Obese Get 2 Airline Seats - By Law!

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

In Canada, the Supreme Court has ruled that obese people can let it all hang out, at least two seats worth, for the price of one. (Source)

The Canadian Transportation Agency ruled that one person one fare should be the standard.

Air Canada, thought maybe one person one seat should be the standard, but the Canadian Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal letting the CTA ruling stand.

Tags: airplane, Canada, flights, obese, Travel
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Psycho Knifes, Kills, Beheads on Greyhound Bus

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

A young man is fatally stabbed, and reportedly beheaded, on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba, Canada. The mounties have taken a 40 year old man, believed to be from Manitoba, into custody in the slaying of a young man described to be in his teens to early 20s, on the bus.

Garnet Caton, who was sitting in the seat in front of the victim, said he saw the attacker stab his seatmate, a young man sleeping with his headphones on.

Caton said he heard a “blood-curdling scream” and turned around to see the attacker holding a large “Rambo” hunting knife above the victim, “continually stabbing him in the chest area.”

“He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times,” said Caton.

“Like, just everywhere, arms, legs, neck, chest, guts, wherever he could swing it, he got it,” said Olmstead.

As panicked passengers fled the bus, “the attacker was over top of the victim … continually cutting him. I think the victim was gone at that point,” Caton said. - Source

But, if it’s possible it get’s more gruesome from here, when the assailant allegedly beheads the victim. Here’s Caton’s recounting of the incident to the CBC.

Caton, the driver and a trucker who had stopped at the scene later boarded the vehicle to see if the victim was still alive.

“When we came back on the bus, it was visible at the end of the bus he was cutting the guy’s head off and pretty much gutting him up,” said Caton.

The attacker ran at them, Caton said, and they ran out of the bus, holding the door shut as he tried to slash at the trio.

When the attacker tried to drive the bus away, the driver disabled the vehicle, Caton said.

“While we were watching the door, he calmly walks up to the front with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stares at us and drops the head right in front of us,” said Caton. CBC

The RCMP have not confirmed the beheading, according to the CBC. Caton’s account however says the assailant “taunted” the Mounties with the head of the victim during the several hour standoff he had with police, before being subdued while trying to escape via a bus window.

Tags: Bus, Canada, Crime, Knife, Murder
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