Man stabbed, then beheaded on bus in Canada

[Juan Albion]

Yes, and I look forward to Monty Python also lampooning the beheading of a young lad on a bus, so I can get the appropriate name and avatar to go with it.

Keep stretching your imagination there JA

Not much of a stretch really, though, is it. Your avatar is of a person under whose leadership Jewish babies were swung by their feet in order to have their brains bashed out. I mean, that's up to you, if you are comfortable with that, but I suspect it rather disqualifies you from your moral grandstanding about people finding humour in a gruesome situation.

 

[NMH]

Not much of a stretch really, though, is it. Your avatar is of a person under whose leadership Jewish babies were swung by their feet in order to have their brains bashed out. I mean, that's up to you, if you are comfortable with that, but I suspect it rather disqualifies you from your moral grandstanding about people finding humour in a gruesome situation.

Right, bet you harbour a deep disgust for 'attilla' as well, then.

 

[Juan Albion]

Right, bet you harbour a deep disgust for 'attilla' as well, then.

I'm not the one expressing disgust for anyone. You are.

 

[Gritt23]

Did he die ?

I went from open mouthed horror, to genuinely LOL in the space of 4 posts. It's a gift Easy, truly .... a gift!

 

[Evil Edna]

Steve Lambert
THE CANADIAN PRESS

WINNIPEG–A man accused of beheading a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus uttered not a word in court today and the victim's friends were still at a loss as to how anyone could have attacked someone they say never hurt a soul.

"There was nothing in the world that could set him off or (make) him do anything wrong to anybody," said William Caron, who knew Tim McLean, 22, since Grade 7.

"As far as I've known him, he'd never got into a single fight in his whole life."

There were no answers from a courtroom in Portage la Prairie, Man., where Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton, made his first court appearance on a charge of second-degree murder.

Li – his face bruised, one hand bandaged and his legs shackled – quietly shuffled into the room with his head bowed. He did not make eye contact with anyone the entire time he was before the judge.

He would not even reply when the judge asked him if he was going to get a lawyer and only nodded slightly when asked whether he was exercising his right not to speak.

The accused, wearing a grey T-shirt and prisoner's vest, appeared to be about five-foot-eight or nine with a stocky build.

Passengers had described McLean's attacker as a big man who weighed at least 200 pounds.

The Crown asked for a psychiatric assessment, but the judge said he wanted to give Li a chance to talk to a lawyer about that.

"It's early and I think the judge just wants to respect his rights to ... speak to counsel and he's giving him that opportunity," Crown prosecutor Larry Hodgson said outside court. ``I don't think it will be very long that they'll allow him to do that (be without a lawyer)."

Li was charged after McLean died in a gruesome attack on a Greyhound bus that was travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg.

Police did not release details about his death. But passengers said the young man died in an appalling attack in which his seat-mate silently stood up and repeatedly stabbed him before severing his head and carving up his body.

Friends say they simply cannot understand why anyone would attack the thin young man, just five-feet, five inches tall, and by all accounts easy-going.

"He was just such an amazing guy. He had a great personality," McLean's longtime friend and Caron's wife, Jodi Lang, said on the lawn of their Winnipeg home.

McLean had been working at carnival booths and was coming home from Edmonton to be with his family. He led a mostly quiet life, preferring to spend time playing cards and the board game Risk, Caron said.

His friend liked to travel, which was the reason he spent three summers working the carnival circuit, Caron added.

"He never cared for sitting around, unless it was for a weekend with the guys playing Risk. He was always big on travelling. He didn't like to sit in one place."

McLean and Caron got their first tattoos together. Caron opted for a ghost riding a motorcycle. McLean chose a joker – a theme he would use for his Myspace web page under the name Jokawild, where he described his interests as "playin vids, chillin', havin a good time."

Hodgson couldn't offer many details about Li.

"I know he was from Edmonton. I don't know why he was on the bus. That's still under investigation."

The RCMP said Li has no known criminal record.

Hodgson said if Li doesn't get his own lawyer, the court could appoint one or the case could proceed anyway.

Li's next court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday in Portage la Prairie.

Meanwhile, tributes to the victim were pouring into social networking and media websites. A Facebook website called "R.I.P. Tim" quickly sprang up after news of the attack.

"I can't believe this is happening," wrote Leah Dryburgh of Winnipeg. "Tim, you were the best guy ever. You didn't deserve this at all."


Source TheStar.com | Canada | Police tape leaked, beheading victim mourned

 

[NMH]

I'm not the one expressing disgust for anyone. You are.

I don't get the joke about some victim of a real random nutjob beheading someone. "expressing disgust for everyone" is something you just made up, so you can fit that into your story about my avatar.


And go f*** yourself .

 

[NMH]

These jocular responses make me wonder..... are you lot living in a computer-game world or something?

Got any more, like about Al-Quida execution victims or something?

To save these pathetic pratts Icy Gull and Juan Albion from getting out the magnifying glass.

I don't think this says I'm "disgusted with everyone".

But I will admit I'm completely missing the joke about this event.

 

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....******

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

To save these pathetic pratts Icy Gull and Juan Albion from getting out the magnifying glass.

