However, this time the portly politician’s foibles did not include an illicit narcotics. The infamous admitted crack smoker was busted on Friday night — for jaywalking.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the police actually wrote the mayor a ticket for cross the street at the wrong time.
“He said, ‘I f’d up boys. I was just trying to cross the red light here, and this officer stopped me,’” Ian Currie, who saw Ford being ticketed by officers, told Canada’s Global News.
“He said ‘I thought it was looser on the West Coast, I thought you were cooler over here,’” Currie added. “We said, ‘it’s still the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police], man.’”
Ford and former aide David Price were each ticketed $109 for disobeying a pedestrian sign, according to the Toronto Sun. He told a reporter for the paper he was “shocked” and “embarrassed” and called the incident a waste of taxpayers’ money.
Not only does the disgraced mayor gets no love from his own countrymen, he can’t seem to stay out of his own way. This bit of news comes on the heels of the heat he received for throwing his support behind fellow Canadian — and equally infamous drug addict — Justin Bieber.
And this comes just a few days after Ford was accused in a civil lawsuit of conspiring to arrange for the beating of his sister’s ex-boyfriend, who is in prison. He also recently had another public relapse as he was caught in a state of extreme intoxication, this time in a fast food restaurant.
