Man Decapitated on Greyhound Bus

[The Apatow Crew]

I really hate PETA

That's just really in poor taste.

 

[Matrixo]

I really hate when people are saying " Why didn't they do anything?!?!"

What did you want them to do, jump in front of his knife? No.

You wouldn't do it, I wouldn't do it. Now yes the whole bus could have stopped him but for what? Would you rather have one person die or several?

Please.

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I really hate when people are saying " Why didn't they do anything?!?!"

What did you want them to do, jump in front of his knife? No.

You wouldn't do it, I wouldn't do it. Now yes the whole bus could have stopped him but for what? Would you rather have one person die or several?

Please.

I know its like what someone else needs to be stabbed or hurt to what prove a point of what?

 

[Matrixo]

I know its like what someone else needs to be stabbed or hurt to what prove a point of what?

All they want is a hero story...

 

[The Apatow Crew]

All they want is a hero story...

I know. There's just somethings you can't do a thing about.

 

[Shifty]

That is awesome. The only way a-holes like the Westboro Church are going to be kept away from protesting things like this is if citizens band together to keep them away. They hide behind free speech laws (which I vehemently and adamantly defend, btw) to do what they do, but they should be prepared to pay the social consequences from their fellow humans for such actions in the same breath. Kudos to the folks who decided to take a stand against such malicious nonsense.

jag

It was. I was imagining a Springfield mob like atmosphere if they showed up.

Hundreds show support; U.S. protestors a no-show

By: Gabrielle Giroday

Updated: August 10 at 07:32 PM CDT

Seven months pregnant, Stacey Titterton stood on a sidewalk in sweltering heat Saturday afternoon to ensure a peaceful funeral for a slain 22-year-old man she'd never met.

Titterton, a 24-year-old restaurant server with a long shift still ahead of her that night, stood amongst hundreds of strangers lining the sidewalk of Westwood Drive while a funeral for Tim McLean took place across the street.


Titterton never met the young man who was reportedly stabbed and beheaded on a Greyhound bus July 30, but she was there to send a message to extremist protesters who had threatened to picket outside the funeral and disrupt family and friends of McLean's.

After much fanfare, those protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church of Kansas never arrived. However, an estimated 300 to 400 peaceful mourners came to pay their respects to the McLean family outside the church.

"I think we're a fairly strong community, so when someone starts bashing someone that died, that we will unite together. We have to show that Canada will not tolerate this," said Titterton, who was standing in the shade alongside a like-minded friend.

"I don't believe it's any of my personal business to be (inside the funeral), because I didn't know him. But I believe showing support outside, there's nothing wrong with that... this is just an honest, silent way of showing the way we feel."

Starting around 1 p.m., Winnipeggers crammed the sidewalks of the lush Westwood street in a peaceful blockade to stop the protesters.


People waited outside Westwood Community Church to protect the McLean family from any protesters who might show up. (Sarah Kearney / Winnipeg Free Press )

The Westboro protesters had threatened to picket the funeral with the message that McLean's death was God's punishment for Canada's policies that enable homosexuality, abortion and adultery. They never came, following promises by the Winnipeg Police Service anyone disrupting the funeral would be facing arrest. Several members of the group were also turned away from the Canadian border Thursday after Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day issued an alert.

"It was bad enough the way (the death) happened, without radicals coming up here and creating a problem," said Walter Fehr, a 60-year-old former truck driver from Transcona, who stood in beating sunlight with his wife Saturday beneath black umbrellas.

The umbrellas had a purpose -- the Fehrs said they'd brought them in case they needed to be used as shields over offensive signs being held up.

"It's so they can't get their point across," said Fehr, who said he's a former hippie who hadn't been compelled to participate in a similar event since the 1960s.

A circus-like atmosphere surrounded the funeral, with uniformed police officers posted at the doors and roof of the church, and a nearby business handing out small paper cups of smoothie samples to those waiting for hours in the muggy heat. A police spokesman told reporters before the funeral began that anyone creating a disturbance could be arrested under the Highway Traffic Act, or for other applicable offences.

Saturday afternoon, a large police vehicle inspection truck sat conspicuously on Westwood Drive, with news anchors and jostling photographers only metres away from amateur photographers and videographers shooting their own material of the spectacle. One heated mourner, a dreadlocked young woman who said she knew McLean, cooled herself off in a lawn sprinkler.

Just outside of street view, in a parking lot about 200 metres north of the church, at least seven police cruisers and another police van sat hidden while the funeral proceeded.

Shortly before the service ended, McLean's family was hustled out the rear door of the church on an alternate route, with at least one flashing police cruiser blocking the roadway. Around 5:30 p.m., the crowds on the street began to disperse, about four hours after they began gathering.

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[Matrixo]

So why where they going to protest this mans death?

What did he do "wrong"

 

[Shifty]

So why where they going to protest this mans death?

What did he do "wrong"

Live in Canada I guess.

Westboro said his way of life made God punish him and Canada for allowing adultery, gay marriage and abortion. They've never met the guy or know anything except all the nice things friends and family said about him. But because he died the way he did he must have been a bad person....

 

[Matrixo]

I hate them so much.

I remember they came to my town and some local punched one in the face, but they don't learn...

 

[tuffenoughtoroc]

Westboro Church protested (or attempted to) Heath Ledger's death along with several American soldiers. They hate everyone and I guess that prompts them to go out and say the victims deserve it because of their lifestyles, beliefs, and whatnot. According to them, we are all going to hell...quite laughable, actually.

