Sleeping man beheaded on Greyhound bus
TV: Passenger killed by seatmate with 'Rambo knife' in Canada's prairies
MSNBC News Services
updated 10:47 a.m. CT, Thurs., July. 31, 2008

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - A passenger sleeping on a Greyhound bus was killed and decapitated by his seatmate on Wednesday night as the vehicle rolled across the Canadian prairies, witnesses said.

"All of a sudden, we all heard this scream, this bloodcurdling scream," said Garnet Caton, who was sitting just in front of the victim, in an interview with CBC Television.

"The attacker was standing up right over top of the guy with a large hunting knife — a survival, Rambo knife — holding the guy and continually stabbing him, stabbing him, stabbing him in the chest area," Caton said.

The attack continued as other passengers fled the bus and waited for police on a desolated stretch of the TransCanada Highway near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, said Caton, who helped bar the bus door to prevent the attacker from leaving.

'No rage in him'
"He calmly walks up to the front (of the bus) with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us," Caton said.

"There was no rage in him ... It was just like he was a robot or something," Caton said.

Caton said the victim was stabbed up to 50 times.

A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer said the attack occurred while the vehicle was en route from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

CBC reported the Royal Canadian Mounted Police took the attacker into custody.

Authorities declined to provide other details of what they described as a "major incident."

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.


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Someone call the Brady Bunch!!!!......maybe they can ban knives too!!!!

couldn't just be that some times somebody just goes batfuck nuts?!?!?!.....did the knife make him do it?......let's blame the tool that he used, come one everyone, call your local papers and demand they run articles on the dangers of un-licensed cutlery!!!!

the anti-gunners need to see this shit - see that there are just some fucking nuts people out there, that even without a gun they are gonna snap and use a knife, or a screw driver, or baseball bat, golf club, 2x4.....whatever.....they snap, they kill with what ever tool the got handy......

this guy probably could have killed everyone on the bus before the RCM got there if he wanted to.

You make good points. It is definitely the operator and not the tool that is the problem in such incidents. If someone is bent on killing people, they can figure out a way to do it with or without a gun. Unless, of course, there is an adequately prepared law-abiding citizen with a gun to stop them.

The Brady Bunch might like to ban knives too. I'm sure they're terrified of them as well as guns. They would probably start with a ban on "fighting knives," and proceed from there.

The maniac on the bus probably could have killed at least several people on the bus if he hadn't spent so much time on the one guy. I am no expert on knife fighting, but my experience with killing wild hogs with a knife has made it abundantly clear that you can kill even a large, powerful creature quite quickly with a knife.

Law enforcement is necessarily almost entirely reactive, dealing with problems after the fact. Law-abiding citizens need to be able to defend themselves effectively. For most, that means having, and knowing how to use, a gun.

Did the knife have one of those "shoulder things"?

Arn't switch blades banned, I think there is a lobby to ban large bladed knives. At my work we are not allowed to carry a knife with a blade larger than 6". Don't laugh if it can be construde as a *weapon* the commies will try to ban it.

They just got off the bus,and did nothing?
That kind of shit is what one would expect from a bunch of bus riding Canadian Fairies!

Sorry RangerM9, I didn't see this and double posted the topic. Kudos to you for being the most awake!

So true! I wonder if that knife had an evil folding stock, flash hider, bayonet, bipod or a standard capacity magazine? We all know that Hillary told us that those are evil so they must have been on it......

bah!...no problem!

and now we have another shooting up here in WI......always something bad for us gun nuts going on.