Sunday afternoon after having sex on a southbound subway train.
“At about 2:30 p.m., a couple was seen by other passengers engaged in intercourse on the train,” said TTC spokesman Brad Ross.
Making no attempts to be discreet, the amorous couple soon prompted a fellow passenger to press the subway’s yellow emergency strip, which brought the train to a stop at Spadina Station. It took 14 minutes for police to arrive.
In the meantime, as trains all along the north end of the University line snarled to halt, the couple staggered onto the platform to continue. The final seconds of their romantic entanglement were captured in a cellphone video now posted online. The face of the woman is not shown, although the man, whose pants are around his ankles, appears to be in his 20s.
After arresting the couple and charging them with engaging in a lewd act, police brought them to a hospital because “they both appeared to be quite intoxicated,” said Mr. Ross.
Subway sex has likely happened before, said Mr. Ross, but never on his watch. “I’ve never seen a report like this before, but that just means that nobody’s been caught,” he said.
In a series of public posts to the BlogTO website on Monday, other riders claimed to have witnessed oral sex on the TTC. On the GO Train, there are rumours of a “Corridor Club” where commuters have sex in train bathrooms.
