Maybe it was only a matter of time before someone set up a Rob Ford bus tour. It’s just that a self-styled satanic preacher did it first.

“Praise the devil!” shouted Morgan Wilkes, leader of the “RoFo Bus Tour” through Etobicoke, who spoke of the infamous Ford scandal hot spots while in character as the pastor of the devil-worshipping shock-comedy group, Cloven Path Ministries.

“It’s meant to be fun for people,” he said with a southern-preacher drawl, gesticulating erratically in a three-piece maroon suit and pink-tinged aviator sunglasses.

“I don’t mean to get all preachy, but I am an evangelical prophet of Satan.”

Less an informative trip through Ford Nation than performance art on wheels, the hour-long tour struck a note of weirdness that’s in harmony with the affairs of Toronto these days. You could pose for photos in front of 15 Windsor Dr., where police believe the notorious crack video was made, gaze at the spot where the mayor was caught on camera urinating in public, or speak with a bumbling Ford “look-alike” as he offered to smoke crack in the nearby woods of Douglas B. Ford Park, named after the mayor’s father.

“We figured if we don’t do it, somebody else will,” said Brother James, who played a Cloven Path acolyte with a shaggy beard and also calls himself “Jesus Maggot.”

“We’re never threatening,” he said. “We’re offensive, but we’re never threatening. And that’s why we can get away with it.”

The first stop on the tour was the “shady gas station” down the street from the mayor’s home where police photographed accused drug dealer Alexander “Sandro” Lisi placing mysterious envelopes near Ford’s Escalade. Wilkes invited those on the bus to “take your own surveillance photo” of the gas station dumpster.

As the van rumbled past Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy, where the mayor and his brother, Councillor Doug Ford, went to high school, Wilkes held up a T-shirt bearing the mayor’s likeness, telling those on board that it would cost a $15 “pledge of faith.” He added that the shirt had magical properties such as the ability to make women’s breasts grow, and waved a vial of dark liquid — “just $2!” — that he said would cure cancer and “grow a midget.”

Before long, it became obvious that a Star reporter is the only person on the tour Monday — the third tour of the day, Wilkes said — that wasn’t involved in the act. A man on crutches who appeared skeptical and concerned at the Satan preaching, was cured of his injury when Wilkes took away his crutches, forced him to crawl across the floor of the van, blessed him in the name of Satan and pushed him back into the arms of another Cloven Path follower.

The van then swept by the Ford family business, Deco Labels & Tags, in north Etobicoke, before heading south along Royal York Rd. for a final stop at Douglas B. Ford Park.

Wilkes led the tour onto the grass, where a rotund man in a shirt and tie was stumbling around in an apparent stupor, guzzling greenish liquid from a Listerine bottle. It was the “ROFO look-alike.” The real Rob Ford has never been accused of drinking Listerine.

When asked for a comment, the fake mayor said, “(Ford) has been an inspiration to me. He’s been unjustly vilified … Nothing’s better for the city than Rob Ford.”

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Then the “look-alike” dropped a small baggie of white powder on the grass, invited the tour-goers into the woods to do drugs, and then stumbled off, alone.

The Cloven Path Ministries “ROFO Bus Tour” costs $20 per person. But following an "altercation" with someone during a tour Monday afternoon, Wilkes said he had to renegotiate with the bus company. Tours are set to resume December 1 from the Royal York subway station.