Greyhound scraps ads after Canada bus beheading

TORONTO - Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the
relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused
of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler.

The ad's tag line was "There's a reason you've never heard of 'bus rage.'"

Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said Wednesday a billboard and
some tunnel posters near a bus terminal in Toronto are still up and
would be removed later in the day.

"Greyhound knows how important it is to get these removed and we are
doing everything possible," Wambaugh said. "This is something that we
immediately asked to be done last week, realizing that these could be
offensive."

Vince Weiguang Li, who immigrated to Canada
from China in 2004, is charged with second-degree murder in the death
of 22-year-old carnival worker Tim McLean. He has yet to enter a plea.

Thirty-seven passengers were aboard the Greyhound from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, as it traveled at night along a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway about 12 miles from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. Witnesses said Li attacked McLean unprovoked, stabbing him dozens of times.

As horrified passengers fled the bus, Li severed McLean's head,
displaying it to some of the passengers outside the bus, witnesses said.

A police officer at the scene reported seeing the attacker hacking
off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police
report.

Wambaugh said the ads only appeared in Canada and that some in Ontario and western Canada
have already been removed. About 20,000 inserts of the Greyhound ads
were scheduled to be put into an Alberta Summer Games handbook but they
stopped the presses.