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The Bus (or was Thatcher right aboot bineg a failure still taking a bus)


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No, this is not another thread about the greatest poem (as deemed by many members of TLW).

 

There's a John Cougar Mellencamp song called 'Minutes to Memories' and part of the lyrics go 'On a Greyhound twenty miles beyond Jamestown....'

 

 

TOP STORY Man stabbed, decapitated on bus bound for Winnipeg

 

 

A young man travelling on a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg late Wednesday was stabbed to death and then decapitated in what appears to be a random act of violence, witnesses said.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Officers surround a Greyhound bus where a gruesome murder took place during a trip from Edmonton to Winnipeg late Wednesday, July 30, 2008.

 

CTV.ca News Staff

 

According to passengers on the bus, the victim, between the ages of 18 to 20, was sleeping with his head against the window when the attack occurred.

 

"He was listening to music when suddenly the person next to him began to stab him in the neck with... a large butcher knife," CTV's Murray Oliver reported Thursday from Winnipeg, Man.

 

Garnet Caton, who was sitting in front of the victim, heard the commotion and turned around thinking he was going to witness a fight.

 

Caton told CTV News that once he realized what was going on he screamed: "Stop the bus, somebody's getting stabbed, everyone get the hell off."

 

The bus driver pulled over on a section of the east-bound Trans-Canada Highway -- about 15 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie, Man -- and many of the 37 passengers began to flee the bus.

 

Canton gathered a small group of people to go back and help the victim, said Oliver.

 

"They returned to the back of the bus to find that the person who was stabbing the person in the neck had now sawed off the head of (the victim)."

 

The man, with the head in one hand and the butcher knife in the other, then tried to attack the other passengers, said Oliver. The group was able to exit the bus and slammed the door behind them.

 

The man then stabbed the door with his knife but was unable to break through and get off the bus. Eventually, he attempted to start up the bus to drive away but the operator had hit a switch, disabling the vehicle.

 

Oliver said a truck driver then arrived at the scene and handed out wrenches and crowbars to several men. The small group gathered around the door to the bus and prevented the man from exiting until police arrived.

 

RCMP eventually arrested the man after a standoff lasting several hours, said Oliver.

 

Witnesses said the suspect was tall, large and wearing sunglasses, even though it was dark.

 

The bus was travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg.

 

The RCMP and Greyhound officials have confirmed that a "major incident" took place on the bus but few details have officially been released.

 

Man stabbed, decapitated on bus bound for Winnipeg : Home : News : Sympatico / MSN

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Ah great, I've been looking for a place to post this:

 

Boyfriend of woman stuck to toilet gets 6 months probation

The boyfriend of an American woman who became stuck to a toilet after sitting on it for a month has been sentenced to six months on probation

A man whose girlfriend sat on a toilet so long that the seat stuck to her body has been sentenced to six months on probation.

 

The Associated Press reports that Kory McFadden pleaded no contest to a misdemeanour count of mistreatment of a dependent adult. A judge sentenced him to six months in jail but granted probation after the victim, McFarren’s partner Pam Babcock, asked for leniency.

The home of Kory McFadden whose girlfriend Pam Babcock became stuck to a toilet after sitting on it for over a month

 

Babcock’s extremely reclusive behaviour first made headlines in February 2008 when McFarren called the local sheriff in Ness County, Kansas explaining that Babcock, his live-in girlfriend, had not left their bathroom for two years.

 

When the police arrived at McFarren’s trailer, they found Babcock stuck to the lavatory. Medics discovered that the toilet seat had become affixed to sores on her body and later estimated she had been sat on the loo for at least four weeks.

 

Babcock is currently under the protection of a guardian appointed through the legal department at the hospital where she received treatment. McFarren was also sentenced to six months in jail for an unrelated charge of lewd and lascivious behaviour for exposing himself to a teenage neighbour in March.

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Babcock’s extremely reclusive behaviour first made headlines in February 2008 when McFarren called the local sheriff in Ness County, Kansas explaining that Babcock, his live-in girlfriend, had not left their bathroom for two years.

 

That's fucking awesome.

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Seems to be catching on:

 

Man beheads girlfriend

Man killed then beheaded his girlfriend on the Greek island of Santorini

 

A 40-year-old man killed his girlfriend on the Greek island of Santorini, beheaded her, then tried to flee in a patrol car, a local official said.

 

He ran over two women doctors who were riding on a motorcycle before he was caught by police, the official said.

 

The unnamed suspect was shot by police five times and is undergoing surgery at an island hospital, said Chrysanthos Roussos, head of the Santorini district on the island.

 

Initially, the man roamed the village of Vourvoulos exhibiting the woman's head, Roussos said.

 

When a policeman tried to handcuff him, the suspect knifed the officer and flung the victim's head into a patrol car, Roussos said.

 

The suspect then made off in a second patrol car and ran over the motorcycle before he was caught, Roussos said. The two doctors suffered multiple fractures, Roussos added.

 

The suspect, from northern Greece, was reported to have worked at a local restaurant. The victim, said to be in her mid to late 20s, was a teacher in a local village, Angelos Roussos, the mayor of Thira, the island's main town, was quoted as saying by TV station Antenna.

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Seems to be catching on:

 

Man beheads girlfriend

Man killed then beheaded his girlfriend on the Greek island of Santorini

 

A 40-year-old man killed his girlfriend on the Greek island of Santorini, beheaded her, then tried to flee in a patrol car, a local official said.

 

He ran over two women doctors who were riding on a motorcycle before he was caught by police, the official said.

 

The unnamed suspect was shot by police five times and is undergoing surgery at an island hospital, said Chrysanthos Roussos, head of the Santorini district on the island.

 

Initially, the man roamed the village of Vourvoulos exhibiting the woman's head, Roussos said.

 

When a policeman tried to handcuff him, the suspect knifed the officer and flung the victim's head into a patrol car, Roussos said.

 

The suspect then made off in a second patrol car and ran over the motorcycle before he was caught, Roussos said. The two doctors suffered multiple fractures, Roussos added.

 

The suspect, from northern Greece, was reported to have worked at a local restaurant. The victim, said to be in her mid to late 20s, was a teacher in a local village, Angelos Roussos, the mayor of Thira, the island's main town, was quoted as saying by TV station Antenna.

 

Is it just me or does that sentence read like someone's thrown the English language down a set of stairs?

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