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Mayor Rob Ford's street festival outing leads to renewed speculation

A flurry of Rob Ford sightings late Friday night at Toronto’s Taste of the Danforth Festival is renewing questions about the mayor's behaviour.

A series of videos posted to YouTube between the hours of 11 p.m. ET on Friday night and early Saturday morning show Ford walking around the popular Greek food festival by himself, occasionally stopping to pose for photographs.

Mala Turay posted a video online that shows Ford surrounded by people on a side street off of Danforth Avenue.

"I'm not driving. I'm not driving. I'm not driving," Ford is heard saying repeatedly.

Turay told CBC News the mayor was "stuttering" his words and "when I was talking to him I noticed he was not himself — he was drunk."

'I'm not driving. I'm not driving. I'm not driving.'
—Toronto Mayor Rob Ford
“The further he came up along the Danforth, the more people he was talking to, (and) the more obvious he became," he said.

Later in the video he can be heard asking people where to find the party.