As Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday so perfectly stated, we all know that videos can be altered and that drug dealers can’t be trusted. So, following this line of thinking, we can say without hesitation that the makers of this video are clearly untrustworthy drug dealers, probably. The video shows Mayor Rob Ford or possibly a lookalike named Slurpy meeting up with some hooded characters to smoke crack — actually, there’s no way to know what someone is smoking just from a video; it could be meth or opium — and subsequently destroying a miniature Toronto with the CN Tower or possibly becoming a giant and destroying a normal sized Toronto with the CN Tower — there’s no way to know just from watching the video.

Seems like the smoking gun the left-wing media-elite have been looking for to take down the people’s mayor until you consider this: the video is not real. If you look closely you’ll notice that the video has been made using claymation, a form of stop-motion animation that utilizes children’s  play-clay, and that the Ford-like figure seen wreaking havoc on the city in a drug induced haze is clearly a model. The makers of the video have altered the clay one frame at a time to create the illusion of movement. Watch here and you’ll see what I mean:

YouTube user Ex Post Facto probably thinks they’re pretty clever, but you have to get up pretty early in the morning if you want to pull a fast on the sleuths here at Toronto Standard.

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Michael Kolberg is The Sprawl Editor at Toronto Standard. Follow him on Twitter for jokes @mikeykolberg.

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