Except that nobody's buying it. That's what gets me about this particular incident: Everybody - the cops, the media, the general public - is treating it as the manufactured stunt that it almost certainly was.
But we're not talking about some piddling little misdeamer like a jaywalking. If the Fords are indeed the guilty parties here (and I think they are), then let's not mince words: The Mayor and his brother, a prominent City Councillor, are responsible for a fake bomb threat at City Hall. For reasons that can only be described as purely selfish, venal, political, self-serving grandstanding. (Not that there could be any "good" reasons for a scam that involves making up fake terrorism threats, but you know what I mean.)
And did I mention that the men responsible for this not-so-little excercise in criminality were the Mayor and another politician who's very much in the public eye? Not that it would be any better if they were nobodies, but their positions makes this episode all the more grotesque. And nobody appears to discussing this angle, which is just bizarre. I can only hope the police are quietly gathering the evidence they need to nail the Fords to the wall this time, because this is truly beyond the pale.
