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vancouver stabbing on train last night - i passed that car!!!

haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
edited June 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I was on my way out to downtown last night when we heard an announcement that Nanaimo station was closed and to use alternate routes... it came on just after we had passed the station. I heard it was a police incident but only checked it out right now... looking at the time it happened I must have been on the opposite train just passing that one... i found it kinda crazy. Only kinda though. :o

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/story.html?id=7c0fff9b-7179-479f-9237-8ddf5c9f898b

SkyTrain stabbing
The Province
Published: Tuesday, June 17, 2008

A woman who may have been acting in self-defence was arrested last night after a stabbing on a SkyTrain car in east Vancouver.

She was picked up by Vancouver police after fleeing through Nanaimo Station from a train where a man had received superficial wounds at about 6:30 p.m., said TransLink spokesman Drew Snider.

He said another man who was not the victim "was arrested by Transit Police on suspicion of assault in connection with the incidents leading up to the stabbing."

Passengers used the car's security alarm and intercom to call for help.
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  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    :eek: :eek: :eek:

    **Note to self: Stay off the Sky Train in Vancouver!**

    Glad you're ok doin. :)
    NOPE!!!

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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    Jeanie wrote:
    :eek: :eek:

    **Note to self: Stay off the Sky Train in Vancouver!**

    Glad you're ok doin. :)
    yeah, stay off especially when the downtown sector is having electrical problems... what a shit show this morning :p

    haha and thanks, luckily i wasn't going east bound! :)
    that'd suck though, i can just picture me getting stabbed and screaming... NOOO BUT I HAVNT MADE IT TO MSG YET!!
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  • rebornFixerrebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Be careful. There are some real nutters out in this city at night.
  • JeanieJeanie Posts: 9,446
    doin'the-evolution wrote:
    yeah, stay off especially when the downtown sector is having electrical problems... what a shit show this morning

    haha and thanks, luckily i wasn't going east bound!
    that'd suck though, i can just picture me getting stabbed and screaming... NOOO BUT I HAVNT MADE IT TO MSG YET!!

    HA! :D Too funny! That's probably what I'd be screaming too if I had tix to MSG! Not "Help POLICE!" :D

    I'm not great with public transport anyway, I must confess. I rarely, if ever, get on it here without being with someone else and I know I should utilize it more, but there's some nut jobs out there and they seem to congregate on public transport and knowing my luck I'd be exactly the kind of person they'd find. I've discovered recently I don't just have an arsehole magnet but a nutter magnet as well! :p:D

    I'm glad you're ok and I'm really glad you posted this so I know to be wary of the trains there instead of hopping on all excited and tourist like and winding up on the front page of the paper! :eek:
    NOPE!!!

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  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    doin'the-evolution wrote:
    yeah, stay off especially when the downtown sector is having electrical problems... what a shit show this morning :p

    haha and thanks, luckily i wasn't going east bound! :)
    that'd suck though, i can just picture me getting stabbed and screaming... NOOO BUT I HAVNT MADE IT TO MSG YET!!

    take care of yofurself girl!
    we need to rock out in the aisles to DTE before you get stabbed :eek: :D
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  • canuck_rockercanuck_rocker Posts: 108
    Freaky! Didn't somebody have a heart attack and get run over by the skytrain earlier this week?? I'm going on the train tomorrow, hopefully there's no 3rd time :s
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  • HinnyHinny Posts: 1,610
    That'll teach you to take a break from the touring in the middle of a stretch of shows.
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  • smarcheesmarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    Vancouver is really, really becoming reknown for crime, which I find shitty
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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    canuck_rocker wrote:
    Freaky! Didn't somebody have a heart attack and get run over by the skytrain earlier this week?? I'm going on the train tomorrow, hopefully there's no 3rd time :s
    seriously?
    never heard about that...

    and yes vancouver is getting bad. even out in the valley we're seeing more and more homeless people and drug addicts.
    welcome to vancouver, 2010! :p
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  • canuck_rockercanuck_rocker Posts: 108
    doin'the-evolution wrote:
    seriously?
    never heard about that...

    and yes vancouver is getting bad. even out in the valley we're seeing more and more homeless people and drug addicts.
    welcome to vancouver, 2010! :p

    I heard about that a couple of days ago, apparently it happened at Metrotown and the surrounding 2 stations were closed. I can't help but wonder how the Translink expansion is going to affect the rest of the valley! Isn't it supposed to continue along Fraser Hwy and out to Langley in the next 15 years?
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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    canuck_rocker wrote:
    I heard about that a couple of days ago, apparently it happened at Metrotown and the surrounding 2 stations were closed. I can't help but wonder how the Translink expansion is going to affect the rest of the valley! Isn't it supposed to continue along Fraser Hwy and out to Langley in the next 15 years?
    i think i heard it was coming out to langley as well.
    which is cool i guess so Langleyans dont have to catch buses to surrey central (we all know how surrey central is)... hopefuly by 2015 i wont still be living in langley though!
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