Adding injury to insult

While we were away, one of the big news stories was the horrific crime that occurred in Canada when an obviously psychotic man stabbed his young seatmate on a Greyhound bus and then decapitated him. It was a terrible crime committed on a random stranger.

As I watched the news, one aspect of the crime (other than the whole stabbing and beheading thing) really bugged me.

Caton told the AP that the attacker didn't sit near the victim when he first got on the bus, about an hour before the attack.

"He sat in the front at first; everything was normal," Caton said. "We went to the next stop, and he got off and had a smoke with another young lady there. When he got on the bus again, he came to the back near where I was sitting. He put his bags in the overhead compartment. He didn't say a word to anybody. He seemed totally normal."

So the victim was taking this long bus ride and SCORE! got two seats all to himself. They make a rest stop and when they get back on the bus, this guy, who had been seated elsewhere, came back and took the empty seat.

As a frequent bus and train traveller, this would have really pissed me off. Here I have two seats to myself and this inconsiderate loon moves to take my empty seat. Had I been this poor unfortunate guy, I would have been inwardly fuming. Of course, the stabbing was even worse. But still.