Greyhound buses

A passenger repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a young man aboard a Greyhound bus travelling through Manitoba overnight in what appears to be a random attack, a witness said Thursday.

Police officers spent the night examining a Greyhound bus where a passenger was reportedly stabbed and decapitated late Wednesday.Police officers spent the night examining a Greyhound bus where a passenger was reportedly stabbed and decapitated late Wednesday. (John Woods/Canadian Press)The RCMP would not confirm the reports, only saying that a "major incident" took place late Wednesday evening on the bus as it drove along the Trans-Canada Highway en route to Winnipeg from Edmonton.

A man was taken into custody after an hours-long standoff with police ended around 1 a.m. near Portage la Prairie, a city about 85 kilometres west of Winnipeg, according to reports.

Passenger Garnet Caton, who was sitting in the seat in front of the victim, told CBC News in gruesome detail how he saw the attacker stab his seatmate, a young man sleeping with his headphones on.

Caton said he heard a "blood-curdling scream" and turned around to see the attacker holding a large "Rambo" hunting knife above the victim, "continually stabbing him in the chest area."

"He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times," said Caton.

As panicked passengers fled the bus, "the attacker was over top of the victim … continually cutting him. I think the victim was gone at that point," Caton said.
Trio tried to check on victim

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

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

The attacker ran at them, Caton said, and they ran out of the bus, holding the door shut as he tried to slash at the trio.

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

"While we were watching the door, he calmly walks up to the front with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us," said Caton.
Acted 'like he was a robot'

Caton described the attacker as surprisingly calm. "It was like he was at the beach or something. There was no rage in him. He wasn't swearing or cursing or anything. It was just like he was a robot or something."

Police cruisers arrived about 10 minutes after the attack began, he estimates, and officers began directing passengers to school buses to take them to a hotel in Brandon.

"While we were waiting on the side of the road, [the attacker] was taunting the police with the head in his hand," said Caton.

Caton described the attacker as appearing "totally normal" earlier in the journey, even chatting with a young woman as he smoked a cigarette during a break.

But when he got back on the bus, he moved his belongings from the front to a seat beside the victim in the back and about 20 minutes later began attacking the man, said Caton. "He didn't say anything to the victim at all," said Caton.
'Pretty traumatic'

A six-year-old and other children were among the passengers who saw the horrific incident unfold, said Caton.

"It was pretty traumatic," he said, adding that some passengers said they have been unable to sleep or eat since it happened.

A chaplain and crisis team were on hand to counsel passengers at the hotel, he said.

Officers were still at the scene early Thursday and brought portable search lights to examine the bus, the CBC's Sean Kavanagh reported. Traffic was being rerouted to a side road.

Abby Wambaugh, media relations spokeswoman for Greyhound Canada, said there were 37 passengers and a driver aboard the bus.

She would not comment on what happened on the bus.

"I don't want to compromise the investigation, so any details need to be confirmed by the police," she said.

 

I'm pretty sure this is old news. I remember hearing about this a long time ago.

it doesn't surprise me at all. I've spent more time on Greyhound's than most people, they can get pretty sketchy.

 

this. but I still lol everytime.

Same here, some crazy fuckers on there. Especially at the Chicago terminal.

 

Its old...but its back in the news because the trial just started

 

Its new to me.

The sad part is this is about 50% better service than you typically get one greyhound buses.

 

true old

 

o yea haha, I've been through that one a few times and know what you're talking about. I met this one cat there who was headed up to Grand Rapids, we had a good conversation about DMT.
in my experience the one in Pittsburgh is the worst.

 

If you dont know the whole story....dig around google some more....its so much more gruesome than the part you posted....espescially the eye,tongue and ziplock parts

 

Greyhound is just working class America on wheels.

 

This is very very old news.

 

"greyhound bus company is one of the worst run, bullshit companies i have ever had the misfortune to use. they are a total monopoly and take advantage of that with poor service and price hikes and route cancellation. they have bought all the other smaller companies and run them out of their office in dallas. they treat both their employees and customers like shit. they are a cancer.

since i do not drive i used to use them to get to shows (when nothing else was available). on many occasions i had to cancel shows because the bus would be late, my luggage would get lost/stolen, the over sell their buses, and fuck i fucking hate them.

it really upsets me that i am being used to promote them. if i had my way i would see all their buses transport guns to all the people they have fucked over.

like many evil companies they are trying to use subversive advertising and i will not allow myself to be a cog in their wheel of lies and deceit. these rats stink like rotten cum. fuck them with 1000 fires.

in case this message finds its way to someone in the advertising department of greyhound: eat my shorts you dickless pig fuckers."

-Dan Deacon

 

Fuck a Pittsburgh terminal, I hate that dump. Had a few layovers there.
In Chicago, did you meet the bull trying to sell his hiphop cd? Mo fugger is there every time I roll thru

 

Dan Deacon is right. they're all about fucking over the working man. can't wait for Bromst to come out in a couple weeks.

 

It's streaming right now on NPR

 

It is old news I remember reading about it a while back


Hotwater

 

Well a couple who were on the bus, are claiming that their lives have been ruined, and that they can't function anymore, and are now preparing to sue the government, greyhound and the man who commited the crime...

unreal

 

the Pittsburgh one is the only one where I can't go outside and smoke a cigarette in peace. I don't mind people hitting me up for change or cigarettes but there's always like 5 or 6 dudes who swarm up on me when I'm dead tired during a layover at 4 in the morning.
I never saw that guy. it seems like all I ever meet on those are religious and/or conspiracy theory folks. at least last time this cute Portland chick fell asleep on me.

 

I got to get on that

 

Here's the perp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5UHdGKHTEc

"Leave the driving to us, and we'll leave the killing and beheading to you"


Hotwater

 

It just went up today.