METRO VANCOUVER -- Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's quiet personal trip to Metro Vancouver for a funeral set the Canadian Twitterverse on fire late Friday night after he was written up for jaywalking near a busy Coquitlam thoroughfare.

Ford refused to comment Saturday on claims that he was drunk in a nearby pub the previous night, when he stepped out briefly from the Best Western Hotel where he's staying in Coquitlam.

He laughed when asked about the jaywalking ticket. "What jaywalking ticket?" he said, chuckling, before ducking back in the hotel. It wasn't the usual media frenzy that Ford has no doubt become accustomed to in Toronto and there was no crowd surrounding him outside the hotel.

He then came back out a few minutes later and jumped in a cab. Two men seeking an autograph from Toronto's now world-famous crack-smoking mayor asked him to roll down the window to sign something, but he refused. He also declined to answer any of The Vancouver Sun's questions regarding claims he was cited for inebriation and jaywalking.

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Ford spokesman Amin Massoudi confirmed Rob Ford received a jaywalking ticket on Friday night. He did not receive any other ticket or citation.

Reports emerged on social media around 10 p.m. Friday that the mayor had been sighted getting the ticket near the Foggy Dew pub, a popular student hangout at Lougheed Highway and North Road.

Several young men in the area tweeted and uploaded photos to Instagram of the mayor looking dishevelled, with several users claiming the mayor was inebriated.

North Burnaby resident Michael Spencer was driving to a nearby White Spot when he saw police lights flashing and decided to pull over and investigate.

He said Ford was "basically self aware" and was "really nice" to numerous bystanders.

"He basically let everybody take pictures with him," Spencer said. "He was kinda saying 'I might get in trouble with this...'" noting that nearby officers weren't happy with the commotion.

Famous for admitting to smoking crack while in "a drunken stupor," Ford denied reports that he was drunk.

Soon after Global BC quoted witnesses that said the mayor was drunk, he told the Toronto Sun's Joe Warmington that he was "speechless" and "in shock" at the $109 ticket for crossing the street during a red light. But the witness retracted the statement about Ford being drunk on Saturday morning.

"All I have had here is a diet coke,” Ford told Warmington. He added that the whole incident was a "waste of taxpayers' money" and quipped that his love for the Denver Broncos may have got him ticketed in Seattle Seahawks country.

RCMP from both Burnaby and Coquitlam detachments have refused to comment on the incident.

A Foggy Dew employee denied reports that Ford had been partying at the establishment.

"We're at coat check and we haven't seen him," said a woman who refused to give her name.