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Crabs riding on train cause peak-hour chaos

A commuter has caused a scene on a train in Canada after bringing four live crabs onboard and giving them their own seats.

The bizarre scenario took place in Toronto during the afternoon peak hour rush and was documented by several passengers on social media.

One woman, Kristine Hughes, posted her account of the extraordinary scene on her Facebook page, which quickly went viral.

“There was a man sitting on the subway on my way home the other day with 4 live crabs sitting on the surrounding seats,” she wrote.

“Pretty casual stuff on a jam packed train.”

The crabs were set out over four different chairs on the train in Toronto. Source: Facebook/Kristine Hughes, Twitter/johnnyghicas
The crabs were set out over four different chairs on the train in Toronto. Source: Facebook/Kristine Hughes, Twitter/johnnyghicas

She went on to recount how one woman almost sat on a crab and quickly gave the man a piece of her mind.

According to Ms Hughes, the woman yelled: “What is this? Crabs on the seats? So no one can sit down? All these people standing here tired after working all day?”

“Then she smacked each crab off the seats so hard that they landed in someone’s lap and on another person’s feet and stormed off.

“Everyone was just standing around, holding their breaths, waiting to see how this guy was going to react,” Ms Hughes wrote.

The man accused the woman of assaulting the crab, and also of assaulting the woman who was hit by the flying crab.

“Then he just picked up the crabs, which are currently flaying around on the floor, and put them back on their seats,” Ms Hughes wrote to finish off her post.

A report was filed about the commuter crabs, but police will not investigate. Source: Twitter/johnnyghicas
A report was filed about the commuter crabs, but police will not investigate. Source: Twitter/johnnyghicas

Toronto Transit Commission spokesperson Brad Ross said he had never seen anything like this before.

“People have complained that they’ve gotten or seen crabs on the subway before, but not the crustacean type,” he joked to the CBC.

“We know that crabs do not belong on seats, they belong in buckets,” he said. “Even if those crabs come with some hot drawn butter and a bib, you can’t put crabs on a seat.”

On a more serious note, the spokesperson said there was a report made over the crabs and added there were also concerns for people who are allergic to shellfish.

“I’d like everybody to just get along,” he said. “Leave your crabs in the bucket.”

Toronto police spokesperson Gary Long told CBC that bringing crabs on public transit is not illegal and police would not be investigating.