PUTTING THE HOUND IN GREYHOUND

Cuz if you don't want me around, see, I go simple, I go easy, I go Greyhound

The picture above is of Greyhound's current advertising campaign: "There's A Reason You've Never Heard of 'Bus Rage.'"

The picture below is of Vince Weiguang Li, the Greyhound passenger who recently stabbed, beheaded, defiled, and then ate the flesh of the guy who was sitting next to him on the bus.

Sucks for Greyhound. Sucks for the victim and his family. Sucks for all the passengers who witnessed this horrifying act of cannibalism and murder.

But it also sucks for everyone else who would like to travel.

Thanks to rocketing gas prices, ridiculous airline fees ($7 for a pillow and blanket?), Amtrak's delays and derailments, the prohibitively expensive cost of Segways, and now bus rage, that only leaves you with the option of your bicycle that you left chained to the ...

... uhh, never mind.

Staycation, it is.

The only upshot of Mr. Li's derangement is that it will be easier for us Asian guys on Greyhound to ensure the seat next to us remains empty.

--Junichi