This past weekend, I decided to stop by and surprise my family and friends back in my hometown. Throughout the weekend, I met up with my best friend who had to show me his “newest” Camaro (“newest” meaning it is newer than the one he already had), celebrated my parents’ anniversary, and spent time with my girlfriend. On the last day of my visit, my girlfriend and I were driving her Dad to the bank when he asked me how my bus ride home went. When I told him that it was nice but that I had been asleep for most of the ride, he proceeded to tell me a horrific story of a man being brutally attacked, stabbed, and eventually beheaded recently on a Greyhound bus in Canada. At first I didn’t believe him… until I found this.
The story goes that a 40 year old man on a Greyhound bus traveling through Canada walked up to a 22 year old man carnival worker named Tim McLean and sat down next to him. Seconds later, the attacker (Vince Weiguang Li) begins to stab the victim repeatedly, in the neck. Once all of the other passengers had jumped out of the bus, Li continued to decapitate the victim until he finally removed the head; afterwards, Li walked to the front of the bus, showing the other passengers what he had done, held up the head in his hands and dropping it on the floor.
Apparently, Li was under the impression that McLean was an incarnation of the devil. Passengers recall him exclaiming that he had,”Killed the devil!” Some of the passengers trapped Li in the bus until the police could arrive. Meanwhile, the bus driver went to the other end of the bus to disconnect it, fearing the attacker would drive off. While some members of the public blame the passengers for not trying to at least stall the attack, I don’t blame them. In a fight or flight situation like that, most people would have ran off of the bus, in fear that they would be the next victim. At that time, no one knew why Li was attacking, so anyone would have fled.
During my trip back down to Eugene, no matter how hard I tried not to, I kept envisioning the attack as if it was happening right next to me, just like this man describes.
