Posted on 05/23/2011 2:35:50 PM PDT by traumer
It's designed to protect the President from terror attacks but Barack Obama was left red-faced after one of his armour-plated Cadillacs was brought to a halt as it left the U.S. Embassy in Dublin. The gigantic bomb-proof General Motors vehicle, with eight-inch thick steel on its door, didn't even make it as far as the road outside the consulate. The car had to be abandoned after the collision in front of waving crowds while Mr Obama and his wife were en route to his ancestral home in County Offaly.
Embarrassing: One of Barack Obama's fleet of armoured cars gets stuck on the ramp of the exit of the U.S embassy in Ballsbridge Co.Dublin Luckily, the vehicle that broke down was the spare limo used by the President's Secret Service protection team. Mechanics rushed in to rescue the vehicle which was lodged helplessly on the ramp, while onlookers stood and watched - some of whom took video footage and photos.
The cars, worth over $1million, is 18ft in length, weighs 8 tons and 8in thick armour plating on its doors. When the President is riding in one, the vehicle is officially known as Cadillac One. However, it's more apt nickname is 'The Beast'. Specially built for Mr Obama, the General Motors GM.N vehiclse boasts its own oxygen supply in case of chemical attack and puncture resistant, run-flat tyres with kevlar. However none of this, it appears, could overcome the might of a lowly speed hump.
Secret Service spokesman Robert Novy said: 'A Secret Service spare limousine, carrying staff and support personnel only, bottomed out at the top of the driveway rendering the vehicle inoperable. 'Occupants were relocated into other vehicles and the motorcade departed out another exit without further incident. There were no injuries.
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The vehicle had just left a roadside tamale stand.
They REALLLY want us to know Obama wasn’t in it! lol
“The best-protected car in the world defeated by an Irish ramp”
US Embassy ramp.
video in the link.....
County Offal is more like it...
More hysterical video here: http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2011/0523/media-2963651.html
The license of one of the passengers said Harrison J Bounel.
He thinks he's the Queen.
Lesson learned: Don’t buy a General Motors vehicle.
Someone in the Secret Service is doing a Facepalm...
I think Toyota should use this in a commercial. LOL
Yeah....and somebody’s ass is gonna fry....the little Dictator don’t like to be embarrassed.
GM......Government Motors...go figure!!!
*smiles*......Biden touched the car before it left.
It sounds more like it high-centered itself. Still, chalk that one up as a self-inflicted “mobility kill”. Now every speed bump on earth will have to be removed, although a set of dub “plus fours” would probably solve the problem, and be more street-smart for the other “Beast”.
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