Posted on 08/01/2008 3:03:47 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Canada is always anxious to be a big player on the world stage.
But not like this.
The beheading of an apparent complete stranger on board a Greyhound bus in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba Wednesday night has made headlines around the planet. The story has been featured in Britain, Ireland, Australia, The Netherlands, Hong Kong and of course, the U.S.
International agencies like The Associated Press, AFP and Reuters have also spread the details worldwide.
It was the number one item on the BBC's website and it placed second on CNN's online counterpart. Even bloggers have picked up the gruesome tale, adding their own sometimes eerie and speculative comments to the mix.
"I found it scary seeing as how I used to take Greyhounds to Canada!!!" one wrote. "I doubt I ever will again, especially now."
Others were critical of the already traumatized passengers who watched the incident unfold. "37 people didn't have anything to throw at him? 37 people couldn't have over powered one guy with a knife?" an outraged poster asks. "Isn't this the same mentality that allowed 2 or 3 idiots with box cutters to take out the Twin Towers?"
"No handguns allowed in Canada, we know. But no woman had a purse to bonk him on the head?" another queries. "No one bothered to throw a can of diet Coke at the guy's head? Who was on the bus? The Old Ladies' Home and Gardening Society?"
And still a third called Canadians "panzies" (sic) for not doing anything to stop it.
(Excerpt) Read more at citynews.ca ...
What's worse - cutting a man's head off on a bus and displaying it as a trophy to a shocked crowd, or fretting about what people might think about it?
OK I guess the head thing would be worse... but it's still disturbed any way you look at it!
Yet nothing at CNN and elsewhere about the House “Lights Out”.
They don't know what the motive was but they know what it wasn't? Somehow that doesn't compute.
I don't think terrorism was behind it, since his name was Chinese, not Muslim. But I don't KNOW it, and I don't see how the police or the reporter can be so absolutely sure of it.
No doubt many people would be stupified by a sudden attack like this, and would panic just as the passengers of the bus did. But is it totally out of the question to wonder why nobody did anything to at least slow the murderer down or inconvenience him a little?
But while authorities here admit they don't yet know the motive for the murder, they're adamant terror wasn't behind it.
If authorities don't know the motive, how can they be so damn sure it wasn't terrorism??????
I recall the same dumb-assed statement being issued at the start of the DC sniper killings and it turned out that it was terrorism although the official line still is that Malvo and his pet goat just went beserk for reasons unknown, but probably due to his Gulf War service more than a decade before and not to his conversion to the Religion of Peace much more recently.
“And still a third called Canadians “panzies” (sic) for not doing anything to stop it.”
I’m pretty sure the victim was dead before anyone really knew what was going on.
After that, if the maniac is keeping himself occupied cutting the guy’s head off, okay by me.
When I first saw the report I did indeed wonder why nobody made a move on the perp while he was stabbing the victim 50 times.
I don't know how accurate the information was, but I suspect the victim didn't have much of a chance after the first few plunges of the knife. The knife apparently had a sizable blade so the other passengers may have not acted against the perp out of self preservation by basically doing nothing.
They were lucky he was satisfied by only one kill.
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Far from “aboriginal” as initial reports suggested.
Killer Cannibal Beheader = Vince Weiguang Li
Usually I would be the type to head toward trouble. Not on this one. To try and take on a nut with a knive with a shoe and a bus ticket would be suicide. To have any chance you would need maneuvering room. Which is exactly what you don’t have on a bus. I’d be out the door. If there wasn’t one, I’d make one.
Am I missing something? Did they actually point out anything that was misreported?
They talked about the gun thing and people “doing nothing” but didn’t specifically dispute the fact, simply excused it.
I haven’t read the articles but....what “really” happened. This article doesn’t say or correct.
I understand that he stabbed the guy, and while everyone was running from the psycho with the knife, he decapitated the young man before some of the passengers got back on the bus to confront him. He came running at these passengers, with the knife, and the head, and then returned to mutilate the body after being locked in the bus.
Yes, a lot of Muslims in China, but don’t most of them have different naming customs and live out in the back of beyond?
Leftist Canadian society and citizens are simply displaying the value they place upon themselves.
First reports tend to be a little short in the details.
Whoa!
Thanks for that link.
Ping.
True, and considering the circumstances here, ....well, the whole thing is just hard to believe.
Although I guess it happens daily in the middle east. *shudder*
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