Pair of goats herded baaaack off the bus

For one dollar and 50 cents, C-Tran will allow anyone a ride on one of its buses.

Goats are another story.

A pair of wayward goats briefly boarded C-Tran’s No. 25 bus near the corner of St. James Road and Northeast 59th Street last week in Vancouver’s Minnehaha area.

The spectacle, captured on an onboard video camera, has gone viral since it was picked up as a news item by Portland television stations. Scott Patterson, the transit agency’s director of development and public affairs, said he fielded a call from the New York Daily News on Tuesday afternoon.

The incident occurred last Wednesday.

“I was like, ‘This has got to be some kind of joke,’” Patterson recounted. “It wasn’t a joke. It happened.”

Patterson said the two female riders who are seen on the video boarding the bus told the driver the two goats had followed them walking along the road (Goats don’t have to be licensed or registered in the city of Vancouver or in unincorporated Clark County). After the goats step aboard the bus, another passenger is seen in the choppy video herding them back out along their way.

“It’s just one of those weird, weird things,” Patterson said.