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Body found in plastic barrel east of Winnipeg

The Canadian Press

Latest comment posted at 4:04 PM EST 24/07/08

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  1. Glenn F from Canada writes: Sort of far from the Falls, isn't it?
  2. Wandering Willy from Kelowna, Canada writes: Just one question.......was he missing any feet?
  3. scott thomas from Canada writes: It's dispiriting to read three lame men make three lame jokes about the murder of a human being.
  4. gerhard beck from Canada writes: Scott thomas, I agree, lamebrains can try to be funny over somebodies death.
  5. R. M. from Regina, Canada writes: The first three posts are shameful; I simply checked to see if the tone of similar posts relating to the B.C. story were continuing.....sadly they are....note the forum is SEMI-MODERATED.....
  6. Derek Holtom from Swan River, Canada writes: David Guy from Canada writes: Hmm. So Winnipeg Police have Tasered someone else now too. Uh-huh.

    1. you are classless.
    2. That particular investigation has yet to really get started. Are you judge and jury?
    3. The number of murders in this province is alarming.
    4. The number of incidents with knives - especially in this province - is also alarming.
  7. Alistair McLaughlin from Canada writes: Sounds like gang related. Then again, we don't really know.
  8. Chester Mere from near calgary, Canada writes: The first 3 submissions are the price a society must pay for free speech. Real high quality citizens.
  9. Boris Dostoevsky from Russian Federation writes: death comes to us all kids, and that's it. And sure it's a scary bummer. And yes it's hard and devastating when some one close kicks it especially if its not of natural causes. But still we should still be able have a laugh about it. (And to be able to reminisce about someone who isn't around, that's nice too; bittersweet of course.) But a guy found in a barrel is not likely to have had a family who reads the globe and mail.
  10. Iain's Opinion from Canada writes: Oh you holier than thou moralists. Is every life truely sacred? If you answer yes, then consider that all the animals on land, creatures in the sea, plants, microbes, pathogens and even pesky mosquitoes are god's creation as well. All are equally sacred. All stem from the same source. So stop killing and devouring things. Mind you, every day you survive you are merely delaying the inevitable.
  11. Tristis Ward from Fredericton, Canada writes: Chester Mere from near calgary, Canada writes: 'The first 3 submissions are the price a society must pay for free speech. Real high quality citizens.'

    First: no it's not. It happens to be an issue with me when people misconstrue what freedom of speech is all about. It's about citizenship and not getting arrested for saying what needs to be said, not about lame jokes, puns, flaming posts or other such things.

    Second: I can only see two posts, and must assume the third is what was quoted. Seriously, they're not so bad. I smiled at the one about feet.

    Of course every life (human and otherwise) is important, and crime is a serious problem, but it isn't like the article went into details on the victim's life and the posters made fun of it. At this point it is a story of a body in a barrel. Take a breath.
  12. Jake Smith from Saskatoon, Canada writes: If you're trying to get rid of a body, preserving it in a plastic barrel and dumping it on a riverbank is not the way you want to go. Instead I suggest you utilize alkeline hydrolysis using lye, 300-degree heat and 60 pounds of pressure per square inch to destroy the bodies in a 55 gallon meal drum that essentially serves as a pressure cooker. This is a much more environmentally friendly approach... and it i sure to get rid of the evidence - er body - which it turns into goo. As in giggity giggity goo!
  13. Harbinger from Out West from Canada writes: Barrel equivalent to a cheap casket from a very low budget and affordable funeral home? Could be.
  14. C P from Canada writes: this 'semi moderated' comment thread is getting way off base ... very disrespectful to family/friends of persons who are missing or were victims of crime.
  15. The Phantom from Canada writes:
    I agree these tasteless jokes are really scraping the bottom of the barrel. After all this is no barrel of laughs.
  16. Mark Horner from United States writes: An audio interview with George Knight (one of the men who found the body in the barrel) can be heard at Beyond90Seconds.com.
  17. E Stuhl from NYC, United States writes: I hope that if I'm ever murdered, my corpse won't be found wearing "brown jeans". I'd much rather die in my tux, or at least a decent suit. Not to be disrespectful (just indifferent), but that was teh primary thought that occured to me while reading the article.
  18. The Phantom from Canada writes:

    I think it was a brown belt, and jeans.... not brown jeans.

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