Yow!
Do you need another reason never to take the bus?
BRANDON, Man. — Thirty-six passengers of a Greyhound bus travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg Wednesday night watched in horror as a fellow passenger reportedly stabbed another man sleeping next to him, eventually decapitating him and waving the man’s severed head.
“He didn’t do anything to provoke the guy. They guy just took a knife out and stabbed him, started stabbing him like crazy and cut his head off,” said Garnet Caton, 36, a passenger.
And yes, it’s Greyhound:
Abby Wambaugh, a Greyhound spokeswoman in Dallas, Tex., confirmed this morning that there was an incident, but would not describe what exactly happened.
The last time I rode Greyhound a mother tried to pimp her 13 year-old daughter to me. That sort of pales compared to this, though.
palisadesk:
You missed the part about anthropophagy:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hx-mB9K812hwZqPx4HhsRsgjT7YwD92AF3M80
Double YOW!
The motto for bus travel might be, “Expect the Unexpected.” My experience was somewhat more upbeat. I had occasion to take Greyhound from D.C. to around Winchester, Va. to spend a weekend with relatives. I sat beside an older black man who identified himself as a farm worker. He noticed I was reading Teilhard de Chardin’s “Phenomenon of Man” and started talking excitedly about the ideas (Omega Point, cosmology, etc.) therein — he had read several TdC tomes. Turned out he was an omnifarious and enthusiastic reader, who had dropped out of school to work in the fields after fifth grade.
I was first amazed, then inspired, by his wide-ranging knowledge and true intellectual curiosity (something I rarely see in educators, even at the college level). The encounter left me with a profound sense of the power of reading and of ideas.
August 5, 2008, 9:55 am