Re: Incident in DC

In article <f8m8ok$frc$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Keith F.
Lynch) wrote:

I stayed at work late this evening. That was mostly to make up
for the time I spent staring out the window watching the
following:

At about 5:30 p.m. a motorcade went by. Seven motorcycles,
followed by two police cars, followed by several black SUVs
with tinted windows, the last of which had its tailgate open,
followed by two more police cars. It was going at high speed,
with lots of lights and sirens.

This wasn't unusual. There are often as many as a dozen such
motorcades going by my office in DC every day. I promptly
returned to my desk.


During the eighties, I worked right next to the Old Bailey, the main
criminal justice court in the City of London. You got used to high
security prisoners being brought in from wherever they were being held
on remand. For the big IRA trials, the security involved armed police
on the roof tops.

Also during the height of the IRA bombing campaign, major disruption
due to bomb scares became routine. Several times, trains were delayed
because a major London rail station had been evacuated, or a street had
been blocked off because of a suspect car or package. Rarely were
these events reported on the news.
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