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Text messages may reveal motive for bus murder
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+ b# \- }# h  t& wWe may have the first hint of a motive for the shocking murder on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last week.

! b% O# l, M/ U2 gInfomation 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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8 I3 s1 V# N; Q' w, ~$ O3 H# 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.
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4 g' ~% H! q  L( m0 Z& yThe 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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: @8 ^) E# ^+ n# d* [5 M  F/ I3 qAnswers:
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5 Y/ j4 H. S& f5 j! e2 TChat 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]
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' \* {8 p: O% {/ h# mHit 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]
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Lay 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] ;
+ c; ~" k" O* d' t" A0 `# f1 k) g5 Y( @          2. Stop bothering or annoying someone, as in Lay off or I'll tell the teacher. [Slang; c. 1900]
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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