Police taser man ripping skin from head

Provincial police say officers had no choice but to use a Taser on a passenger on a Greyhound bus who was found ripping the skin off his head.

Constable Pierre Dubois said the 30-year-old Montreal man's increasingly violent behaviour could have posed a danger to officers.

Dubois said the Ottawa-bound bus left Montreal at about 2:50 p.m. Tuesday, and about 90 minutes later, passengers realized someone had locked themselves in the bathroom.

When the driver stopped the bus at the service centre in St-Isidore, Que., and forced open the bathroom door, he was met with a gruesome scene.

Police say blood was pouring down the man's face from a self-inflicted wound to his scalp.

Dubois said although the man didn't have a weapon, police used a Taser on him because he was violent and "a threat to himself."