Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A surprised traveler on a busy Washington, D.C., road captured video of a teen taking a free ride by clinging to the back of a bus. Rasta Tahj posted a video to Twitter showing the young man clinging to the back of a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority X2 bus as it traveled at a high speed on Benning Road Northeast. Advertisement "I was driving home from work and I look up, and there's a guy on the back of the bus," Tahj told WRC-TV. Tahj said the teenager later contacted him on Twitter with an explanation for his behavior. "He just does a lot of stuff like that; he couldn't really explain it," Tahj said. Metro officials strongly condemned the teen's behavior. "What we all witnessed in the video was note just unsafe, it was reckless," a Metro statement read. "While we are thankful that this person was not injured or killed, those outcomes were very real possibilities." Read More Giant spool rolls through traffic on Houston highway Airborne wood smashes bus windshield on highway Pedestrians try to cross vehicles-only bridge in bus costume
