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Police charge 40-year-old man over bus beheading

* August 2, 2008 - 9:52AM
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Police charged a suspect today with unpremeditated murder in the horrific stabbing, beheading and gutting of a fellow bus passenger returning home from a carnival in Western Canada.

Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton faces a charge of second-degree murder, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced.

- Man charged with unpremeditated murder
- Victim, 22, was homeward-bound carnival worker
- Killer wielded 'Rambo' knife: witnesses

The victim was 22 years old, police said. Friends identified him as Tim McLean, a happy-go-lucky young man who was returning home to Winnipeg from a job as a carnival worker in Edmonton.

According to reports, McLean had been listening to music and texting friends and family, his cheek pressed against the window of the bus, when his assailant struck suddenly, stabbing him repeatedly in the chest with a "big Rambo knife".

The other 34 passengers and the driver were jolted by "blood-curdling screams" and fled, bracing the door on their way out to trap the assailant inside the bus, witness Garnet Caton told public broadcaster CBC.

"He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times," said Caton.

The Legend of Zorro had been playing on tiny television screens on the bus as dusk approached and passengers had begun to doze off.

The victim's father told CBC he had received a text message from his son as the bus was leaving Brandon for the last leg of his 600 km journey, asking if he could stay a night.

Tim McLean Senior replied, of course, he could come home.

The suspect, described as a large man wearing sunglasses, had been on the bus for only an hour and did not sit near McLean at first, said Caton.

During a stop, the suspect smoked a cigarette and then moved to the back of the bus to find an empty seat next to McLean, stowing his bags in an overhead bin, he said.

Half an hour later, he struck.

Passengers scrambled over one another, according to witnesses cited by the Globe and Mail newspaper. An elderly woman was knocked to the floor. A mother seated at the rear threw her toddler several rows forward to get the child away from danger.

When Caton and two others returned to check on the victim, he said they saw the attacker "cutting the guy's head off and gutting him".

"While we were watching ... he calmly walked up to the front (of the bus) with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stared at us and dropped the head right in front of us."

"There was no rage in him and he wasn't swearing or cursing or anything, it was just like he was a robot or something."

Moments later, police surrounded the bus and arrested the man after a nearly three-hour standoff, an official said. "He was taunting police with the head in his hand out the window," said Caton.

The suspect eventually jumped out of a broken window of the bus parked on the side of the desolate highway, and was subdued by police, RCMP Sergeant Steve Colwell told a press conference.

"At this time, I'm not aware of what may have provoked this attack," Colwell said, refusing to comment on eyewitness accounts of the attack, which occured at 9 pm on Wednesday (1200 AEST Thursday) on a Greyhound bus traveling east from Edmonton to Winnipeg.

"I can confirm the victim was stabbed, and that the victim was pronounced dead at the scene," he said.

Overnight, a Facebook website called "R.I.P. Tim" sprang up after news of his death.

"This is one of the most horrific crimes I have ever heard in my life," said one posting.

"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."

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day called the attack "horrific".
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Thats right, K Rudd's great great etc grandmother stole undies!

Saints tell of all the sinners in PM's past
THE Prime Minister has received a two-volume compendium on his family links to free settlers and petty criminals, including an English street urchin who was sentenced to death for fleecing an eight-year-old of her dress and underwear in a toilet.

The volumes were given to Kevin Rudd at Kirribilli House yesterday morning by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who hailed the Prime Minister's genealogy as "true Aussie pedigree".

"The more people know about their ancestors, the greater appreciation they have for who they are individually here and now," the church elder, Terry Vinson, said. He handed over the volumes with a 72-page narrative of Mr Rudd's family story.

The books tell the tale of Mary Wade, Mr Rudd's paternal fifth great-grandmother, who had survived in London by sweeping the streets and begging for food before she got into mischief with an older girl in 1788. Together they "coaxed an eight-year-old girl into a privy where they stripped her of her dress, petticoats, a linen tippet and a cap, and absconded", the books record.

Wade was tried at the Old Bailey, where she declared: "I was in a good mind to have chucked her down the necessary and I wish I had done so". The necessary is another term for privy, an archaic word for toilet.

She was sentenced "to be hanged by the neck til she be dead" but after months in a rat-infested prison her sentence was commuted to serving as a convict in NSW from age 12.

Another convict relative, Catherine Lahey, was convicted for forging coins because she could not pay the weekly rent of one shilling and sixpence, and arrived in Sydney in 1800.

Convict Thomas Rudd, the Prime Minister's paternal fourth great-grandfather, became a founding father of Campbelltown. Two streets in the south-western Sydney suburb are named after him: Thomas Street and Rudd Road crisscross the late Rudd's 170-acre estate.

