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Greyhound scraps ads after Canada bus beheading
AP via SFGate ^ | 8/6/8 | ROB GILLIES, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 08/06/2008 12:51:54 PM PDT by SmithL

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41 posted on 08/06/2008 1:47:06 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: SmithL

At first I thought this might have been a sick prank using a dummy.


42 posted on 08/06/2008 1:49:40 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
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To: Flycatcher

He was Chinese. Now eat your vegetables. There’s starving children....


43 posted on 08/06/2008 1:51:06 PM PDT by TNdandelion (It's Buh-rack Uh-bama for uh hope and uh change.)
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To: weegee
"Greyhound, where riders always come out ahead"
44 posted on 08/06/2008 2:06:33 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: Argus
"Greyhound - Head and shoulders above the rest.”

"Greyhound - Neck and Shoulders above the rest."

45 posted on 08/06/2008 2:08:04 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: SmithL

Official Canadian Government press release:
“37 comrades stood by, horrified, until their Socialist government came to the rescue and saved the young man. Proving once again that ordinary citizens have no need to carry personal firearms for their own protection. The rest of the passengers were allowed to continue their trip, after displaying ‘zer travel paypairz’ of course.”

CANADA: “Proving the US Constitution to be correct every time we open our mouths!”

GREYHOUND: “Now serving warm meals on some trips!”


46 posted on 08/06/2008 2:09:57 PM PDT by Ignatz (Why not enjoy the occasional swede?)
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To: fleagle

Freakin’ AWESOME!!!


47 posted on 08/06/2008 2:14:19 PM PDT by Xenalyte (~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~)
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To: SmithL
Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler.

Now, you have to admit that's one heck of a lead sentence. The "accused," however, weakens it a little. "The passenger allegedly stabbed his alleged seat mate fifty times, allegedly cut off his alleged head, and allegedly stood holding it out to other alleged passengers whilst allegedly slicing bite-sized portions of his alleged victim and allegedly gobbling them like an allegedly rabid wolverine." I guess you gotta cover your legal six but Strunk and White have to be spinning in their alleged graves...

48 posted on 08/06/2008 2:18:07 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
Sounds like this is a job for just one man!

Be Seeing You,

Chris

49 posted on 08/06/2008 2:23:18 PM PDT by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
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To: richmwill
I’m laughing my head off over here...

Me too!! That's what I love about FReepers. They can be hilarious. :o)

50 posted on 08/06/2008 2:53:30 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (A TAXPAYER VOTING FOR BARACK OBAMA IS LIKE A CHICKEN VOTING FOR COLONEL SANDERS!)
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To: SmithL

If members of congress would only ride busses.


51 posted on 08/06/2008 3:03:21 PM PDT by Gator113 (Drill here, drill now...... or die.)
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To: Bon mots

You should have said "leave the dining to us. LOL

52 posted on 08/06/2008 3:04:14 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (A TAXPAYER VOTING FOR BARACK OBAMA IS LIKE A CHICKEN VOTING FOR COLONEL SANDERS!)
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Passenger #1: Dude! Don’t go falling asleep all over me!

Passenger #2: Bite Me!


53 posted on 08/06/2008 3:04:31 PM PDT by SmithL (Drill Dammit!)
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You guys do any aborted baby jokes? You could have 3,000 original targets a day, in this country alone.

The reality is someone was brutally murdered in their sleep. I’ll remember threads like this when I see people decrying how violent we all are and how ‘desensitized’ we have become to irrational violence due to the violent media. “Don’t they know life is precious??!?”

Yeah, I know, I need a sense of humor...no thanks, there are plenty of actually humorous things to laugh at besides a bizarre, brutal murder. Gallows humor is funny to the ‘hangee’ only when the joker is sharing his predicament, otherwise its likely to get you five across the teeth. But wait, some insane guy decapitated this poor guy while he screamed, so its safe! hahahahahahahahahaha! Thats using your head! Still not funny, and pretty predictable.


54 posted on 08/06/2008 3:31:03 PM PDT by White Rutter
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To: Catholic Canadian
He's a fairly recent immigrant from Western China.

Which is the part where the Islamics are concentrated.

55 posted on 08/06/2008 3:57:54 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Bon mots

I am going to hell now for LOL at this....thanks alot!!!

LOL


56 posted on 08/06/2008 4:15:08 PM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: SmithL

Sorry to be a serious poster, but...What a sick, sick world we are living in, where people must experience such dreadful trauma in every day life. Lord, help us.


57 posted on 08/06/2008 9:42:54 PM PDT by taraytarah (Did you check your tire pressure today?)
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To: White Rutter
PETA is trying to squeeze an ad campaign of their own out of this story (no joke):

PETA's beheading ad spurned (globeandmail.com August 6, 2008)

I made the following observation...

It would be more appropriate to compare the way Al Qaeda muslims slashed the throat of Nick Berg to the way that muslims ritually slaughter animals.

But that delivers a politically incorrect message about animal abuse.

58 posted on 08/07/2008 7:40:37 AM PDT by weegee (Hi there.)
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To: Billthedrill

I get even MORE peeved when they say someone goes on a rampage and is shot dead at the scene and then the news reported says that the ALLEGED attacker was shot dead at the scene by authorities (or someone carrying).

I always respond “Well since it was only ALLEGED to have done this horrific act, I HOPE they got the RIGHT guy.”

There are no trials for the dead. There can be no conviction without a trial. That “alleged” attacker will never be prosecuted. But you can’t libel the dead. The editors should brass up a pair and be honest in reporting that the ATTACKER was killed dead at the scene.

In this bus attack, the motive may be unknown, but again the FACTS of the case are he was observed by the passengers killing this man. Saying that they “allege” he killed this man means it could’ve been SOMEONE ELSE on the bus who killed him; you can’t cut your own head off with a knife.


59 posted on 08/07/2008 7:46:22 AM PDT by weegee (Hi there.)
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To: Catholic Canadian
He's a fairly recent immigrant from Western China.

I think the 16 chinese policemen that were killed the other day were killed in western China by, I think Muslim terrorists. So if this guy is from western China........?

60 posted on 08/07/2008 8:12:43 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (Choosing between McInsane and Obamapalooza is like choosing to ingest a slow or fast-acting poison.)
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