Coun. Doug Ford filmed, followed and called the police on a Mayor Rob Ford impersonator Sunday afternoon, accusing him of “stalking” the Fords’ mother — a charge the actor calls “ludicrous.”

Speaking Monday at City Hall, Ford acknowledged he called the cops and confronted the mayoral mimic, who was stationed at the end of the cul-de-sac on Weston Wood Rd. as part of a comedy troupe’s Ford-themed bus tour of Etobicoke.

“He’s outside, clicking pictures through from the street into the window,” said Ford. “Don’t come after my 80-year-old mother and stand there for four hours. And she’s wondering if it’s a stalker or it’s a lunatic or whatever. It’s unacceptable.”

The impersonator, Dave McKay, said he saw no sign of Ford’s mother on the west-end street and firmly denied taking any photographs during his time there.

“To claim that I’m stalking his mother, who I didn’t even know lived there — that’s pretty low,” said McKay, 50, a Vaudeville performer also known as Sketchy the Clown.

“I had the impression (Doug Ford) is a classy guy. Now I’ll have to reconsider that.”

Toronto police Const. Wendy Drummond told the Star police responded to a “suspicious incident” in the area on Sunday. She said they received a call about a man who was “sitting out front of a home for several hours.”

Police investigated and no charges were laid, Drummond said.

The “Rofo Bus Tour” was set up by Cloven Path Ministries, a shock comedy group of self-styled Satan worshippers. McKay was hired to wait on Weston Wood Rd. in a Volvo he borrowed from one of the Cloven Path members. When the tour buses arrived, he would stumble through the adjacent Douglas Ford Park — named after Ford’s late father — acting as an inebriated Mayor Ford.

McKay said that at about 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, a “genial” Coun. Ford came out and posed for photographs with people on the tour.

About two hours later, McKay said an SUV pulled up behind his car. A man McKay recognized as the mayor’s driver stepped out and “expressed his displeasure” with the tour, he said.

McKay then noticed Mayor Ford — who appeared “angry” — leaning toward the passenger window with a glowering look. At the same time, McKay said Coun. Ford approached him again, holding up a camera and telling him he would post the video online.

“They had people on either side of me; they had a giant SUV with the lights shining on me; they had a camera pointed at me … Basically it was intimidation,” he said.

McKay said he offered to leave and started to drive away. He believes he was followed by both Ford brothers for about 15 minutes as he drove back to Royal York Station, the bus tour’s starting point. On the way, McKay was stopped by Toronto police.

“I explained that I’m actually a clown. I had a bag with some glitter and balloons,” said McKay, who added that police then escorted him to the subway station, where the tour organizers were able to confirm his story.

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This is at least the third time Coun. Ford has accused someone of “stalking” his mother. He levelled the charge at the Star after a reporter approached his mother when working on a profile during the 2010 election and raised it again in May, while defending his brother the existence of the now infamous crack cocaine was first reported.

The Fords also have a history of calling the police on people they allege to be infringing on their privacy. Last spring, Star reporter Daniel Dale was on the public property behind Mayor Ford’s home to research a story when the chief magistrate charged him with his fist cocked, later inaccurately alleging Dale was peering over his backyard fence and photographing his family. Police said there was “no evidence” for a charge against Dale.

With files from Daniel Dale

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