[CKid]

So I go to pickup the local morning paper and this is on the front page: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/story/4206568p-4798819c.html

BRANDON - Thirty-six passengers of a Greyhound bus travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg Wednesday night watched in horror as a fellow passenger stabbed another man sleeping next to him, eventually decapitating him and waving the man's severed head.

I could never have believed that this kind of **** could happen here on the prairies.

[Nuclear1]

Silly Canadians.

[colecampbell666]

Silly prairie-goers.

That's horrible, although you should take a look at East-Vancouver or Toronto, or even some of the bad parts of Halifax.

[Mars]

Makes me appreciate the Canadian government though, according to the BBC, all of the people on the bus are being given crisis counseling.

[Whitelight]

Makes me ask one question, why?

What did the sleeping man do that was so horrible to be deheaded. 

Probable answer.... He was snoring to loud!!!!!

[MP-Ryan]

Mental illness is a horrible thing.

[Nuke]

cool. its just sad i didnt think of it first.

[BlackDove]

I'm fairly certain I would be decapitating people left and right if I ever found myself in Winnipeg.

[NGTM-1R]

So what exactly did this guy use to cut his head off, a pocket knife?

[Mars]

So what exactly did this guy use to cut his head off, a pocket knife?

Witness on the BBC called it a “rambo knife” which makes me think it was something like a ka-bar

Man decapitated on Canadian bus
Police investigate the scene near Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada
Police say they do not know what may have provoked the attack

A man on a Greyhound bus travelling across the Canadian Prairies has killed and decapitated a fellow passenger.

An eyewitness said the victim was stabbed 50 or 60 times by the man sitting next to him, who then severed his head with a large knife.

The driver pulled over and passengers fled from the bus, bracing the door to keep the attacker inside.

A 40-year-old man was arrested after a stand-off lasting several hours and remains in police custody.

The bus, with 37 passengers and a driver aboard, was travelling from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

"All of a sudden, we all heard this scream, this bloodcurdling scream," passenger Garnet Caton told CBC television.

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

'Like a robot'

Bus passenger describes the attack

The attack continued as passengers fled the bus and waited for police on a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.

Mr Caton, the bus driver and a trucker who had stopped at the scene boarded the vehicle to see if the victim was still alive.

"When we came back on the bus... he was cutting the guy's head off and pretty much gutting him up," Mr Caton said.

The attacker ran at them, Mr Caton said, and they ran out of the bus, holding the door shut to prevent him getting out.

"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," Mr Caton said.

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

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A 40-year-old man was arrested by police at around 0100 (0700 GMT) on Wednesday night, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt Steve Colwell told reporters.

He said that police apprehended the suspect after a confrontation lasting several hours when the man broke a bus window and tried to escape.

The man has not yet been charged, Sgt Colwell said, adding that he could release no further information on the investigation.

The RCMP have not identified the suspect or the victim.

When the attacker tried to drive the bus away, the driver disabled the vehicle.

"Some people were puking, some people were crying, other people were in shock ... everybody was running, screaming off the bus," Mr Caton said.

Sgt Colwell said the "brave" behaviour of the passengers and driver probably prevented anyone else from being hurt.

Other passengers said that the attacker and his victim were sitting at the back of the bus and the victim, described as around 20 years old, was listening to music through headphones.

The attack appeared to be unprovoked and it is thought the killer did not know his victim.

The passengers have been taken to a hotel in Brandon, Manitoba, and are being given crisis counselling.

Man decapitated on Canadian bus

[Mefustae]

This is the time of the Indigo Prophecy. The child will soon appear to us.

[Goober5000]

Hmm.

1) A grotesque, unprovoked, over-the-top attack, culminating in evisceration and decapitation
2) Victim chosen apparently at random, or for convenience
3) "There was no rage in him ... It was just like he was a robot or something"

You know, this smells like a case of demon possession.

[Ransom]

no goober

you are the demons

[highwayman]

If this happened in the US, we'd already have pundits/senators/reps/right-wingers blaming this on video game violence.

[neo_hermes]

jack thompson or whatever his name is...does seem to be gone now so we do seem to have a void.

[colecampbell666]

So what exactly did this guy use to cut his head off, a pocket knife?

It was said in the article to be a large kitchen knife.

no goober

you are the demons

And then Goober was the demons.

[Galemp]

More than anything else I just want to know what prompted this.

Hell, I'VE been the twenty-something sleeping on a Greyhound bus next to some weirdo more than once. This freaks me out.

[colecampbell666]

I think he is probably mentally ill, unlike the retards who claim mental illness to justify murdering someone.

[blackhole]

I demand to know how someone so obviously disturbed could have managed to stay out of a mental institution until he was 20.

[Ford Prefect]

Actually, early to mid twenties is usually when schizophrenia manifests itself. Granted, there are usually warning signs long before, but under the wrong set of circumstances they could certainly be overlooked.

EDIT: But that's irrelevant because the guy was in his 40s. The victim was in his twenties.