Current Events > On July 30, 2008, a man was cannibalized while riding a Greyhound bus.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean

The incident took place near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, during a trip from Edmonton to McLean's hometown of Winnipeg.

At 12:01 p.m. on July 30, 2008, Tim McLean (October 3, 1985 July 30, 2008), a carnival barker, was returning home to Manitoba after working at a fair in Alberta. He departed Edmonton on board Greyhound bus 1170 to Winnipeg, via the Yellowhead Highway through Saskatchewan. He sat at the rear, one row ahead of the toilet. At 6:55 p.m., the bus departed from a stop in Erickson, Manitoba, with a new passenger, Vince Weiguang Li. Li, described as a tall man in his 40s, with a shaved head and sunglasses, originally sat near the front of the bus, but moved to sit next to McLean following a scheduled rest stop. McLean "barely acknowledged" Li, then fell asleep against the window pane, headphones covering his ears.

According to witnesses, McLean was sleeping with his headphones on when the man sitting next to him suddenly produced a large knife and began stabbing McLean in the neck and chest. The bus driver pulled to the side of the road so that he and all the other passengers could exit the vehicle. The attacker then decapitated McLean and displayed his severed head to other passengers standing outside. The driver and two other men had attempted to rescue McLean but were chased away by Li, who slashed at them from behind the locked bus doors. Li then went back to McLean's body and began severing other parts and consuming some of his victim's flesh.

At 8:30 p.m., the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Portage la Prairie received a report of a stabbing on a Greyhound bus west of the city. They arrived to find the suspect still on board the bus, being prevented from escaping by another passenger, the bus driver, and a truck driver who had provided a crowbar and a hammer as weapons. The other passengers were huddled at the roadside, some of them crying and vomiting. As the suspect had earlier attempted to escape by driving the bus away, the driver had engaged the emergency immobilizer system, rendering the vehicle inoperable. Witnesses had observed the suspect stabbing and cutting McLean's body, and carrying McLean's severed head.

By 9:00 p.m., police were in a standoff with the suspect and had summoned special negotiators and a heavily armed tactical unit. The suspect alternately paced the length of the bus and defiled the corpse. Police officers then observed Li eating parts of the body. Meanwhile, the stranded passengers were transported from the scene to be interviewed at the Brandon RCMP detachment. RCMP officers reportedly heard Li say, "I have to stay on the bus forever."

On July 31, 2008, at 1:30 a.m., the suspect attempted to escape from the bus by breaking through a window. The RCMP arrested Li soon afterward. He was shot with a Taser twice, handcuffed and placed in the back of a police cruiser. Parts of the victim's body, placed in plastic bags, were retrieved from the bus, while his ear, nose and tongue were found in Li's pockets. The victim's eyes and a part of his heart were never recovered and are presumed to have been eaten by Li.

At 10:00 a.m., Greyhound representatives took the other passengers to a local store to replace their clothes, which remained on the bus. They arrived in Winnipeg at 3:30 p.m. that day, to be reunited with family members and friends.

The murderer was found not criminally responsible.
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I remember hearing about that
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Well my father was a gambler down in Georgia
He wound up on the wrong end of a gun
And I was born in the back seat of a greyhound bus
Rollin' down Highway 41
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Dhalsim posted...

The murderer was found not criminally responsible

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Dhalsim posted...

The murderer was found not criminally responsible.

Canada.

Always put your stuff on the seat next to you. It saves lives.
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Li's trial commenced on March 3, 2009, with Li pleading not criminally responsible. This means that he accepted that the offence occurred but he claimed that he was unable to form the necessary mental element or mens rea.[11] The psychiatrist said that Li performed the attack because God's voice told him McLean was a force of evil and was about to execute him. The presiding judge, John Scurfield, accepted the diagnosis, and ruled that Li was not criminally responsible for the killing.[1] Li was remanded to the Selkirk Mental Health Centre.
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DoctorPiranha3 posted...

Dhalsim posted...

The murderer was found not criminally responsible.

Canada.

You can plead insanity in the US as well.
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Bio1590 posted...

DoctorPiranha3 posted...

Dhalsim posted...

The murderer was found not criminally responsible.

Canada.

You can plead insanity in the US as well.

Seriously, I think this is a clear-cut case where the insanity defense would apply

Also thats crazy @Goats
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Walked through the mental hospital he was kept in a couple years back.

He's schizophrenic. This is a rare case where the dude literally was fucking insane.

I do that agree with the fact he was released as soon as he was, however.
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As if I needed more reasons not to ride Greyhound anymore
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On May 17, 2012, the National Post reported that Li had been granted temporary passes that would allow him out of the Selkirk Mental Health Centre for visits to the town of Selkirk, supervised by a nurse and peace officer.[30] In an interview, Li spoke for the first time, saying that he began hearing "the voice of God" in 2004 and that he wanted to save the people from an alien attack.[31]

On July 17, 2014, the Toronto Sun reported that one of the first officers on the scene, Corporal Ken Barker of the RCMP, had committed suicide.[33] The family stated in his obituary that he was suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder.[34]

Jfc
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I would have been on that bus had I not first stopped to shitpost on CE, missing the departure time.
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What the fuck
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Why the hell are we letting religion influence this decision? So because his God told him to, now suddenly he's innocent?

Metro2 posted...

Why the hell are we letting religion influence this decision? So because his God told him to, now suddenly he's innocent?

Where are you seeing innocent at?
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Returning_CEmen posted...

I would have been on that bus had I not first stopped to shitpost on CE, missing the departure time.

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A_Good_Boy posted...

Metro2 posted...

Why the hell are we letting religion influence this decision? So because his God told him to, now suddenly he's innocent?

Where are you seeing innocent at?

And I would like to add religion has nothing to do with it, in the later stages schizos often hear "the voice of God"
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Tupacrulez posted...

Walked through the mental hospital he was kept in a couple years back.

He's schizophrenic. This is a rare case where the dude literally was fucking insane.

I do that agree with the fact he was released as soon as he was, however.

Are you from Winnipeg >______>
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Can a schizophrenic atheist hear the voice of God?

They hear voices and cannot attribute them to themselves, so they assume it's god.
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Returning_CEmen posted...

I would have been on that bus had I not first stopped to shitpost on CE, missing the departure time.

<_<
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Metro2 posted...

Can a schizophrenic atheist hear the voice of God?

If they start hearing the voice of God I bet they stop being athiest real quick
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Does anyone ever hear the voice of Zeus, Ra, or Odin?

can I get the highlights? I aint reading all that
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LiqiudusSnake posted...

can I get the highlights? I aint reading all that

I remember from when it happened

A crazy man in Canada on a bus stabbed a guy who was listening to headphones. Then ate his body while locking the door to keep people out. I think people flee the bus when he attacked and then police were locked out from entering. They watched him eat

detained until his release on May 8, 2015

wtf
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Build that wall.
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I remember this. He worked at Walmart and a lot of people were fixated on that like it was relevant.
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Goats posted...

Scary part is I was supposed to be on that bus on my way home to see my parents that night. I missed the bus because of the rain sableye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI5IA8assfk" data-time="
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Goats posted...

Scary part is I was supposed to be on that bus on my way home to see my parents that night. I missed the bus because of the rain sableye.

Holy shit
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