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    How often do you see this?

    @ 11:05 Eastern this morning I was traveling westbound on I-64 near exit 181 (Richmond) and noticed a fair amount of 'official commotion' in the eastbound lanes. What I witnessed next was rather curious...marked and unmarked State and Federal cars were positioning themselves and blocking all traffic entering the Interstate so I assumed some dignitary motorcade would be passing by any moment.

    Wrong! Coming up next was another group of Public safety cars surrounding and leap-frogging a convoy of 4 brand new Coca-Cola tractor trailers. There were also SWAT looking guys on Enduro type off-road motorcycles positioning themselves around strategic locations.

    All of this was moving in a group down the interstate @ about 65mph. No one, and I mean no one, I saw was getting within a quarter of a mile of these cola trucks except its ridiculously large and curious escort.

    That was f*cking spooky weird. I'm serious.
    Wonder what's up?
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    Last edited by ki4itv; 09-17-2011 at 12:11 PM.

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    poisoned coke getting sent out.
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    If it's a war on drugs, then free the POW's.

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    That's downright freaqy...would send shivers up and down my spine if I saw it. Maybe terrorist threats to the Coca-Cola company? Gotta keep the Coke flowing, I guess.

    Or maybe somebody thought that a convoy of Coca-Cola trucks would be inconspicuous cover? Especially with all those escorts? Off for some google-fu about this.
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    My money is on them filming a commercial. We see that sort of thing quite a bit around here because San Diego is close enough to L.A. to be convenient but the traffic is lighter and it's cheaper to film here.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    My money is on them filming a commercial. We see that sort of thing quite a bit around here because San Diego is close enough to L.A. to be convenient but the traffic is lighter and it's cheaper to film here.
    See any camera trucks?
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    No camera trucks.
    Lots of resources being spent.
    It was very, very weird.

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    blame terrorist. we all must live in fear
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    Pepsicorp has been making threats...
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    Kind of reminds me of the time I was driving my big rig on I-94 in North Dakota and encountered a military convoy literally several miles long, traveling at about 50 MPH. There were dozens of olive drab Suburbans, canvas-covered transport trucks loaded with troops and Humvees with the M-60 machine guns mounted—something you don't see on public highways here very often. In the very center was one unmarked 18-wheeler pulling a very odd trailer. It was relatively short (less than 40') and appeared to open by pulling apart diagonally from the center. My guess was that they were transporting nuclear missile warheads or some other similarly dangerous material that they absolutely did not want to fall into the wrong hands.
    Last edited by NQ6U; 09-17-2011 at 01:03 PM.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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