"The beast" high centered in Dublin
 

Sorry if it is a repost.

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So, does it look like the suspension collapsed, or do you think it just high centered?

Armored limo, high centered.....you would think they would have fixed the hump, been aware of it and took at an angle or exited another way. Bet some heads rolled on this faux paus....

lol. Need a push mate?

I have to agree. It sure looks like the front suspension collapsed.

That RR tire come off the ground.

Do you think they are running airbags and something like the gate track breached a line under the car. Like the oil lines on the 911?

Watch closely and you can see the front suspension collapse. Compare the front ride height before and after and it's about a foot lower in the front. If it were a high center there would be less weight on the suspension and ride height would be increased.

It definitely high-centered. The BMW before it hit the ridge as well. There are other videos of the same event from different angles and they show it better.

That thing must have amazing armor underneath it. I saw a Lincoln collapse once in a parking lot, the owner tried to drive it home and tore the fuel lines and the oil pan out. There was fluid everywhere all over the driveway. This thing seems to be pretty un-phased with exception to the front air bags.

Too much haggis for Moosechelle

Harsh


very harsh :)

that bmw in front already came close to belly scraping... so my guess, something snagged, and yanked the front end down with a clunk...

I thought he had a KW HLS (Hydraulic Lift System) put on when he took over?

http://www.caranddriver.com/var/ezfl.../red_limo1.jpg

Here's another angle, with clear audio

Listen at 9 secs, then again at 16

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you would think the advance team would have run a test to make sure the limo could drive down the route.

Yet another angle:

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Almost looks like there were steel plates in the ramp that gave away when the front tires hit it? This thing weights a ton, well several tons!

Whatever the reason that is a major, major security foul up and somebody has probably been fired over it.

High-centering the POTUS? Consider the vulnerability. So much of any security playbook depends on having an evasion route present-- no matter how bad it gets I can imagine priority #1 is to GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE. Then the guys up front just casually open the doors? I would have brought in a boatload of cover before I opened up that thing.

Just my humble opinion as a paranoid New Yorker where you constantly have your head on a swivel.

Don't they have two of those beasts? Perhaps POTUS wasn't in the front limo(think shell game). I did notice the front passenger door started to open but then went back shut. Either way, why on earth would the driver get out in any case?

For a vehicle that big someone effed up on the advance team.

There is a steel plate that sticks up and the gate hooks onto, the bottom of the chassis hit the steel.

Major security screw-up.

They need someone who drives a Porsche on that security team, it never would have happened.

It is obvious that they never thought of that-

N!

Notice...as soon as it caught, you saw NO movement from front or rear wheels. I looked carefully at that video, I've always thought that the "Beast" was probably all-wheel drive. Nobody knows WHAT that thing is, or what is under the hood, but you can bet on reactive armor and more than 500 hp. The Secret Service is adamant about keeping details of that car secret- hence the sudden stop when the idiot driver high-sided it!

Notice how thick that door was? Looked like 6" !!!

The SS is supposed to do run through scenarios on this stuff. The Limos aren't local, they are flown in by an advance team who runs the route and looks for vulnerabilities.

Either someone changed the plan or a TEAM screwed the pooch on the advance work. POTUS wasn't in that ride.....

OR...it was deliberate due to an undisclosed issue and he left the building in alternative vehicle.

The Beast was the second car, it turned around and went out another way. The one that got stuck was the old limo.

Dufus just wants a new car! (for Mrs. Dufus)

I don't care what's in the limo....I want to know what's in the van!

The van is just a curtain with wheels.

It's Michelle's KMart sponsored, rolling closet.

They just need to lighten the load by removing a few tons of ego, hubris and arrogance.