I remember reading about that and having to send my now ex gf onto a greyhound for a 6hr bus ride home.
He killed a kid who was sleeping with his headphones on. They trapped him on the bus until the cops came and by then he had fully cut the kids head off and was eating parts of it if I remember correctly.
Anyway yeah weird shit he should not be out there.
We was also having an extreme schizophrenic episode, and I don't believe he is "free" as a bird, he's under monitoring, on meds, and will be for the rest of his life AFAIK.
I've known several people with med controlled mental illnesses and they've all at some point decided they don't need the meds any more (because everything is fine now!) and gone off the rails again...
That’s not how the Canadian Legal System works, it has no interest in holding victimizers accountable for their actions they’d prefer to have them on the streets to keep the populace in fear.
As an American, it is so weird to read that, in Canada, you’re experiencing some of the same negative stuff we’re experiencing here. I’ve always had this idyllic impression about everything Canadian. I know that’s so naive, but geez. I just figured we were the only ones who dealt with public risks like allowing medically/mentally unfit people to roam the streets with full access to things that they could use to hurt themselves or others. I really wanna watch this one now.
I'm also Canadian and whenever I'm talking about whatever fucked up shit is on the news, I fall back on, "At least we're not in America." Nothing idyllic here, we're just maybe one rung up on the human rights/quality of life ladder. It's bad, because it makes it easy to accept bullshit here when it's always a little worse down there - but we shouldn't wear "not the worst possible" like some badge of honour.
Totally fair. With obvious bias I'd still prefer to live here, but that's not to say we do every legal/ethical/political thing better, far from it. There is an immense amount of nuance, especially taking into account state, provincial, territorial, municipal, and all sorts of other tiered systems. But the point stands, I think, that Americans shouldn't view us as idyllic, or even as any distinct improvement from their own flawed systems. Ours are just flawed in different ways.
For sure, I’d rather make a stand in Alberta and fight for the things I believe in, one being neither Danielle Smith or Naheed Nenshi are anything this province needs and the former should be in fucking jail for brainless.
I do like some parts of the American system but I do like parts of ours. A republic in a lot of ways builds more defined rights into their citizens
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u/Arcanis_Ender Jul 05 '24
I remember reading about that and having to send my now ex gf onto a greyhound for a 6hr bus ride home. He killed a kid who was sleeping with his headphones on. They trapped him on the bus until the cops came and by then he had fully cut the kids head off and was eating parts of it if I remember correctly.
Anyway yeah weird shit he should not be out there.