Couple spotted in 'sex act' on TTC's King St. streetcar
By Don Peat, City Hall Bureau Chief
First posted: Thursday, November 20, 2014 07:35 PM EST | Updated: Thursday, November 20, 2014 07:44 PM EST
TORONTO - It must have been a streetcar named Desire.
A couple took riding the rocket to a new level just before 5:30 p.m. Thursday on board a westbound King St. streetcar.
TTC spokesman Brad Ross confirmed another streetcar rider reported the couple “who were engaged in some activity of a sexual nature” to the operator during evening rush hour.
“It was called in (around Yonge and King),” Ross told the Toronto Sun. “A supervisor met the streetcar at University Ave., the streetcar was heading westbound, and the couple had left ... I don’t know what kind of sex act it was.
“No arrests were made, they’d gotten off the car.”
The X-rated incident on the packed streetcar caused approximately a 20-minute delay along the city’s busiest streetcar route.
Although he didn’t see the dirty deed, TTC rider Adam Owen was on the streetcar when the operator hit the brakes around University Ave.
“The operator went over the intercom ... he said, ‘Indecent exposure is never OK. I’m stopping the streetcar right now. To the person who has done this indecent exposure, you need to leave the streetcar immediately or I’ll call the police,’” Owen said.
The streetcar continued to sit in traffic.
“I wanted to have a better view of everything so I got off the streetcar,” Owen said. “After a while the police came and went around the streetcar and talked to the operator.
“There were about three or four streetcars backed up ... the car traffic was also backed up because nobody wanted to go past the open (streetcar) doors.”
Owen, a regular on the King streetcar, said he’s “never seen anything like that before.”
He said he heard one of the police officers tell the crowd, “I love Toronto!” as they left the scene.
“There was really nothing to it,” Staff Sgt. Paul Bois said. “Just some intoxicated adults acting intoxicated.”
No further investigation was expected.
Robin Lobb was on the streetcar stuck behind the streetcar carrying the randy riders.
He didn’t get on the trolley containing the troublemakers at King and Jarvis Sts. because it was packed too full. Lobb’s streetcar ended up stopping near York St. when the first car hit the brakes.
“The streetcar driver (was) not telling us at all why is there this long, long delay,” Lobb said. “Finally, the streetcar driver explains you know what, we’re not going to be moving until police come to respond to the car in front of us.”
Most of the riders ended up jumping off the stopped car but Lobb stuck around.
“(The operator) just says, ‘Look, it turns out (this is) because of sexual activity on the car in front of us,’” he recalled. “Three middle-aged women who are sitting variously around me — they’re about the only people including myself left on the car — break out laughing.”
don.peat@sunmedia.ca
Couple spotted in 'sex act' on TTC's King St. streetcar | Toronto & GTA | News |
By Don Peat, City Hall Bureau Chief
First posted: Thursday, November 20, 2014 07:35 PM EST | Updated: Thursday, November 20, 2014 07:44 PM EST
TORONTO - It must have been a streetcar named Desire.
A couple took riding the rocket to a new level just before 5:30 p.m. Thursday on board a westbound King St. streetcar.
TTC spokesman Brad Ross confirmed another streetcar rider reported the couple “who were engaged in some activity of a sexual nature” to the operator during evening rush hour.
“It was called in (around Yonge and King),” Ross told the Toronto Sun. “A supervisor met the streetcar at University Ave., the streetcar was heading westbound, and the couple had left ... I don’t know what kind of sex act it was.
“No arrests were made, they’d gotten off the car.”
The X-rated incident on the packed streetcar caused approximately a 20-minute delay along the city’s busiest streetcar route.
Although he didn’t see the dirty deed, TTC rider Adam Owen was on the streetcar when the operator hit the brakes around University Ave.
“The operator went over the intercom ... he said, ‘Indecent exposure is never OK. I’m stopping the streetcar right now. To the person who has done this indecent exposure, you need to leave the streetcar immediately or I’ll call the police,’” Owen said.
The streetcar continued to sit in traffic.
“I wanted to have a better view of everything so I got off the streetcar,” Owen said. “After a while the police came and went around the streetcar and talked to the operator.
“There were about three or four streetcars backed up ... the car traffic was also backed up because nobody wanted to go past the open (streetcar) doors.”
Owen, a regular on the King streetcar, said he’s “never seen anything like that before.”
He said he heard one of the police officers tell the crowd, “I love Toronto!” as they left the scene.
“There was really nothing to it,” Staff Sgt. Paul Bois said. “Just some intoxicated adults acting intoxicated.”
No further investigation was expected.
Robin Lobb was on the streetcar stuck behind the streetcar carrying the randy riders.
He didn’t get on the trolley containing the troublemakers at King and Jarvis Sts. because it was packed too full. Lobb’s streetcar ended up stopping near York St. when the first car hit the brakes.
“The streetcar driver (was) not telling us at all why is there this long, long delay,” Lobb said. “Finally, the streetcar driver explains you know what, we’re not going to be moving until police come to respond to the car in front of us.”
Most of the riders ended up jumping off the stopped car but Lobb stuck around.
“(The operator) just says, ‘Look, it turns out (this is) because of sexual activity on the car in front of us,’” he recalled. “Three middle-aged women who are sitting variously around me — they’re about the only people including myself left on the car — break out laughing.”
don.peat@sunmedia.ca
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