"Man. . .Totally Calm During Attack"

[CLHC]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080731.wmanbus0731/BNStory/National/home

The above is a news link regarding a tragic attack in a Greyhound Bus up in Canada.

 

[LumenHound]

The Globe and stale is a Toronto daily. One of the other 2 competing newspapers in Toronto sported the two word headline "BUS BEHEADING".

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[da.gee]

This is so shocking to me. It was on CNN web site. I'd sure like to know some additional details. WHo was the attacker and what was his motive? Could just be a mentally disturbed freak. Man, too strange.

 

[asdalton]

The American Media complex has been mostly silent about what took place. I found this odd..... until I found out one detail about the Attacker. :ironic:

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[MarNav1]

Manchurian Candidate.

 

[CLHC]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/08/01/canada.beheading/index.html?iref=newssearch#cnnSTCVideo

Here's the video of the suspect.

 

[Black Rose]

Here's some links from the CBC:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/07/31/greyhound-transcanada.html

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/08/01/stabbing-victim.html

It's mind numbingly disturbing to think that someone could do something like that, whether premeditated or at random.

 

[nerdgineer]

It'll become clear when his image is released to the Public.

Huh? So you're suggesting that the US media downplayed the story because the perp is Asian? (or short? or has a buzz cut?...)

And that means that the US media is biased (for? against?) Asians how?

No offense, but am I missing something?

 

[jzmtl]

I think it's got more to do with american media doesn't care about anything going on outside u.s. than that.

 

[Empath]

There are some posts that have been removed. Rather than shut the thread down for becoming an ethnic commentary or political discussion, we've removed the posts pushing it in that direction.

This news event is significant. Let's try to keep it relevant to the actual story.

 

[baterija]

I think it's got more to do with american media doesn't care about anything going on outside u.s. than that.

+1, although in this case I would say it's apparently not a story that has major international implications. It's just one tragic, shocking, brutal,and appalling event. It has gotten almost as much play as the recent capture of Radovan Karadzic. Not sure if that's more an indictment of the American media or the American populace though.

 

[CLHC]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/02/canada.bus.stabbing.ap/index.html

As if beheading was gruesome enough, the suspect defiled the body by anthropophag[izing] him?

 

[PhotonWrangler]

IMO, this guy is severely mentally ill. He was acting as if he was living in a movie rather than real life. How does a guy like that slip through life unnoticed until he does something like this?
:shakehead

 

[Monocrom]

There are some posts that have been removed....

This news event is significant. Let's try to keep it relevant to the actual story.

Sorry that you found my earlier posts to be "inappropriate."

Okay, relevant to the topic.... Did the police mention what type of knife the EDP used?

 

[jzmtl]

Nothing other than what another passenger described as "big rambo hunting knife"

I hope this doesn't bring all the anti-knife fanatics out of their holes...

 

[Monocrom]

Nothing other than what another passenger described as "big rambo hunting knife"

I hope this doesn't bring all the anti-knife fanatics out of their holes...

This likely will.... with that type of description. Knowing what's commonly used in the real world in most knife attacks, I'm willing to bet it was more along the lines of a large Butcher's knife. Something commonly available and that everyone has in their kitchen.

 

[jzmtl]

It is, it's backed by statistics in fact, that's why doctors in u.k are recommanding banning pointy kitchen knives. :duh2:

"Of course criminals could make them pointy again, but that would be illegal!", this is an actual quote from a u.k. news piece, wel duh, so is stabbing people to begin with...

 

[NA8]

Just another looney toon. Doesn't matter if it was a knife, a car, a gun, poison, or a shove down the stairs.

 

[jzmtl]

Wow, this is even more disgusting, PETA is now using this for their ads...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2008/08/06/peta-mclean.html?ref=rss

 

[Black Rose]

And then there's the lunatic fringe coming to protest at the funeral :thumbsdow