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Originally Posted by 4X4
Again. Ridiculous. What were they supposed to do? What would you have done? Stormed down the aisle of a bus and attacked/disarmed a big guy with a big knife with your bare hands (or with a purse or a book like some of the f'n morons in the comments in the cnn article suggested)?
Everyone likes a good Hollywood ending where there happens to be a Chuck Norris sitting on the bus ready to disarm a nutcase with a butcher knife, but this is reality.
I might give your line of thinking a shred of validation if this took place in a parking lot or in any kind of venue where more than one person could mount the attack simultaneously, but we're talking about a bus. Every Greyhound bus I've been on has an aisle down the middle. An aisle that only accommodates single file attacking. What good would it be for people to run toward a psychopath with a knife with no space to maneuver side to side? It is almost certain that the person would be seriously wounded if not critically or mortally, and also highly likely to provoke the nutcase to attack more people.
Ask yourself this: if you had the knife and the thirst for blood, how many people do you think you'd slice up before a hero finally took you down? Chances are that you'd have a good three or four bodies stacked up in the aisle before someone got a lucky grip on your wrist and twisted the knife out of your hand.
And as far as the idiot that compared this to the heros that disarmed the boxcutter-wielders on United 93, let me remind that moron that if a plane goes down, everyone dies. Not just half or just a couple of people. A bus gets pulled over to the side of the road and you can save a good portion of the passengers.
They sound pretty heroic to me. They saved all but one and also managed to keep the killer detained until police arrived. In my not so humble opinion, anyone that disagrees with whit I just said is completely delusional. If any of you would-be heros think you have the skill to disarm the guy in question, you probably think that because you have some kind of Marine training or something, which, as you know, few people have. The rest of us gotta rely on common sense.
Oh yeah, and FTR, United 93 crashed anyway.
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Perfect post. In my opinion, the other passengers reacted perfectly. From what I understand a couple of them even did go back on the bus and attempt to stop the maniac, but like you said, what chance do you have in a small aisle against a guy with a large knife?!? Better just to get back off. It's impressive enough as is that they had the sense in all that chaos to hold him on the bus until the cops showed up.