"He even went as far as to deny someone looking to board with an expired bus pass," police said in the news release.

Holy shit that is funny.

Boomers are always saying things like "Just show up and start working, they'll hire you". This madlad actually did it!

Get this man a commercial license and hire him!

At first, passengers didn't realize the man wasn't a bus driver, McKenna said. But when he started making some wrong turns, they started asking him questions and one gave him directions to return to the scheduled route.

He even went as far as to deny someone looking to board with an expired bus pass," police said in the news release.

The absolute legendary irony of the man stealing a bus but denying a rider with an expired pass. “Sorry bud, I dont make the rules” Im dead

"you kept making the stops?!"
"YOU'RE BATMAN!"

Better work than some bus drivers I’ve encountered!

HSR should give this guy bus driver training!

"Wait you kept making all the stops?!!"

"Well they kept ringin the bell!"

"of no fixed address" is the most asinine way of saying homeless I've ever heard.

I really hope that doesn't catch on like "unalive"

Best interview candidate ever

What's the definition of theft in Canada? Here it requires intent to keep the object, which I don't think is given in case of a spontaneous joy ride where the person returned the bus.

Canadian police seem pretty level-headed here.

"There was not a ding on the bus. He did a great job," said McKenna said. "It's comical but at the same time it's serious. We're thankful nobody was hurt."

"We didn't want to spook him," he said. "We didn't want to make this a tragedy."

Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.

"He even went as far as to deny someone looking to board with an expired bus pass," police said in the news release.

Dude was taking this gig seriously lol

Maybe they should offer this man a job

He also refused people with expired bus passes. Police get a lot of criticism, but it seems they handled this one about as well as could be expected.

One half this: https://youtu.be/cmlCAhrAWYw

One half this: https://youtu.be/p2PL5u3RA18 😄