I don't think this says I'm "disgusted with everyone".

But I will admit I'm completely missing the joke about this event.

Leaving the avatar aside I totally agree with NHM. Anyone that makes a joke about this event needs to have a long hard look at themselves in the mirror imo.

 

[NMH]

....******

One of my black (Puerto-Rican) friends used to call me that; "wassup ******?".

I took it as a compliment, thanks.

 

[Juan Albion]

I don't get the joke about some victim of a real random nutjob beheading someone. "expressing disgust for everyone" is something you just made up, so you can fit that into your story about my avatar.

You clearly have no idea what you yourself are saying.

You expressed disgust at people making jokes about a tragic event. I merely agreed with someone who pointed out the hypocrisy in your position, given your avatar that makes light of one of the biggest "random nutjob"s of the last century. You obviously don't like your hypocrisy being pointed out and I don't blame you, since it does make you look rather silly.

I have not expressed disgust at anyone, not even you. You are the one who started having a go at people.

I suspect you are a lonely and confused person.

 

[NMH]

You clearly have no idea what you yourself are saying.

You expressed disgust at people making jokes about a tragic event. I merely agreed with someone who pointed out the hypocrisy in your position, given your avatar that makes light of one of the biggest "random nutjob"s of the last century. You obviously don't like your hypocrisy being pointed out and I don't blame you, since it does make you look rather silly.

I have not expressed disgust at anyone, not even you. You are the one who started having a go at people.

I suspect you are a lonely and confused person.

You are, yourself, coming across as a bit of a nutjob now.
Keep talking to the mirror though, if that helps.

 

[Juan Albion]

You are, yourself, coming across as a bit of a nutjob now.
Keep talking to the mirror though, if that helps.

You always know when someone has no argument when all they can resort to is throwing personal insults.

Instead why don't you do the adult thing and explain why we are wrong to say you are being hypocritical? Come on, why is it okay to make fun of Adolph Hitler and his six million+ victims and not this 'nutjob' on the bus? If you can give me some clear and lucid reasoning, please do so. If not, just be quiet for once.

 

[Icy Gull]

Leaving the avatar aside I totally agree with NHM. Anyone that makes a joke about this event needs to have a long hard look at themselves in the mirror imo.

Leaving aside the jokes about this nutter on a bus, anyone who can have a mass murderer as his avatar should take a long hard look at himself in the mirror imo.

 

[Juan Albion]

I'm going out for a while on my boat now. I'll have a little look when I get back and see if Mr Hilter has answered the question.

 

[NMH]

I'm going out for a while on my boat now. I'll have a little look when I get back and see if Mr Hilter has answered the question.

No, you are right - I retract all mention of my not finding it amusing, and change to finding it amusing that a young lad was violently attacked and beheaded.

Now, you give me a comparable joke that's funny about ...say.... the elderly lady murdered in Southwick, or perhaps somene who was killed in the World Trade Center.

I shall watch for your reply with interest, clown, knowing how hilarious you have been about someone in another country far enough away for you to feel detached about it.

 

[DJ Leon]

No, you are right - I retract all mention of my not finding it amusing, and change to finding it amusing that a young lad was violently attacked and beheaded.

Now, you give me a comparable joke that's funny about ...say.... the elderly lady murdered in Southwick, or perhaps somene who was killed in the World Trade Center.

I shall watch for your reply with interest, clown, knowing how hilarious you have been about someone in another country far enough away for you to feel detached about it.

Hahaha - you're wrong, you know it and you HATE it.

 

[Fungus]

Don't think this has been mentioned yet. On BBC 15 minutes ago: BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Gruesome crime shocks Greek isle

Police on the Greek island of Santorini have shot and injured a knifeman who decapitated his girlfriend and walked around the streets with her head.

 

[Box of Frogs]

I've seen plenty worse avatars than the one NMH has - Brighton till I die for example is one that makes me click off the page if one of my kids walks in the room, similarly Danny Seagulls last 'cartoon' effort. People have been using Hitler and his image for years in the attempt to make people laugh. Does that mean that Monty Python, Freddie Starr, Harry Enfield et al all condoned what Hitler did in the war? Of course it doesn't.

How many of those having a go at NMH's choice of avatar haven't laughed at a Fred West joke, or at Jim Davidson doing his 'hilarious' Chalky White character, or sat and chuckled at 'Allo 'Allo or Dads Army?

 

[Icy Gull]

I've seen plenty worse avatars than the one NMH has - Brighton till I die for example is one that makes me click off the page if one of my kids walks in the room, similarly Danny Seagulls last 'cartoon' effort. People have been using Hitler and his image for years in the attempt to make people laugh. Does that mean that Monty Python, Freddie Starr, Harry Enfield et al all condoned what Hitler did in the war? Of course it doesn't.

How many of those having a go at NMH's choice of avatar haven't laughed at a Fred West joke, or at Jim Davidson doing his 'hilarious' Chalky White character, or sat and chuckled at 'Allo 'Allo or Dads Army?

I think the bone of contention, for me anyway, is the hypocritic comments at the content of this thread whilst having that avatar rather than the fact that he has it.