This is the first time I ever posted a .gif --- I hope it's OK if I steal it!
Posted on 07/17/2016 10:56:59 AM PDT by dennisw
Rock star Bono was caught up in the Bastille Day massacre and had to be rescued from a Nice restaurant by anti-terrorist police, it emerged today.
The 56-year-old U2 lead singer was on the terrace of 'La Petite Maison', next to the seafront in the French city when mass murderer Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel struck.
After Bouhlel drove a hired lorry into crowds enjoying a holiday firework display, killing 84 including 10 children, Bono and other diners were gripped by fear.
'Suddenly I saw people running, without shouting,' said Anne-Laure Rubi, the owner of the upmarket restaurant, which is popular with a number of celebrities. 'It was a silent panic - it was extraordinary.'
Ms Rubi told La Parisienne magazine that 'by reflex' she grabbed the arm of Christian Estrosi, the former Nice Mayor, who was sitting close to Bono.
'What's going on?' she said. 'He was on the phone. He didn't want to say much. I think he was just learning about the attack'.
Ms Rubi's staff pulled down the shutters, and instructed everybody to hide and remain calm, until the all clear was given.
Bono owns a home in the nearby town of Eze, and had been relaxing with friends when the atrocity started at around 10.30pm last Thursday.
As the slaughter on the Promenade des Anglais became clear, the star was eventually rescued by armed officers who led him to the nearby Massena square.
'It took around half an hour for the police to get us out,' said another diner. 'Like everybody else, Bono had to put his hands on his head, and was told to remain calm.
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He got special treatment while others were dying? Did I read that correctly?
Exactly.
Shut up and sing. Yeesh!
LMAO! How appropriate.
Police required everyone to leave their hands up until they determined who the bad guys were. Guess they knew he wasn’t a terrorist.
“In other words, he was found cowering under a restaurant steam table long after the immediate threat had passed.”
+1
In all fairness, he may have thought that there were Velociraptors on the loose!
*SMIRK*
Only thing I’d change in that gif is when the crescent gets to the Cross - it crumbles into a thousand pieces.
Matthew 21:44 “Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
Daniel 2:31-34:
31“Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. 34While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them. 35Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.
Should have left him.
He shouldn’t have come out of his electronically-guarded villa on Mount Olympus.
As with Stalone being in Nice,who gives a crap.
FU Bono
Make sure the celebrities are rescued first!
‘Love is bigger than anything in its way’: U2 star Bono ... Daily Mail
That’s all you have to say, Bono? Seriously? You know what, Bono? You’re just another brick in the wall:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK5WLq4pBFg
Six million Jews may beg to differ with that statement.
There is a gif where the Star of David rolls over the Crescent a few times before the Cross beats the Crescent. Everyone else flees.
For some reason I don’t think I could afford to dine in the restaurant he was in......
He was more upset about the greenhouse gasses that the truck was spewing into the atmosphere.
We will never hear the end of this from, Boner.
that works for me
This is the first time I ever posted a .gif --- I hope it's OK if I steal it!
That “Coexist” nonsense really irks me. How did that sentiment work out in Nazi Germany? Or Stalinist Russia?
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