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Text messages may reveal motive for bus murder
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: |( j# A2 d+ D8 T. yWe may have the first hint of a motive for the shocking murder on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last week.

$ L/ ~& m3 [6 q% |  p3 ]) m  ?3 V2 rInfomation 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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, ?  d- m' ~6 a4 b8 P! h) @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".

6 [/ e4 k7 J( u/ UThe 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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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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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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  |# G2 M- m9 U* H6 L' D0 D. Z- ~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]

, @6 w8 ?  l+ k) m3 T6 r* TLay 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]

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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