“You Gotta Be F--King Kidding Me,” Says Mayor Lightfoot, Reading Saw IV Plot Summary on Wikipedia During Zoom Meeting

CHICAGO — In an unfortunate hot mic blunder Wednesday, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was caught muttering “You gotta be f--king kidding me,” during a virtual city council meeting, in reference to the unpredictable and unsettling twists in Saw IV’s plot, which she was catching up on via Wikipedia.

“A lot of times, I’ll turn to the world’s largest free online encyclopedia to check if a movie is going to be too scary for me to watch later,” said Lightfoot in a Twitter apology. “I used to go into movies blind, and ended up seeing some things I wish I hadn’t. I wanted to prevent a scenario like that from happening again. I’ve seen the first three installments in the Saw universe, but I know that horror series will really amp up the gore as they go along, and I’d hoped to avoid that.”

“I regret swearing on mic, but in this instance I’m glad I looked up the plot,” the mayor continued. “Now I’ll be prepared for the muted man to kill the blind man in order to obtain the key from the blind man’s collar, and it will scare me less now that I know it’s coming.”

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