No injuries are reported after a nine-year-old boy stole a city bus in Saskatoon and managed to drive it for a couple of blocks Saturday morning.
Police say the bus was stolen from the bus garages on 300 block of 24th Street West, near downtown.
CBC reporter Steve Pasqualotto was driving south along nearby Idywyld Drive toward downtown when he looked over and saw the child at the wheel of the bus.
Another witness, Michael Pritchard, said he saw the boy take the bus and followed him.
“I just thought, follow the bus and try to stop it,” Pritchard told CBC News.
The boy eventually stopped at the corner of Idylwyld Drive and 25th Street, after getting the bus hung up on the curb.
That’s when Pritchard opened the doors and pulled the boy out of the bus and waited for authorities to arrive, he said.
“When [the boy] stopped I kind of pulled in front and got so he couldn’t go nowhere. And then I told him, get out of the bus,” Pritchard said.
Police say the boy hit two vehicles — a parked city bus and another parked car — but no one was hurt.
Since the boy is 9-years-old police cannot lay charges.
Officers have confirmed he was taken home and is now with his family.