Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Obama's in town




Sunday night, walking home along Lexington Ave. when I come to the Waldorf Astoria and notice the street is completely blocked off from traffic (though they let us pedestrians walk on the opposite side of the street) and there are lines and lines of black suburbans and police cars and a big, black limo parked right outside the hotel door - waiting. They even brought in concrete barricades in front of the hotel leaving just enough space for a person to get to the back door of the limo. I stopped and watched, waiting, until one particular SUV with 4 guys in it pulls out into the middle of the street, jump out (leaving their doors open) and spread out looking in 4 directions - I mean these guys are in full camo, goggles, headsets and big, long GUNS - while a big group of people exit the building, all at the same time and several people get in the limo. These 4 guys immediately jump back into their SUV and 8 vehicles zip out into the street and race away. It took like 5 seconds - COOL! Obama was at the NBC station here in NYC the next morning on TV...

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