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nikimcbee
05-23-11, 02:13 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxxuG2Ru9c

:har::har:

Our new Irishman-in-chief, seems to have a wee bit of a problem.

I thought they researched this stuff before the prez gets there, not after the fact.:doh:
Betonov
05-23-11, 02:25 PM
Priceless :):DL:D
Jimbuna
05-23-11, 03:34 PM
I guess he'll just have to walk to his engagement :DL
MH
05-23-11, 03:38 PM
Here is one for Obama:D

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ7n-gQ6hdEblnE0y4oCBxCvd5Rdimn9L0FztS-sZDBjjjCMQ_5pg
Oberon
05-23-11, 03:50 PM
:har::har::har::har:
kraznyi_oktjabr
05-23-11, 05:02 PM
Excellent start for Europe tour.

What will happen in London? Too little space to turn in street corner? :DL
Platapus
05-23-11, 05:20 PM
There are some USSS guys looking for a new job I reckon. :nope:

This is something that should not happen. :nope:
Tribesman
05-23-11, 05:27 PM
This is something that should not happen.
Its Ireland, its normal.
Platapus
05-23-11, 05:30 PM
Not for the POTUS motorcade. :nope:
kraznyi_oktjabr
05-23-11, 05:43 PM
There are some USSS guys looking for a new job I reckon. :nope:

This is something that should not happen. :nope:
Yeah. They could have painted "TARGET HERE" with nice big letters to rear passenger doors as well...
Tribesman
05-23-11, 05:53 PM
Not for the POTUS motorcade.
They filled the potholes on the road for him, what more does he want?
nikimcbee
05-23-11, 06:04 PM
They filled the potholes on the road for him, what more does he want?
gilded streets and rose petals.
krashkart
05-23-11, 06:16 PM
"Hello. Hannifen's Towing..." :DL

"Hi. Uh, we have a slight problem." :oops:
Platapus
05-23-11, 06:20 PM
All the routes that the POTUS will be traveling should be examined and tested for trafficability for all the vehicles in the motorcade.

Any road that can't handle the motorcade is excluded from the list of primary, secondary, ... routes that the USSS plans out.

Nothing is assumed, presumed, or untested.

They may not be fired, but they won't be working protective services anyway. And rightfully so. This is an inexcusable error in judgment and implementation.

Could you imagine if there was an incident and the POTUS' beast could not leave the area??:nope:
Tribesman
05-24-11, 01:52 AM
Any road that can't handle the motorcade is excluded from the list of primary, secondary, ... routes that the USSS plans out.

It wasn't a road, it was the US embassy driveway.
Could you imagine if there was an incident and the POTUS' beast could not leave the area??
Are you sayng the Dublin embassy is too dangerous to hold your president?
papa_smurf
05-24-11, 05:46 AM
Must of been one of his distant cousins driving the limo:har:
Jimbuna
05-24-11, 06:11 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxxuG2Ru9c

:har::har:

Our new Irishman-in-chief, seems to have a wee bit of a problem.

I thought they researched this stuff before the prez gets there, not after the fact.:doh:

Actually Jason I've been thinking and this ranks up there with my own personal experience regarding a stretched limousine when I arrived at Houston the other year :DL

http://www.premierlimousine.com/images/limo01animated.gif
danasan
05-24-11, 06:16 AM
This was even here in Germany in the TV news, nice laugh.

As the driver wasn' t shown, could it have been Bernhard?
Penguin
05-24-11, 06:39 AM
ha, Obama calls this a motorcade?
He should learn from Putin the Great:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui07fFn4UWA :know:
Jimbuna
05-24-11, 07:58 AM
Looked more like an Indycar event :o
Oberon
05-24-11, 08:01 AM
:doh: Is Putin even in that lot? Does he have a secret service detail for each skin molecule or something? :doh:
Sailor Steve
05-24-11, 12:59 PM
:doh: Is Putin even in that lot? Does he have a secret service detail for each skin molecule or something? :doh:
:nope: Haven't you been keeping up? With Putin each skin molecule IS a Secret Service detachment!
Oberon
05-24-11, 01:49 PM
:nope: Haven't you been keeping up? With Putin each skin molecule IS a Secret Service detachment!

:har::har::har: :yeah:
Platapus
05-24-11, 02:06 PM
It wasn't a road, it was the US embassy driveway.

If it makes you feel better, substitute "traveled way" in place of "road"

Are you sayng the Dublin embassy is too dangerous to hold your president?

Please review my postings on this topic and let me know where I posted this.
August
05-24-11, 03:21 PM
Naw the clearance was sufficient until all those fat butt politicians got in. :DL
Platapus
05-24-11, 03:22 PM
Naw the clearance was sufficient until all those fat butt politicians got in. :DL

There are just some things that a truck suspension can't be expected to handle. :yep:
Tribesman
05-24-11, 04:12 PM
Please review my postings on this topic and let me know where I posted this.
What possible difference would it make if that car couldn't leave the driveway?If it couldn't leave the driveway then it would be stuck at the embassy which isn't a problem
Unless of course you think the embassy isn't a safe place to keep ther president during an incident in which case he can just drive out the other entrance like he did or simply fly out.

Naw the clearance was sufficient until all those fat butt politicians got in.
Pity it was the "spare" then without the politicians in it, must be those fat butt secret service guys, just like it was with the preceeding car which also bottomed out on the driveway.
Platapus
05-24-11, 05:08 PM
What possible difference would it make if that car couldn't leave the driveway?If it couldn't leave the driveway then it would be stuck at the embassy which isn't a problem




Actually it would be stuck in the driveway... outside the building. Even thought the new beast is designed to withstand attacks when stationary, it still is not a good thing.

I hope you are not suggesting that in case of an attack that the USSS would take the POTUS out of the beast and walk him, in the open, to the back door of the embassy. That is not exactly a secure plan. :)