Other ancestors came out as free settlers and lived in Parramatta, Wagga Wagga and Tumut.
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Its a bit boring, but I will definantly be mentioning to people that Ruddies granma stole a pair of undies :D
 
Sometimes it can be good to have a discussion about current events & politics without the people who post in Current Events & Politics. ;)
 
I can't believe how brave the guy being interviewed in that video was. Those three men who went back on the bus with crowbars deserve some sort of medal.
 
Tim McLean's mother: "He was always such a forgetful boy, I remember we used to tell him he'd lose his head if it weren't attached."
 
^I laughed. But I feel bad for it.

Good idea for a thread. It's like putting the best bits of all different news in one place.
 
No red eyes as camera returned

Friday 1 August, 2008 12:01am

SOME "really good detective work" by two strangers has saved irreplaceable memories for a Central Coast family.

The Moore family, of Umina Beach, lost a digital camera earlier this month and never expected to see it again.

Kathleen Moore said she was driving with her husband and children through Tuggerah when she thought the camera slipped off the dashboard of their car and fell out an open window at a roundabout without them noticing.

The camera was found by Bill Martin, of Chittaway Bay, and his son Kyle who picked it up from the road and went through the photos looking for clues to the owner.

"First of all they found a photo of my husband with his car and they rang the police to see if they could let them know who owned the car," Mrs Moore said.

"But the police said they couldn't give them that information so again they went through all the photos and noticed a sticker on the car for a Penrith motor dealership."

Mr Martin then rang the dealership and they put the two parties in touch.

"We're just so thankful to them," Mrs Moore said.

"We're really happy to get the photos back."

Mr Martin's father-in-law then dropped the camera off to the Moores' house.

"It has special photos on it of my 50th when I went to see my dad," Mrs Moore said.

"It was really lovely for them to do what they did and they certainly went to a lot of trouble."

"We just want to thank them in any way we can for going to so much effort."

http://expressadvocate.com.au/article/2008/08/01/6456_news.html
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Driver abuses speed limit and himself, court told

A TERRITORY man filmed himself speeding at 150km/h while masturbating at the wheel of his drug-laden car, a court heard.

His Holden SV6 was allegedly laden with 5kg of drugs, including two cannabis plants resting on the back seat, the court was told.

Brendon Alan Erhardt, 39, was granted bail so he could marry his girlfriend of six months.

Prosecutor Sergeant Melinda Edwards said in court the father-of-three told police he "had masturbated while driving'' just before he was stopped for speeding on the 130km/h stretch of the Stuart Hwy.

"(He) also video recorded himself masturbating while travelling at a speed of 150km/h.''

Sgt Edwards said Mr Erhardt -- who was disqualified from driving -- also told officers his act was "not dangerous'' as the "only person he could hurt was himself''.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24105715-5005941,00.html
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No way this wasnt a bluelighter.

So which one you was it? I would have guessed it was NickyJ but i know his whereabouts recently
 
what a carry on about nothing.................He was only about 15% over the legal limit............its like being caught for doing 70 in a 60 zone.

Media beat up.
 
^ yea and he had 5 kilos of drugs collectively stored in the back seat and the boot of his car.

But other than that, total media beat up. More like beat off amirite. HIYO.

I think the real crime here is that he was using a phone while driving... and masturbating while driving... and speeding... and transporting illegal drugs...
 
To be serious for a second:

MazDan said:
it's like being caught for doing 70 in a 60 zone.
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I don't think it's all that similar. At 150 k's someone's perceptual system is put under a much higher strain than at 70 k's. We just aren't built to handle those kind of speeds safely. Keep in mind that one must be observing what is going on and could be required at any given time to act on those observations by suddenly breaking or swerving, which creates even more strain on the perceptual system as adjustments are made in judgment of speed during sudden drops in speed or changes in trajectory... (is it obvious that I went to a lecture where this stuff was mentioned just the other day. ;))

I'm sure it's fine on a race track, but on an actual road there is all sorts of possibilities, such as debris on the road, pedestrians, animals crossing the road, other cars, objects on the side of the road that could lead to quick decisions having to be made. I think one's ability to make those decisions is impaired much more at 150 k's than at 70 k's.
 
Rated E said:
I'm sure it's fine on a race track, but on an actual road there is all sorts of possibilities, such as debris on the road, pedestrians, animals crossing the road, other cars, objects on the side of the road......
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..... hitting the vinegar strokes as your nearing a bend.

Sounds like Mazza is way out of line here.

But then again I heard a rumour that he wanks whilst he plays Gran Turismo so he is probably the most experienced at handling the topic
 
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