Barack gets car stuck at Dublin Embassy

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKym-Zi3mOQ]YouTube - ‪Barack gets car stuck at Dublin Embassy May 23rd 2011‬‏[/ame]

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I could hear the "clang" when the car went over the hump. Ouch!
 
The story:

Obama's 'Beast' vehicle sticks on a ramp in Ireland
1 hr 28 mins ago

DUBLIN (AFP) – 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.

After a while, the Obamas switched to another car to drive to the Marine Force One helicopter waiting to whisk them to the village of Moneygall, where one of Obama's great-great-great-grandfathers came from.

The Beast is designed to withstand all manner of attacks.

The 24-hour stop in Ireland is the first step in Obama's week-long tour of Europe, which will also take in Britain, the G8 summit in France and Poland.
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Obama's 'Beast' vehicle sticks on a ramp in Ireland - Yahoo! News
 
I wonder if it grooved the pavement.... If so they should turn it into a tourist attraction. "come see where obama left the Mark of the Beast"

*shrug*. Better than a stupid stone
 
See this photo & video on BBC TV
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BBC News - The Beast: Obama's armoured car gets stuck on a ramp
 
It's just a poorly designed ramp not for limos. Notice it goes up the hill a bit then goes down a bit sharply with a metal piece sticking out. No one's fault for that....things happen.
 
Wow. Obama is very lightweight. IF William Taft sit in the back, the limo front wheel is gonna be hanging in the air. :lol:
 
sequoias said:
It's just a poorly designed ramp not for limos. Notice it goes up the hill a bit then goes down a bit sharply with a metal piece sticking out. No one's fault for that....things happen.
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I'm guessing that "metal piece sticking out" is the spikes preventing vehicles from illegally entering embassy :dunno:
 
and... who'd ever thought that while President's limo is designed to withstand bomb, machine guns, biological attack, etc... a "speed bump" could stop it? :giggle:
 
Jiro said:
and... who'd ever thought that while President's limo is designed to withstand bomb, machine guns, biological attack, etc... a "speed bump" could stop it? :giggle:
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too bad that limo didn't have hydralics to lift it up higher to over obsacles. :giggle:
 
Jiro said:
I'm guessing that "metal piece sticking out" is the spikes preventing vehicles from illegally entering embassy :dunno:
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No, they don't work that way.

Most places that use the barricades don't use spikes, but solid barriers that pop up. (I've seen them at the base gates, and TCS saw one stop a semi, uh, oh.) You're thinking of old drive-in movie theater entrances. :lol:
 
Reba said:
No, they don't work that way.

Most places that use the barricades don't use spikes, but solid barriers that pop up. (I've seen them at the base gates, and TCS saw one stop a semi, uh, oh.) You're thinking of old drive-in movie theater entrances. :lol:
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ah I see. We still use spikes and pop-up barriers in NYC - somewhere around Wall Street and some critical zones.
 
Jiro said:
and... who'd ever thought that while President's limo is designed to withstand bomb, machine guns, biological attack, etc... a "speed bump" could stop it? :giggle:
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The engineers better rethink that one. :giggle:

Also, the Secret Service are supposed to do a dry run of the route ahead of time to look for potential obstacles. I guess they overlooked this one. Embarrassing.
 
The president's drives? OMG.

I highly doubt the president drives anywhere for official functions.
 
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