Jeff wrote:Bus rider recalls another gruesome incident
Matthew Pearson, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Saturday, August 02, 2008
It's no wonder Karina Hébert rents a car now whenever she travels to Montreal.
The Ottawa public servant was a frequent Greyhound rider until a gruesome incident in late January changed all that.
Her story came to light yesterday in the aftermath of the stabbing and decapitation of 22-year-old Tim McLean.
Ms. Hébert says she was travelling through a snowstorm on a mid-afternoon Greyhound bus from Montreal to Ottawa on Jan. 22 when a man who had locked himself in the washroom began using a razor blade to peel off his own scalp.
Ms. Hébert said she had noticed the scruffy man in the bus station, fidgeting and talking to himself. When she boarded the bus, she saw him sitting in the back row, adjacent to the washroom.
The man later barricaded himself in the washroom for more than an hour, forcing the driver to pull off Highway 417 onto Highway 138, east of Casselman.
Ms. Hébert said the driver tried to talk the man into coming out of the washroom, but at first the man refused.
That's when Ms. Hébert said something shocking happened.
"The guy opened the door and his face was completely, completely covered in blood. It was kind of like a horror movie. The only thing that stood out was the whites of his eyes," she said.
The man was holding his still-attached scalp above his head, which she later learned from police he had begun cutting away at the back of his head below the crown.
When the bus driver told the man he was going to call for help, Ms. Hébert said the man re-entered the washroom and locked the door.
The driver then told the 17 remaining passengers to get off the bus.
When Ontario Provincial Police officers arrived, Ms. Hébert said several boarded the bus and dismantled the door after the man refused to come out.
The man was also Tasered.
Horrified passengers stood by as police dragged him out of the bus. He was covered in blood and his pants were around his ankles, Ms. Hébert said.
A police officer later told Ms. Hébert that by the time officers got the man out of the washroom, he had cut all the way around his scalp and down to the bridge of his nose or immediately below.
Still, she said the man did not make a sound and remained conscious.
The bus was towed away and, after a three-hour delay, passengers were back on the road.
When they arrived in Ottawa, Ms. Hébert said Greyhound refunded riders the equivalent of a one-way, Montreal-to-Ottawa fare.
Ms. Hébert said she didn't complain to the bus company at the time, out of respect for the man and his family.
But after reading the company's statements this week following the killing near Brandon, Man., she decided to speak out.
"They say it's a rare occasion, well, it's not. Things like that obviously happen more often than we like to think."
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Holy *insert expletives aplenty*
That's just too much...a guy pretty much rips off his face on another greyhound in front of one of the witnesses of the new incident?
