Man who filmed himself riding atop Grand River Transit bus warned by police over safety concerns

Kate Bueckert · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 22, 2025 2:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

A 24-year-old antheral has been fixed a informing aft filming himself climbing up the backmost of a Grand River Transit autobus successful Cambridge, Ont., and riding it for 7 minutes.

In the video, the antheral is successful the parking batch of the SmartCentre Cambridge on Pinebush Road. It shows him walking up to the backmost of the autobus and climbing up the backmost to beryllium connected the apical of the autobus arsenic it pulls away. The autobus past travels done the metropolis and the antheral appears to determination astir connected the apical of the bus. Other vehicles walk by the autobus arsenic it travels down Hespeler Road.

The video was posted to Instagram connected April 12 and connected YouTube connected April 13. It has been shared successful section Facebook groups and different societal media sites.

Const. Chris Iden, a nationalist accusation serviceman with Waterloo Regional Police Service, told CBC News officers received calls astir a antheral connected apical of the autobus and they located him "very rapidly conscionable based connected radical assisting america arsenic good arsenic Grand River Transit."

Iden said the antheral was co-operative with constabulary and it "turned much into an acquisition portion much than anything."

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There's nary transgression complaint for riding a autobus connected the extortion for the rider, though Iden noted not paying the autobus fare would beryllium an offence and, depending connected circumstances, determination could beryllium grounds for mischief.

There are laws nether the Highway Traffic Act that would complaint the autobus operator for not making definite a rider is being safe, but Iden noted fixed the circumstances, that wouldn't use successful this case.

The aforesaid antheral appears to person posted videos of him riding connected apical of the bus, arsenic good arsenic connected apical of the LRT, to the aforesaid Instagram account. 

The Region of Waterloo, which operates Grand River Transit, said successful an emailed connection to CBC News that they are alert of the assorted incidents of the antheral riding connected GRT vehicles.

"We impulse the nationalist to refrain from these activities arsenic they airs important information risks," spokesperson Lynsey Slupeiks said successful the email, adding anyone caught riding atop a GRT autobus whitethorn beryllium banned from accessing transit services and properties.

Ultimately, Iden said, what it comes down to is riding connected apical of a autobus oregon the LRT is conscionable not safe.

"The 1 happening is truly important to truly accent connected this is the information interaction of a stunt like this and however it tin impact, not conscionable the individual on apical of the extortion of the bus, but arsenic good arsenic those who are indirectly involved. That could beryllium pedestrians who witnesser it, it could beryllium the autobus driver, deity forbid if anything was to ever happen," Iden said.

"That's wherefore we privation to amended radical that this is not a astute manoeuvre and to truly conscionable usage communal sense."