Bus Driver Suspended for Clubbing Fake Seal

(Halifax, Nova Scotia) A Metro Transit bus driver has been placed on suspension for clubbing a fake plush seal used as a prop during an anti-seal hunt protest on Saturday.

According to eyewitnesses, the driver had been joking Saturday about how bus drivers were getting a bad rap recently. Moments later, he drove by a seal hunt protest in front of the Halifax Common.

The driver then allegedly remarked: “Oh, there are the animal lovers,” and asked a rider he was chatting with, “Should I? Should I?”

Apparently, he decided he should. He stopped the bus, ran across the busy street and began clubbing a fake baby seal with a baton as baffled protestors looked on. The driver then ran back onto his bus and drove off, continuing his route.

The bloody and tear-stained seal prop was in front of a sign that said: “Hug me, don’t club me.”

According to Metro Transit General Manager Pat Soanes, bus operators are trained professionals and are expected to behave accordingly. Metro Transit will institute a two-day refresher course on customer relations and diversity.