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02-19-2009, 09:52 AM | #1 | ||
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Ok, this was fun.
Yesterday (Wednesday) I had to go to downtown Phx for a meeting. My meeting was at 9 and I left my house at 8. I had to take the 51 freeway down to my meeting and I knew that Obama's motorcade was going down that highway to get from his resort to his town hall in Mesa. I noticed the traffic was heavy and there were cop's (highway patrol) every 100 feet or so, I have never seen so many cops in one place at one time. So, I was about 1/2 way there when BAM, blowout in my right rear tire of my car. I pulled over to the shoulder. I got out of my car and a trooper pulled up behind me (within seconds, he was only about 1/4 mile behind me and probably saw the blow out). He said "Problem?" DUH. I showed him my tire and he said "come with me". He made me sit in the back of his patrol vehicle and told me I could NOT take any cell phone pic's of the motorcade. about 10 min. later the motorcade with all it's glory drove by. I was less than 40 feet from the leader of the free world. WOW, such a photo op but NO, I couldn't take a shot. After he was gone the cop actually helped me change my tire. Darn it all. it was impressive, I've never seen such an event.
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02-19-2009, 11:45 AM | #2 | |||
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You were closer than most at inaguration!!!!!
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02-19-2009, 12:02 PM | #3 | |||
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Very cool post.
Sorry about the tire. |
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02-19-2009, 12:31 PM | #4 | |||
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Good timing for a blowout -- you'd have probably got hung up in traffic anyway. What a nice cop!
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02-19-2009, 02:29 PM | #5 | |||
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COOL!! I can see where pointing a camera at the president could be hazardous to your health..
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02-19-2009, 02:35 PM | #6 | |||
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Was there a rainbow in the sky as the motorcade passed you? Did you see any unicorns?
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02-19-2009, 03:29 PM | #7 | |||
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I was going to ask the same thing.
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02-19-2009, 05:04 PM | #8 | ||
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I'm going to ask the same as TXBatman and Erin - perhaps glory streaming and all ????
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02-19-2009, 06:04 PM | #9 | |||
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cool beans, that the officer helped change the tire after woohooo lucky timing on that one huh!
nice and close, and no pics to take darn, interesting day for you wooho hugss sarah
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02-22-2009, 02:05 AM | #10 | |||
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Ya mean HE didn't stop and give you some of that stimulus money to buy a new tire???? Cool opportunity though.
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