O'Bama's car is 'too big' for Oirish roads :))))

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
23/05/2011 20:47

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13507728

Barack Obama's cavalcade car caused some drama when it got stuck emerging from the gates of the US embassy in Dublin.



The low bottom of the car, nicknamed 'the beast' because of its bomb-proof features, seemed to catch on a ramp crossing over the gateway.



It is not clear if Mr Obama was in the car involved as security officials blocked the view of the incident.



The US President and First Lady then left by another exit.

newlad



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Message Posted:
23/05/2011 21:52

Sure it wasnt his head that was too big Mark,



Paul.

Lilli



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Message Posted:
23/05/2011 21:54

Well mark they will get him there by however means. You know what we are like. I remember once doing a show in Cork. It poured down all week. We were selling cosmetic products. The girls I had working for me young and beautiful. All High heels and short skirts, (their choice not mine) well we got the car stuck in the mud. Panic, How do we get to open up I though. Low and behold a tractor with a trailer pulled up and took us all to our stand. If you could have seen us.Every day they waited for us. Now where would you get that, they didnt even get theie shoes dirty. Forget Limos when you can get there by tractor x

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
23/05/2011 23:19

Apparently the car cost over £1million.

newlad



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Message Posted:
23/05/2011 23:39

A mill and they still didnt get the measurements correct,



Paul.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
23/05/2011 23:49

I wouldn't mind it if Obama gets fed up with it.

Deniz1


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 07:21

How did they get it off the ramp in the end? Too heavy for a normal jack?

Happy Hussar


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 09:02

I was home in Dublin recently and was amazed with how good the roads and infrastructure were. The fecking armoured car was too low to the ground and got stuck on a not too steep ramp. No way was it too big for the Irish roads. ( only sad Norn Iron Prods use the word Oirish!)

Tony

dublinderm


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 09:15

It was caught at the exit from the US Embassy - so techically an AMERICAN road!!!!!



No doubt it will be a Utube success.



Great visit, pity it was cut short.



DD

Tango1


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 09:26

I watched it on TV this morning and the clank as metal crunched on tarmac was very audible. Apparently Mr and Mrs O were not in it and they didn't show how they managed to dislodge it.



Tango1

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 16:39

I think they called in Murphys to dig the road up.

gottheyips


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 17:01

(Very Sad) Happy Hussar ( only sad Norn Iron Prods use the word Oirish! ). What is that all about ?



A Proud Dragoon.

paddywack


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 18:19

Msg 12,

Just being his normal sectarian self.

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 18:34

re 12 /13 Now THAT is sad..



NornIrn Prods don't usually have Oirish passports and marry ( OK, it 'only' lasted 11 years ) R Catholic lasses.. but hey.. let's not folk who don't HAVE a clue get in the way of a bit of 'fun'.. :p

dublinderm


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 18:37

Yea!



Leave 6ms alone. He is one of "us" after all.



I have never heard anyone from NornIrn or the Free State use that word. I tought it was the title of a newspaper - The Oirish Sun!!!!



Will this incident qualify as an American joke? Maybe Negnick can use it next week.



DD

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 18:53

Thanks DD ;)



MY use of the term 'Oirish' is merely an accentual of the phonetic .. nought more..

dublinderm


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 18:57

We get ya Mark!!



DD

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 21:48

BTW, DD



I'll be shouting for Norn Irn, tonight... but don't expect to win ;)

Happy Hussar


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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 22:13

Gottheyips, yes I was a bit sad there sorry. Theres something about 6ms that gets my hackles up! perhaps he is just far too handsome! if fact I hate him.

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 22:15

Dear Tony,



re 19



you might be 'happier', now you just went 1-0 up ;)

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 22:23

Bugger 2-0 Robbie Keane scores - seizing on a TERRIBLE back pass

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 22:34

and now an own goal....3-0 and it's only half-time :(

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
24/05/2011 23:11

4-0 - penalty ... only 23 mins til full time..

SulCon


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Message Posted:
25/05/2011 20:36

By the way the "Free State" ceased to exist in 1937. The country is called Ireland.





The Irish Free State (Irish: Saorstát Éireann) (1922–1937) was the state established as a Dominion on 6 December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed by the British government and Irish representatives exactly twelve months beforehand..... The Irish Free State came to an end in 1937, when the citizens voted by referendum to replace the 1922 constitution. It was succeeded by the entirely sovereign modern state of Ireland.

Zoots


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Message Posted:
25/05/2011 20:41

It's still free though, just like Scotland looks like heading.

mmmmmm



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Message Posted:
26/05/2011 01:05

I never understood why many folk in N.Ireland still describe Eire / Rep. Ireland as "the free state"...it sort of implies it was 'good' to be free of being British !...





@ Zoots :



you can have your 'independence' as long as you can afford it .. Resident Scots folk get considerably more UK tax pounds per head than those resident in England, do ;)