‘Let’s go party,’ Mayor Rob Ford demands in street festival video

A video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford acting in a bizarre manner appeared online late Friday night. Actually several videos.

Three videos of Ford were uploaded by YouTube user Adrian Sosa, who says he ran into Ford at the Taste of the Danforth street festival.

In one video, the mayor can be heard exclaiming "I'm not driving" while holding a large coffee cup and posing for photographs with a group of young men.

In another, he says he wants "to go up to the party, man" and tries to recruit several of the young men to play football. In the final video, he again appeals for those around him to go join the damn party. "Let's go party."

The jovial mayor sure seems like he has been enjoying the annual Greektown street festival, carrying a large Tim Hortons coffee cup as he winked at, and shook hands with, various passerby.

A witness told NOW Magazine that a the end of Ford's public appearance, staff members and as many as 10 police officers appeared and surrounded the mayor.

The night on the town comes amid increasing tension at Toronto City Hall.

This week we learned that another staffer had been removed from his office - making it eight departures since allegations that Ford was caught on video smoking from a crack pipe were made in May.

Departing deputy mayor Doug Holyday, who left for Queen's Park, urged Ford not to coach football.

And a local Toronto newspaper (which was not the Toronto Star) reported that Ford was threatened by a convicted drug dealer last year and accused by the man of owning him money.

Apropos of nothing, the definition of deja vu is, "the experience of thinking that a new situation has occurred before."

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