President Obama's Limo gets stuck, oops

On its way out of the US Embassy in Dublin, President Obama’s heavily armored limo, Cadillac One (AKA “The Beast”), struck a ramp and subsequently got stuck, forcing POTUS to abandon car.

Obama arrived in Ireland this morning to kick off a six-day tour of Europe, which will include stops in the UK, France, and Poland.

-bbc
EMPIREsays...

it is very silly that a car that is known to be so safe and whatnot, can't even make it out of a drive way, but let's be honest...

who the fuck built that ramp? it was seriously poorly built, even all the other cars seemed to struggle with it. You would think it was built by a bunch of drunk Irish...oooooooooh.. wait...

siftbotsays...

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Paybacksays...

There's some serious damage under there. Check out the front wheels.

Actually, now that I look at it slowly, the front suspension collapsed going over the bump. Probably blew a fitting on the air suspension.

Porksandwichsays...

I don't think anything failed on the suspension of the car. It just looks like the car got stuck on the peak. You could hear the other cars making that pop-pop sound when they went over where something was rubbing the car. It doesn't look like the thing has retractable spikes to keep people from going in the out way, but it might and that might be what is making the popping noise on other cars. And.....if it does then when the limo gets stuck on the peak..it can't backup because of the spikes holding the guts of the car that might extend past the bottom of the frame. Which if the car did go back a little, that might be why the front tires look so compressed being stuck on the spike and mashing the tires down as the weight settles and the car is held down by the spikes.

My guess at least, doesn't look like anything on the car failed. That vehicle was obviously too long to go over such a short peaked ramp given it's clearance. When cars half it's length were having issues...they should have stopped them.

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