Blood-red fluid causes bus nightmare
A packed bus ride through Vancouver turned into a nightmare for passengers, who noticed what appeared to be blood pouring down from the roof to the floor.
The incident that could have come straight out of a horror movie was filmed and posted to YouTube by passenger Luka Banicevic.
"We got s--- leaking back here!" Mr Banicevic said as he filmed the red liquid gushing down on the 99 B-line bus on March 19.
"A little bit of panic ensued in this packed bus behind me, as you can hear from all the voices,” he later wrote on YouTube.
He compared the walls to a scene in The Shining where blood flows from the elevator doors and said the bus might need an exorcism.
Passengers can be heard shouting at the bus driver to stop the bus and open the doors, as they move away from the red liquid dripping down the walls and pooling on the floor.
"Hazardous. It's flammable, probably," Mr Banicevic yelled.
"It could be blood. Should probably stop the bus," he said shortly before the bus pulled over and passengers rushed out onto the street.
The blood-like liquid was actually non-flammable hydraulic fluid, according to TransLink spokesperson Chris Byran.
“No one was injured. The bus was safely parked and then towed back to the garage,” Mr Bryan said in an email sent to The Vancouver Sun.
"After a two-hour repair, the 99 B-Line bus was back in service. The cause of the fluid leak is still being determined.”
TransLink says at no time were passengers in danger from the fluid.
Morning news break – March 26
