CT Transit employees, already facing threats of Covid-19 spread on the job, encountered a new threat during a ride down State Street: a naked man in the street yelling, pounding on the glass, and trying to get on board.
The incident took place at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday on State Street near the intersection of Wall.
A group of CT Transit workers were on board for an “employee run” from downtown New Haven to the Hamden CT Transit garage.
The naked man stopped the bus, yelled, walked from one side to the other, tried to board, began to kick and bang on the door. The door remained closed.
“Oh, I’m stressed!” one of the employees cried out. Others laughed.
“I’m going to be late,” said another.
“This guy’s gonna get tased.”
One of the CT Transit workers captured the action on Facebook Live. The video has been viewed more than 50,000 times.
“He looked like he was on some kind of drugs,” one of the employees present on the bus told the Independent. “My mind was all over the place. I never saw something like that. It was my first time.”
The video shows a fire truck arriving, the man walking back and forth from the two vehicles, and employees calling police for help. Then it ends.
The police subsequently arrived and took the man to the hospital for evaluation, according to police spokesman Capt. Anthony Duff. No charges were filed.
“He did minor damage to the bus’s front door window. The police arrived shortly after the Facebook video ends and the bus was released a few minutes later,” stated CT Transit General Manager Cole Pouliot. “He never entered the bus and there were no injuries to our employees.”