Mayor of Canada’s largest city has issued a statement on the embarrassing situation

Nov 8, 2013 13:11 GMT  ·  By

The Mayor of Toronto, Canada Rob Ford is now in PR hell after a video of him threatening to kill unnamed enemies, and mumbling and swearing drunkenly has emerged online. He’s already issued an apology for the extremely embarrassing situation he’s finding himself in.

The video was obtained by The Star and is available online - on YouTube as well. We can’t embed it here because it contains incredibly offensive and graphic language, but the bottom line is that it shows a clearly intoxicated man coming unhinged.

“Last week, Police Chief Bill Blair announced that investigators had recovered two video clips relevant to extortion charges laid against the mayor’s ‘close friend’ Alexander “Sandro” Lisi. One of those videos is of the mayor smoking what appears to be crack, which two Star reporters viewed in May,” The Star writes.

The other video is this one referenced above. It shows the Mayor pacing to and fro in a room, discussing in a very heated manner what he’d do to an unnamed enemy if he got 10 or 5 minutes in the ring with him.

“I’m going to kill that [expletive]-ing guy. I’m telling you it’s first-degree murder. But when he’s down, I’ll rip his [expletive]-ing throat,” Ford rants.

He also refers to the other man as a “racist [expletive]” and rants against “birds,” which are supposedly his critics. Towards the end of the video, he’s barely making any sense, with The Star citing an inside source as saying that the Mayor was seriously “impaired” at the start of the evening, and only got worse during its course.

“The Star was told that Ford arrived at a supporter’s home and was clearly impaired. The Ford supporter was described to the Star as a businessman. Four people between the age of 20 and 60 were present during Ford’s outbursts. One made the video using a phone camera. This man appears to have been sitting on a couch near where the mayor was pacing, in front of a dining room table covered with a white tablecloth and surrounded by six chairs,” the publication writes.

The man who made the video then sold it to The Star, and they published it because the people who voted for him need to know the kind of man they voted for.

In a statement, Ford blames everything on his high alcohol intake that night but, as you are about to see in the next paragraph, he’s not really apologizing for it.

“The Toronto Star just released a video that I was very, very inebriated. All I can say is, again, I’ve made mistakes. I just wanted to come out and tell you I saw a video. It’s extremely embarrassing. The whole world’s going to see it. You know what? I don’t have a problem with that. I hope none of you have ever or will ever be in that state. Obviously, I was extremely, extremely inebriated,” Ford says.