A 70-year-old GTA resident received a visit from the cops after participating in the trend of sending gravy to Ontario Premier Doug Ford, a symboli...
Retired paralegal L. Lynne Irwin took to X on Wednesday, describing how police came knocking after he shipped a pair of powdered gravy packets to the premier's Queen's Park office.
Irwin admits to shipping the powdered gravy mix to Ford's office in the post, and claims to have told responding officers"that I had even called to tell them that I was sending them, and for them to expect a lot of gravy from angry citizens of this province." According to the post, Irwin told police that the gravy was sent"because Ford lied to us. We just wanted to send him gravy for his Gravy Train," a sarcastic reference to the Ford family's 2010s-era pledge to cut spending at City Hall — something criticsThey were referring to the 2 packets of gravy that I had sent to the Premier's office. I told them…Police reportedly had questions about Irwin's username on X, as well as other queries about the origins of the political meme.
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