{"id":293,"date":"2008-07-31T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T23:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-09-23T21:10:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T05:10:34","slug":"bravely-taking-to-their-feet-they-beat-a-very-brave-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"<em>Bravely<\/em> Taking to Their Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7535840.stm\"><q>Man decapitated on Canadian bus<\/q> from the <abbr title=\"British Broadcasting Corporation\">BBC<\/abbr><\/a> <blockquote syle=\"font-size: smaller ;\"><q>All of a sudden, we all heard this scream, this bloodcurdling scream<\/q>, passenger Garnet Caton told CBC television.<br \/><br \/><q>The attacker was standing up right over the top of the guy with a large hunting knife &mdash; a survival, Rambo knife &mdash; holding the guy and continually stabbing him&#8230; in the chest area<\/q>, Mr Caton added.<br \/><br \/>The attack continued as passengers fled the bus and waited for police on a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.<br \/><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">[&#8230;]<\/span><br \/><br \/>Sgt Colwell said the <q>brave<\/q> behaviour of the passengers and driver probably prevented anyone else from being hurt.<\/blockquote><\/div> <p>I'm not sure just where Sergeant Colwell locates the <em>bravery<\/em> here.  I <em>am<\/em>, unfortunately, sure that there will be mutterings about how, really, <em>America<\/em> is ultimately responsible for this attack.<\/p> <span style=\"font-weight: bolder ; font-variant: small-caps ;\">Addendum:<\/span><div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20080731\/Manitoba_bus_080731\/20080731\"><q>Police don't know what prompted vicious bus attack<\/q> from <abbr title=\"Canadian Television\">CTV<\/abbr><\/a> <blockquote syle=\"font-size: smaller ;\"><q>It's not something that happens regularly on a bus<\/q>, said Colwell. <q>You're sitting there enjoying your trip and then all of a sudden somebody gets stabbed. I imagine it would be pretty traumatic &#8230; the way they acted was extraordinary.<\/q><br \/><br \/><q>They were very brave. They reacted swiftly, calmly in exiting the bus and as a result nobody else was injured.<\/q><\/blockquote><\/div> <p><q>They beat a very <em>brave<\/em> retreat.<\/q><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man decapitated on Canadian bus from the BBC All of a sudden, we all heard this scream, this bloodcurdling scream, passenger Garnet Caton told CBC television.The attacker was standing up right over the top of the guy with a large hunting knife &mdash; a survival, Rambo knife &mdash; holding the guy and continually stabbing him&#8230; [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,104,4],"tags":[319,320,321,173,279],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-news","category-public","tag-bravery","tag-canada","tag-knives","tag-weapons","tag-weapons-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}