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“The bus driver tried to tell the guy ‘it’s full, you can’t get on so take your bike off the rack and catch the next bus’—that kind of thing,” said Ms. Ward.

Instead, the man stubbornly sat on the bike rack to prevent the departure of the bus, and demanded a TTC supervisor.

“That’s when people started getting off the bus to get on the next bus, which was right behind us,” said Ms. Ward. Ignoring the insults of restless commuters, the wool-capped man strode onto the rapidly emptying bus and sat down.

Until the arrival of police, the bus sat completely empty, save for the wool-capped man, the bus driver and Ms. Ward, who stayed to act as a witness.

“I’ll stay as long as they need me. This is my TTC as well,” read her post.

TTC spokesman Brad Ross confirmed to the National Post that there “was a disturbance at Pape Station last Friday that required police and TTC special constables.”

However, Mr. Ross was unable to confirm the identity of the man — or link him to earlier sightings of the “TTC leprechaun.”

After a tense police encounter in which the wool-capped man repeatedly demanded the officer’s badge numbers and recorded their encounter via cell phone, he was arrested and removed from the bus.

“He said on the bus that he had sued the police before and that he had won and that’s what he was living off of now — his motives seemed very clear to me,” said Ms. Ward.