Thread: Madness in Canada

Heard about it here on the news. To be honest it is shocking to me to have that on the same continent.
It isn't the sort of thing that my mind can wrap around, without a motive of some sort. Possibly were the man a fanatic middle eastern (or other) radical, but apparently even that isn't the case, so I really don't know.
Horrible stuff, hope his family is ok, or at least as ok as they can be.


John P.

The guy was obviously crazy and should be locked up in a mental institution for a long time (life if there are no viable treatment options), for both treatment and to give the victim's family a sense of closure. I see 3 causes for this incident:
1) The guy was obviously loco. If he didn't snap on the bus, chances are he would have snapped elsewhere.
2) Mentally ill people usually end up being poor and Greyhound's the cheapest long distance travel option.
3) Travelling by bus is stressful. Takin' Greyhound from Elko to Reno, I've seen one deranged passenger lock himself up in the toilet and another (probably "normal" just having anger management issues) dude trying to break the door down. That's why, while I was sickened by the incident, I wasn't surprised.

and did nobody on the bus do ANYTHING to try and help? i could maybe understand if there was only one other person on the bus but if there was maybe three other people they could have easily done something about it.
it is a terrible shame that there are people out there like that, and it is always horrible to hear about something like this happening no matter where it happens\

-dan-

Wow, that is truly sick.

I have lived three blocks away from where BTK killed that entire family, for like 17 years and you never realize the kind of brutality people are capable of until it's in your vicinity. Wichitans were shocked to find out that he had been a state employee and used that position to gain his victims' trust.

There's no acceptable solution to this kind of action except life imprisonment or death.

Hopefully his family will be given some sort of closure.

Originally Posted by Russel Baldridge

Wow, that is truly sick.

I have lived three blocks away from where BTK killed that entire family, for like 17 years and you never realize the kind of brutality people are capable of until it's in your vicinity. Wichitans were shocked to find out that he had been a state employee and used that position to gain his victims' trust.

There's no acceptable solution to this kind of action except life imprisonment or death.

Hopefully his family will be given some sort of closure.

Yup, I'd never really been worried about random violence until the DC sniper spree. I lived there at the time, and it was truly scary just to fill your gas tank or cross the parking lot to the go to the supermarket.

Jordan

Oh yeah, I have grandparents in the DC area that went through the same thing, I'd almost fogotten about those guys. Didn't the young one get a pretty lenient sentence?

Originally Posted by Russel Baldridge

Oh yeah, I have grandparents in the DC area that went through the same thing, I'd almost fogotten about those guys. Didn't the young one get a pretty lenient sentence?

I think he got life without parole - he was a minor and somewhat "under the influence" of the older guy.

Jordan