Canada -- coincidentally (or, perhaps not so coincidentally...) Scanner Verena's homeland -- is a scary place today.
MSNBC reports that a sleeping passenger aboard a Greyhound was killed and then decapitated by his seatmate as the bus oh-so-scenically "rolled across the Canadian prairie." The eyewitness description is even creepier:
"The attacker was standing up right over top of the guy with a large
hunting knife — a survival, Rambo knife — holding the guy and
continually stabbing him, stabbing him, stabbing him in the chest
area," Caton [who was sitting in front of the victim] said.
"[Then] he calmly walks up to the front (of the bus) with the head in his hand
and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in
front of us," Caton said.
After that, the passengers scrambled off the bus and locked the doors - leaving the homicidal maniac locked inside. According to MSNBC, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) reports that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police took the killer into custody, but declined to provide any other details, including whether the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were actually riding horses.
In other scary Canada news, a mountain fell on the Sea-To-Sky highway connecting Whistler, home of the 2010 Winter Olympics, with Vancouver. The National Post reports that the jumble of rocks, made up of "boulders the size of small houses" has cut the ski resort off from the rest of the province. In appropriate beaurocratic fashion, the "provincial Transportation Minister said the highway will likely be closed for the next five days."
Scanner Verena's mother reports (in typical dramatic fashion) that all the gas stations in Whistler are out of gas - leaving those who would drive the back route (a romantic 10-hour excursion) out of, well, gas. She also reports that "food is running out!" and that she and her friends have chartered a small plane to escape. (For serious. Also: Canada is cheap.) There will undoubtedly be many more scintillating updates to come.
[via MSNBC, National Post]
