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This shouldn’t even be possible
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They have one of these in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. I was there last summer and it's even more stunning in person. Nobody has been able to replicate his technique.
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Family dog eats $4,000 in cash off the kitchen counter
Once the deed was done, Cecil went to take a nap, and the Laws called the vet to make sure their dog would be OK. Fortunately, the doctor said all would be well and to wait and see if devoured dough would reappear. (The dog left a shredded $1,500 on the floor but ate the remaining $2,500.) And Cecil did start to return to money, albeit in an unpleasant way, via vomit and extra potty trips.
Bank officials told the Laws if they could salvage any of the money, including the serial numbers on the bills, they could exchange it for new money. The couple washed and taped every bill they could find and recovered all but $500 of the original amount.
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It's a shame no one is carrying around some sort of device that could take photos these days. If only someone had some way of taking a picture of these giant aliens/zombies.
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Why are the helicopters always black?
I mean, if you wanted to camouflage it, wouldn't you paint it a lighter color? Or make it look like a tourist chopper or a news/traffic/weather chopper? If you paint the thing all black, you're going to get the MOST attention and suspicion, no?
Paint it like the helicopter from Magnum PI or from Riptide.
Ominous "Black Helicopter"
Versus friendly helicopter like this
or this
Alex.
I mean, if you wanted to camouflage it, wouldn't you paint it a lighter color? Or make it look like a tourist chopper or a news/traffic/weather chopper? If you paint the thing all black, you're going to get the MOST attention and suspicion, no?
Paint it like the helicopter from Magnum PI or from Riptide.
Ominous "Black Helicopter"
Versus friendly helicopter like this
or this
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You don't need camouflage when you have fear working in your favor. There's a reason all those Suburbans in the presidential motorcade are black. It means FAFO.
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Why isn't Airforce One and Marine One also painted black?
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Jackie Kennedy.
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They aren’t covert. They aren’t trying to avoid unwanted attention. They’re all black to make identification of individual vehicles difficult.
The “Beast” is the President’s limo but I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he’s actually in one of the anonymous suburbans some of the time and the Beast is a decoy in case some idiot with an RPG gets an idea. If there’s one Beast and 24 identical suburbans, where is the President safer?
Secret Service agents are the same way. The dudes in suits with shades and earpieces are the ones you’re supposed to see. There are others that are undercover.
Anyway. If the idea is to be covert, unmarked black helicopters make zero sense. If the idea is to protect a high value target, then a couple dozen identical unmarked black choppers make sense.
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In addition there’s also a group called CAT, which stands for Counter Assault Team. As the name implies, while the suited guys are whisking away the protectee, CAT attacks the threat. The USSS snipers you might see or hear about are part of CAT.
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