Obama's 'Beast' vehicle sticks on a ramp in Ireland

yahoo/afp ^ | 5/23/11

[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.

[autumnraine]

HA! I thought the same thing.

Also, flies around the mouth... it would seem someone supernatural is trying to tell us something. Well, those who don’t already know it.

[philman_36]

High centered.

[afraidfortherepublic]

How quickly will he order a new limo?

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

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.

My question is how did they get the "Beasty" INTO the car park in the first place? Maybe moochie walked along side...

Regards,
GtG

[penelopesire]

The comments at the link(and here) are pretty funny....LOL!!

[NonValueAdded]

Not only is the won out-Cartering Carter, he’s out-Gerrying Ford as well. If Chevy Chase got some blackface, he could start a whole new comedy schtick.

[CheezyD]

The Beast bottoms out... just like our economy.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Bet obammy needed a change of underwear when that thing hit.

[coldbluesteel]

Odrama thought the Beast was too big to fail.

[Never on my watch]

I think he is just going to insist that they get the 26 inch chrome spinner wheels that the he has wanted on the car from the start.

[IYAS9YAS]

My question is how did they get the "Beasty" INTO the car park in the first place? Maybe moochie walked along side...

Probably the same way I used to curb-hop in my very low to the ground Hyundai Elantra - it's all about angles. The straight-out approach didn't work, and any driver of long vehicles who couldn't see this coming, shouldn't be a driver of long vehicles, or the driver for the President of the United States.

[SERKIT]

The belly of the beast....

[Gator113]

Obama should simply learn to check his tire pressure... it will also help to save the world.

ANYTHING that gives Obama a bad day.... is a good day for America.

[Moltke]

Should have opted for the pneumatic “low rider” suspension instead of the bling wheels!

[shortstop]

“The Beast” is the Secret Service code name for the Wookie.

[dusttoyou]

Alqueerda would only have an interest in stopping the WON to give him a donation for the HopeyChangey Re-Elect campaign.

[Qbert]

Obama and his bloated Beast stuck on a ramp.

Perfect symbolism.

[cherokee1]

There’s a place called Ballsbridge? Do you know the school song? I think I hurt myself trying to figure out which came first?

[Tunehead54]

Well It grounded out pretty hard.

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It did indeed. They couldn't have been doing more than 5 MPH but I'm betting Obummer and the wookie weren't belted and ended up on the floor with the sudden stop. At least its a happy thought. Some people however are likely already out of their jobs.

[Dead Corpse]

Obummer and the wookie weren't belted and ended up on the floor with the sudden stop.

I hope they had cocktails going at the time. Now that would really top it off nicely. ;-)