More on the chatty GO bus driver ... Man Asked GO Transit For Money In Exchange For Pic Of Driver Using Phone

Picture of GO bus driver using phone published in the Toronto Sun, Feb. 11, 2011. Photo linked/embedded from CityNews.ca

ONTARIO - A man asked GO Transit for payment in exchange for a photograph of a bus driver allegedly using a cellphone while behind the wheel, the transit agency says.

“A person did contact GO Transit earlier this week (Feb. 7) and asked us to pay for a photo that the person claimed to have taken of a GO bus driver using a cellphone while in operation,” GO Transit spokeswoman Vanessa Thomas told CityNews.ca.

“As a provincial agency, we did not purchase that photo,” she added. “We appreciate that the photo was brought to our attention. The person didn’t provide us with the photo and now through the media we’ve seen the photo.”

GO wouldn’t provide any information about the man who captured the image. The Toronto Sun, which ran the photo Friday, only identified the photographer as a 19-year-old named Peter.

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