Posted on 05/23/2011 8:27:38 AM PDT by EBH
US President Barack Obama's heavily armoured Cadillac, nicknamed "The Beast", became stuck on a ramp at the US embassy in Dublin, RTE state radio reported Monday.
The first cars in the presidential motorcade emerged up the ramp from the car park beneath the complex in Ballsbridge and passed through the gates without incident, but The Beast quickly ran into trouble and got beached.
"The Beast was coming along and suddenly there was a loud kind of bang, metal-on-metal, grinding, crunching noise and the car was stuck," an RTE reporter said.
The reporter said that as it drove out, the car appeared to have got its low underbelly caught on a piece of metal sticking up that a gate might lock into.
RTE said Obama and his wife Michelle stayed in the car while security officials and police officers went running over to the stranded vehicle.
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Well, great job. Now everyone knows that it is easy to immobilize Car Force One.
Don’t blame me...I guess there is even video!!!!
Now Al-Qaeda knows how to stop Car Force One, and it is simple. Just put a small metal obstacle in the road.
Not that I want Al-Qaeda to act on this knowledge.
Y'see.
Hmmm... a world leader riding the Beast... why does that sound so familiar?
Well It grounded out pretty hard. Looked strange. Someone in the crowd says, “nice bit of driving”. LOL
A harlot rides the beast.
Rev. 17.
Tell Michele she has to get out and walk!
Well, that was a great performance. For a moment there, the beast was vulnerable to a directed blast from underneath.
And the crowd was laughing and jeering at him. Now his psychosis will be flowering like in a hothouse and he’ll be looking to do some damage.
Wow Deja Voo!
I was driving a beast (rental Fiat Panda) in Ballsbridge and pulled off the entire plastic front end backing away from a b&b because it got stuck on a curb stone.
Amazing how long it took the security forces to get a vehicle in FRONT of the Beast after it was obvious it was not going anywhere.
That was an unacceptable lapse of security—for any POTUS.
My van’s always hitting the *top* of stupid parking garages.
Reminds me of when he stepped in front of crowd; and the Presidential Seal fell off his podium. Or those glitches, as when the rat ran; and the flies landed. . .
Funny, how these moments speak in 'metaphor'. The 'Telegraph' should have a great write on this one. But 'our' Lamestream Media will probably be forewarned, to just 'skip it'.
Yeah. Exactly.
After she gets out, they should hitch her up and let her pull it off the obstruction
Frightful breach of etiquette. How soon before a "kinetic intervention" there in the Emerald Isle?
If obama stopped throwing so many people under the bus, it might have a bit more clearance.
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