 

[Yurka]

This story is horrifying and disgusting.


Edit: Also, the title of this thread mislead me. I thought the bus was involved in an accident or something and a passenger was decapitated. Not that a random passenger cut another random passengers head off with a hunting knife.

 

[Theweepeople]

Only Americans do this kind of ****ed up s***, not Canadians.

I totally agree. I'm sure canadians aren't racist either even though a friend of my family lost her brother as a result of a racially motivated hate crime in Canada. The criminal must have been American.

 

[Shifty]

Only Americans do this kind of ****ed up s***, not Canadians.

He was from China and has only lived in Canada for four years. Do some reading.

 

[C. Lee]

He was from China and has only lived in Canada for four years. Do some reading.

People who are ate up with hatred don't have time to read.

 

[jaguarr]

People who are ate up with idiocy don't have time to read.

Fixed.

jag

 

[Fanticon]

i think that the fact the everybody just ran is a crime itself. Unless this guy was 6foot5 heavy and deranged looking...beard, glass eye scars smelly and bad teeth...there should have been no reason why a bus of 10 even 20 grown adults couldn't subdue him. I'm not gonna play the whole "what would you do if you were in that situation" card...but still. A man was being killed...you get a stab wound or slash yourself and possibly save someones life, i could never live with not doing anything about it....canadians.

 

[JLBats]

I find the people who don't want to take a Greyhound because of this amusing.

I don't think it really matters where you are if a homicidal maniac decides he wants to decapitate and eat you.

 

[oakzap425]

i think that the fact the everybody just ran is a crime itself. Unless this guy was 6foot5 heavy and deranged looking...beard, glass eye scars smelly and bad teeth...there should have been no reason why a bus of 10 even 20 grown adults couldn't subdue him. I'm not gonna play the whole "what would you do if you were in that situation" card...but still. A man was being killed...you get a stab wound or slash yourself and possibly save someones life, i could never live with not doing anything about it....canadians.

Shut the **** up. Damn...


I'm so sick of stupid people.


Supposedly he was stabbed maybe 5 times before he died. There was no god damn time to save him. If you had any ****ing logic in your stupid ass head you'd realize that.


There were 36 other passengers not including the murderer and the victim.

He was stabbed 5 times.

Stab 1, happens before the scream. The screams alert passengers to an issue. Now considering this dude had on headphones, and there's evidence that people are watching dvd's, imagine how many other people have them on. Think of how many passengers may have been asleep as well, considering the victim was also. How alert are you when you have on headphones or wake up from sleep?

Stab 2 happens, every one realizes there's an issue. Bus stops.

I'm pretty sure between stabs 2 and 4 the boy was dead, especially if it's true that the stabbings were happening at or around the neck. He probably bled to death before the ****ing 5th stab.

NO ONE HAD ANY TIME TO DO ANY ****ING THING.


People need to get over this bravado ****, because when it gets right to it, you can talk all the **** you want, but you'd do not a damn thing in the same situation.

 

[Matrixo]

^ Thank you.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

That guy did say, if they make me get home too late and miss Hannah Montana, Heads are gonna roll.

 

[oakzap425]

That guy did say, if they make me get home too late and miss Hannah Montana, Heads are gonna roll.

:shakes head:

 

[Poeman]

unless someone on there was in the military or carrying a weapon this whole thing would freak anyone out...one is just not prepared for it

 

[Venomfan]

Live in Canada I guess.

Westboro said his way of life made God punish him and Canada for allowing adultery, gay marriage and abortion. They've never met the guy or know anything except all the nice things friends and family said about him. But because he died the way he did he must have been a bad person....

so they would have pickited the apostle Pauls funeral as well, he had his head chopped off, must have been God punishing him

 

[hammy]

unless someone on there was in the military or carrying a weapon this whole thing would freak anyone out...one is just not prepared for it

I think that's exactly right. It's just such an unexpected thing. But I do think there are people out there who would have reacted differently. Sometimes you just react without thinking. You just move. I can't say that I blame anyone because the shock and horror of it would have stunned people into disbelief, I'm sure. And there were kids on the bus and some people were probably worried about getting the kids out of there. But yeah, I do think there are those who would have intervened in some way. Not necessarily successfully.

 

[jaguarr]

Shut the **** up. Damn...


I'm so sick of stupid people.


Supposedly he was stabbed maybe 5 times before he died. There was no god damn time to save him. If you had any ****ing logic in your stupid ass head you'd realize that.


There were 36 other passengers not including the murderer and the victim.

He was stabbed 5 times.

Stab 1, happens before the scream. The screams alert passengers to an issue. Now considering this dude had on headphones, and there's evidence that people are watching dvd's, imagine how many other people have them on. Think of how many passengers may have been asleep as well, considering the victim was also. How alert are you when you have on headphones or wake up from sleep?

Stab 2 happens, every one realizes there's an issue. Bus stops.

I'm pretty sure between stabs 2 and 4 the boy was dead, especially if it's true that the stabbings were happening at or around the neck. He probably bled to death before the ****ing 5th stab.

NO ONE HAD ANY TIME TO DO ANY ****ING THING.


People need to get over this bravado ****, because when it gets right to it, you can talk all the **** you want, but you'd do not a damn thing in the same situation.

Everyone is brave and tough on the internet.

jag