Peeved by ‘pet’

London, Jan. 24 (Reuters): A British bus company has apologised to a girl who is led around on a leash by her boyfriend and describes herself as a human pet after one of its drivers threw her off a bus.

Tasha Maltby, 19, told British newspapers she was the “pet” of her 25-year-old fiance Dani Graves.

Pictures showed her dressed in black Gothic-style clothing with silver buckles on a silver chain — which the driver of a bus from the firm Arriva took exception to.

She told the Daily Mail newspaper yesterday that she was thrown off and told: “We don’t let freaks and dogs like you on.” Arriva would not comment on specifics but said it apologised if the couple felt they had been discriminated against.