The worst kind of crazy.

A man on a Greyhound bus travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg stabbed and then decapitated the passenger sitting next to him. According to witnesses the 22 year-old victim had done nothing to provoke the crazy guy and was asleep with his headphones on at the time of the attack.

The bus was about 10 km outside of Portage La Prairie at the time. As the assailant waved the man's severed head around, the bus was evacuated (no kidding) and the driver, along with a passing trucker, locked the man inside the bus threatening him with crowbars and a hammer if he tried to leave before RCMP arrived. Considering the scene he'd just witnessed, the bus driver was pretty calm and disabled the bus engine even as the guy was trying to drive it away.

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day (oh, that's where he's been!) commented on the killing, saying "The horrific nature of it is probably one of a kind in Canadian history."

Photo: RCMP try talking to the assailant (sitting in the driver's seat)