Better than an autograph: “star-struck” 13-year-old witnesses Rob Ford stumbling and swearing
For those who spent the weekend avoiding the internet: good job. All you missed were some incremental developments in Crimea and, oh yes, another Rob Ford video.
The cellphone footage, taken by a 13-year-old boy in front of city hall on Saturday night, shows Ford standing in or near Nathan Phillips Square with a string of green St. Patrick’s Day beads around his neck. He can be heard agreeing to take a photo with the teenager (after the boy’s mother calls the mayor “awesome”). Then Ford starts yelling semi-incoherently about needing a taxi (“bro, I need a taxi van to take us home…”), after which he unleashes a string of profanity that CTV, which originally aired the video, chose to bleep out.
This isn’t the first time Ford has been caught seemingly inebriated at city hall on St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Details of his alleged drug-fuelled rampage on St. Patrick’s Day 2012 leaked to the press and provided the foundation for a series of Toronto Star investigations that ultimately led to his crack admission in November 2013. That same month, he vowed to quit drinking, but he was later forced to admit that he was still consuming alcohol when the Steak Queen video surfaced on YouTube in January.
The teenager who took this latest video was “star-struck” by the mayor—at least, according to CTV, who spoke to the boy’s mother. What a privilege, then, to see the master (of being recorded acting drunk in public) at work.
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For those who spent the weekend avoiding the internet: good job. All you missed were some incremental developments in Crimea and, oh yes, another Rob Ford video.
The cellphone footage, taken by a 13-year-old boy in front of city hall on Saturday night, shows Ford standing in or near Nathan Phillips Square with a string of green St. Patrick's Day beads around his neck. He can be heard agreeing to take a photo with the teenager (after the boy's mother calls the mayor "awesome"). Then Ford starts yelling semi-incoherently about needing a taxi ("bro, I need a taxi van to take us home…"), after which he unleashes a string of profanity that CTV, which originally aired the video, chose to bleep out.
This isn't the first time Ford has been caught seemingly inebriated at city hall on St. Patrick's Day weekend. Details of his alleged drug-fuelled rampage on St. Patrick's Day 2012 leaked to the press and provided the foundation for a series of Toronto Star investigations that ultimately led to his crack admission in November 2013. That same month, he vowed to quit drinking, but he was later forced to admit that he was still consuming alcohol when the Steak Queen video surfaced on YouTube in January.
The teenager who took this latest video was "star-struck" by the mayor—at least, according to CTV, who spoke to the boy's mother. What a privilege, then, to see the master (of being recorded acting drunk in public) at work.){kind=link}
FORD MORE BEERS!!!
Nice one!
The link for cellphone footage takes me to an Amazon webpage displaying cell phones for sale…
he is a mentally sick man…he needs help….do not vote him for mayor next term….i’m not!!!!
That’s why Rob Ford requires no recording devices of any kind within his city hall office. Must sign document agreeing to that. See http://globalnews.ca/news/1027295/star-reporter-sues-rob-ford/ . Can’t ban recording devices outside city hall… yet.
Thank you :)
I don’t know, sometimes I kinda suspect he may have a drinking problem, or something. Gotta watch it, could turn into something worse, like crack. Nay, a mayor would never do that.
Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve fixed the link.
I feel like I can’t take another seven months of this. And, the complete implosion when he loses the election and has another couple of months to go until the new mayor is sworn in. Might have to move to Hamilton temporarily.
What a huge surprise. Ford caught being himself again.
If the police would do their job, this would all be over. The man is a criminal. Hanging out in a crack house, pictured with a murdered kid who reportedly possessed the cell phone, videoed smoking crack, being sued for jailhouse beating, being videoed uttering death threats, drunk driving, beating his wife, and refuses to grant an interview to police. And the police have not arrested him. There’s something rotten in Denmark.