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Text messages may reveal motive for bus murder
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We may have the first hint of a motive for the shocking murder on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last week.

% j* U: T5 L% W. B1 S$ `5 HInfomation 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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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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) j- y0 I8 O8 [% H" `, HThe Winnipeg Free Press suggests Vince Li, spent nearly an hour chatting up the victim's female co-worker during their ride through western Manitoba.

/ \0 D0 w, }  C  f8 V4 t  L; ~- Y( ]The 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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. e1 H5 i) H" u" d# x; WAnswers:
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( |3 X* q9 V0 V: P& Z6 g! e& [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]

! r$ j4 a( X$ X8 H- ]5 f+ O- gHit 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]

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] ;
: |  }9 g7 V2 a2 B$ `: Y# U# ?          2. Stop bothering or annoying someone, as in Lay off or I'll tell the teacher. [Slang; c. 1900]

! V8 W) G( R; M7 X[ 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