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Text messages may reveal motive for bus murder
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7 E: l$ y9 D4 ?- ^: J8 T. ^We may have the first hint of a motive for the shocking murder on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last week.
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+ k% w; J3 u; ~% _  z7 J! {& `, bInfomation 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.
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" F4 N7 r  c6 dThe 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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# h& `6 C0 l8 P/ T7 T2 eThe 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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  F& p( b- C, C  P5 ]7 w+ P8 EThe 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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Chat 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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$ ]- n. ?  o3 u4 C% Q4 z' ]. nHit 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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2 e2 ]  J; _/ w: `/ B1 PLay 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] ;
' M$ |, _7 A" b( \0 r          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