at airports.
“Due to the rural nature of our network, airport-type security is not practical. It's a very different type of system,” Abby Wambaugh said from Greyhound's corporate offices in Texas.

 

Thatis disgustinq .! He brought head to front of bus calm wow

 

There's some weird people on Greyhounds.

 

How sick is that!

 

Sick How?

 

Hm let's see.. This guy stabbed this boy repeatedly and then sawed his head off and waved it around.

 

You ever rode 2,000 miles across the country in a box on wheels with a seat near the bathroom? The experience can do weird things to a man.

 

That's why anyone is afraid of railways now xD

 

My dad lives in Winnipeg. Glad he doesn't ride the Greyhound when he comes to visit...

 

The guy was sleeping too.

 

Maybe he was a snorer?

 

I saw this story earlier today. Apparently the guy next to him (the psycho) was sleeping and had his headphones on. Then the psycho passenger decided to get all stabbity and decapitate the guy next to him. The only guess I can come up with is that the guy who got killed must have been listening to some Ozzy Osbourne backwards, and the killer overheard the lyrics and snapped!

Ok, I'm joking a bit, but only because this is a horrifying story and I deal with things like this with jokes told in poor taste.

 

yea i read this in Toronto Star, i thought only this can happen in movies, i guess not. And there's no way to identify these crazy psychos too as the wacko was acting pretty normal until he started stabbing the young man. I guess he had enough of that man's music? This is truely a horror story, or rather, a horror news. >.>

 

This is an unimaginable tragedy. But truth is stranger than fiction. Condolence to the family of the victims.

 

Here's the Video Interview with Garnet Caton who was on the bus when the attack occured. Pretty graphic.

 

Thanks for the video. Christ this is crazy.....

 

All I have to say is thank god that this man will be in prison for the rest of his life. God bless the family of the victim and thank god no one else was hurt. My sister heard that he went back after he held up the head and continued to delimb the victim.

 

Hope he gets raped in prison.

 

The should be checked by a psychiatrist. He's crazy!

 

Why didn't anyone on the bus try to stop him? That poor kid. :[