Rob Ford Allegedly Curses Out 911 Staff

Rob Ford's 'fuddle duddle' moment infinitely funnier than the This Hour Has 22 Minutes ambush that spawned it.

Update: Mayor Rob Ford issued a statement this afternoon stating that while he might have dropped an f-bomb or two in his conversation with 911 dispatchers, he in no way ever called the women on the other end of the line a bad name, as CBC has reported. Councillor Adam Vaughan is calling on the mayor to release the tape to put an end to the "he said, she said" rumour-flinging that's emerged since this morning. We're with Vaughan on this one.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford called 911 Monday morning after being ambushed by the cast and crew of This Hour Has 22 Minutes at his house. While he was perfectly within his right to do so, a recording of his conversations with the 911 dispatchers allegedly shows that the mayor used some pretty bad words to describe the employees who were taking his call. CBC says that Ford had become impatient while waiting for the police to show up, and harangued the operators by saying "You … bitches! Don’t you f--king know? I’m Rob f--king Ford, the mayor of this city!" Beyond sounding like the Canadian version of Kenny Powers, Ford can now lay claim to one of the greatest quotes ever uttered by a Canadian politician. "Don't you f--king know? I'm Rob f--king Ford, the mayor of this city!" is up there (and probably surpasses) Trudeau's "fuddle duddle," or Chretien's "For me, I put pepper on my steak." And while it's unfortunate that he had to (allegedly) verbally abuse 911 dispatchers to do so, we can thank whichever anonymous dispatcher leaked the tapes for giving us solid Rob Ford gold. This might as well be his re-election slogan.