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Man Accused of Stabbing, Decapitating Seatmate on Greyhound Bus in Canada

A passenger on a Greyhound bus traveling through Manitoba, Canada, is accused of repeatedly stabbing his seatmate before decapitating the man, CBC News reported.

On Wednesday evening, Canadian police detained an unidentified man suspected of the murder. The victim, also unnamed, appeared to be about 19 years old.

According to CBC News, the attacker was seated next to his victim, who was sleeping with headphones on, when he began stabbing him repeatedly with a large knife.

The suspect had been on the bus for about an hour and didn't even sit near his victim at first.

"He sat in the front at first, everything was normal," Passenger Garnet Caton said.

"We went to the next stop and he got off and had a smoke with another young lady there. When he got on the bus again, he came to the back near where I was sitting."

When the victim began screaming, the bus pulled over and more than 30 passengers fled. The driver, along with a passenger and a trucker who had stopped at the scene then boarded the bus in an attempt to help the victim, the CBC reported.

"When we came back on the bus, it was visible at the end of the bus he was cutting the guy's head off and pretty much gutting him up," Caton told the CBC.

The attacker reportedly lunged at the three men, who managed to trap him inside the bus until authorities arrived.

"While we were watching the door, he calmly walks up to the front with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us," said Caton.

Fellow passenger Cody Olmstead told Brandon radio station CKLQ that the man "dropped the head and went back and started cutting the body back up."

According to the CBC, passengers were traumatized by the event and many required counseling after witnessing the brutal attack.

@ Tom or Anyone know anything about how the Ghurkas train with the Khukri?

Hi,  I lived in India for awhile in the early 90's and mostly hung out with Northeasterners (mostly Nagas), but some Nepalis and Tibetans as well.  As I understand it, the kukri is sort of like the swiss army knife for Nepalis.  They use it for everything.  So, if the Nepali grew up in the countryside, they've probably been using kukris thier whole life.  Nagas are the same way with daos.  I just sort of think of everybody in that region as high-altitude hillbillies, and that is why I felt so at home among them.

What Leviathan, Craftyand Thai said about room to manuever is probably the most important thing to keep in mind.  You always want to leave enough space between you and the car in front of you to be able to drive around them.  I was told that you need to be able to see the bottom of thier rear tires, but you may need a bit more space than that.

There is a cool manuver you can do to escape, but you need lots of room behind you, and I wouldn't recommend doing it in your own car (rentals are sure handy).  It's been years since I've done it last so my description may be a little off.  The scenario is that you drive up to a roadblock.  Put the car in reverse, you let go of the steering wheel with your right hand, turn in your seat as far right as you can so that you can see clearly behind you.  Then you punch the accelerator and gain as much distance as you can.  Once you get to the point you can turn the car, let off the accelerator, and stomp on the brake while "throwing the streering wheel out of the driver's side window".  This will spin the car around like you see in the movies.

I used to have one of those little bats Thai mentioned.  I think that they are called tire thumpers here locally.