Man sets fire to Toronto bus

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CCTV footage of the incident on board bus #1517 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:

On Wednesday, September 2, 2009, at 2:40 a.m., police responded to a call for a fire on a
TTC bus in the Yonge Street/Bloor Street area.

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What a complete idiot honestly well he's been caught on CCTV so hopefully he'll be caught soon.

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Yep! And sure enough, he was caught by police the next day.
Story with background on incident here: www.thestar.com/Crime/article/690504

[londonbusboy]

A question now.

Whats the point with companies buying Hybrids as they cost about the same as 2 new diesel buses and in this case this brand new bus was written off so a huge loss. If it was a diesel the loss wouldnt be as much

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I guess they hope that the money the save in operating the vehicle will eventually make the extra cost worth it. Unfortunately Toronto has had the experience where the savings in fuel didn't live up to their projected numbers and batteries failed prematurly and had to be replaced.

[londonbusboy]

Yeah so it seems by buying hyrbids your taking much more of a risk as u say the batteries do cost alot.