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Text messages may reveal motive for bus murder
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* ]8 Z+ `2 y' V, c5 ^1 N# YWe may have the first hint of a motive for the shocking murder on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last week.
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, |9 Z: {( M3 Q7 J! a' u$ F9 }3 k* P0 ^) c$ MInfomation obtained by iNews 880 and the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper suggests an incident involving a woman brought victim Tim McLean and accused killer Vince Li together.

The information given to us said at the stopover in Brandon, an Asian Guy had been hitting on a girl that Tim knew on the bus and that Tim told him to "lay off".
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) p5 ~, Y1 G+ jThe Winnipeg Free Press suggests Vince Li, spent nearly an hour chatting up the victim's female co-worker during their ride through western Manitoba.

- N! t6 x, G& M9 c; r3 x  DThe pair seemed friendly but as the bus resumed its ill-fated journey towards Winnipeg, Li suddenly moved to the back of the bus and sat down beside McLean, who was listening to his headphones and apparently asleep.
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( g5 x5 h2 g6 G1 X$ g- E$ y; v: JAnswers:

4 ?& y  H3 N9 uChat up -- Talk flirtatiously to, as in Leave it to Charlie to chat up the girls. This usage is mostly but not entirely British. [Late 1800s]

Hit on -- Make sexual advances to someone, especially unwanted ones, as in You can't go into that bar without being hit on. [Slang; mid-1900s]

8 O# Y* ~$ r9 C$ cLay off –- 1. Stop doing something, quit, as in Lay off that noise for a minute, so the baby can get to sleep, or She resolved to lay off smoking. [Early 1900s] ;
          2. Stop bothering or annoying someone, as in Lay off or I'll tell the teacher. [Slang; c. 1900]

7 X) G' ~5 {7 N# {) K7 y2 b[ 本帖最后由 卜兆吉尚活 于 2008-8-5 15:11 编辑 ]

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irish

就是说有动机了？可以定一级谋杀。

織紗千影

Thanks for sharing