[URBAN NOTE] On city councillors who'd beat up bike couriers

[rfmcdonald]

One person that critics have blamed for the excesses of Rob Ford is his brother Doug, a fellow city councillor who is the mayor's political lieutenant. Doug Ford has been blamed for encouraging his brother not to compromise with potential political enemies, something that Doug Ford himself has contested. That protest might have been more believable had he not been boasting about being ready to fight a rude bike courier.

Councillor Doug Ford, under fire at City Hall for his outspoken, bare-knuckle style, says being a politician is the only thing that stopped him from fighting a verbally abusive bicycle courier last week.

The mayor’s brother described last week’s altercation Sunday on the Newstalk 1010 radio show he co-hosts with Rob Ford.

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Doug Ford then said that last week he was accosted downtown by a bike courier, who said “some real nasty, nasty words” into the councillor’s SUV and then circled back to give him another earful.

The councillor, trying to drive into underground parking, got out because the courier was blocking him from pushing a button, he said.

“I told him if I wasn’t an elected official I’d kick his ass in about 10 seconds,” Doug Ford said. But the courier was still cursing him when he walked up from the garage, he said.

“All these construction guys are watching and he’s going at me full tilt and I’m thinking ‘Is this all part of the job, Rob never told me. . . ,” he said.

Mayor Rob Ford interjected: “There’d be one less courier because, trust me, Doug has been a kick boxer 10 years . . . I guarantee you that guy would have been history in about two seconds.”

Classy. What Jeremy Feist at Xtra! said.

Did our Mayor and his brother just gloat about how they would kick box a guy into dust? Fantastic, we've elected frat boys to office. Didn't John Belushi do a movie like this before he rode a speedball to heaven? Because there absolutely has to be a movie like that. There has to be an 80's movie starring John Belushi or someone like him where some stoner frat boy is elected to office, and he gets into fights and gives cabinet positions to all his friends and he fails adorably at everything he does.