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August 03, 2008 | Tags: none

Maybe it’s just America’s general self-centeredness when it comes to news coverage, but I can’t remember hearing many news stories pertaining to Canada that really stuck with me. But I think I finally found one that will! Chances are that you heard about the beheading of a passenger on a Canadian Greyhound bus by now. As if it wasn’t bad enough that someone got their dome sliced off (that’s some sick shit, and if you don’t believe me, go watch one over in Saudi Arabia), now it seems as if the suspect actually sat and ate the victim’s flesh as he carved away at the body.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/02/canada.bus.stabbing.ap/index.html

That’s some insanity right there, son!

And the craziest part about it is that once the suspect was identified, his former employer came out and started talking about how he was this “model employee” and never would have expected something like this from him.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/02/world/main4316778.shtml

Sidenote: Does anybody else find it interesting that they were watching “The Legend of Zorro” on the bus while this went down?

But seriously, this is unsettling for quite a few reasons. First of all, this was just plain disturbing, and I can’t even imagine what it would have been like to have caught a glimpse of the scene firsthand. Secondly, what would drive a person to randomly slice someone (assuming it was indeed a random act)? And in relation to that, what in the world would drive your mind to have the desire to eat a human being? I get that carnivores eat animals, and humans are carnivores (well, omnivores), and we are also animals (mammals, to be exact) but my human instinct has never told me to go chow down on some human flesh just because I was hungry or something. Even in school when I’d forget to bring something to eat in the morning and I was getting denied hall passes to raid a vending machine, I never ever ever ever thought about slashing the kid in the desk next to me to pieces and having myself some Homo sapiens sapiens sashimi. What in a person’s life could happen to them that would make them go that crazy?

Ugh.

But even more disturbing than all of that is that nobody saw something like this coming from that guy. Or at least they haven’t come forward and publicly said so at this point. It makes you wonder about the people you put yourself around on a daily basis. The person you share an office with, your next door neighbors, the person you sat next to on the Metro this morning on your way to Chinatown, your plumber, your dentist, your friends…there’s no way to really know what’s going on in anybody’s head at any given point in time.

[looks around suspiciously…]

Yeah, I don’t mind one bit that I’m going to stay home for the duration of the evening.


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