Posted on 10/18/2011 5:51:00 PM PDT by Is2C
HENRICO, VA (WWBT) – NBC12 has uncovered one of those stories that makes you think: "How in the world does that happen?!" A truck filled with President Obama's podiums and audio equipment was stolen in Henrico just days before his visit to Chesterfield.
We confirmed an investigation with the U.S. Defense Department. There are still a lot of questions. The biggest one being did the thieves intentionally target the President's truck or did they take advantage of a crime of opportunity and give a big "uh-oh" when they saw what was inside.
When you see President Obama speak, there is a pretty typical setup including the presidential seal on a podium, the see-thru Teleprompter and a portable sound system.
Thieves saw the truck carrying that equipment and couldn't resist the target.
We're told the truck was parked at the Virginia Center Commons Courtyard Marriott in advance on Wednesday's presidential visit to Chesterfield.
Sources said inside that vehicle was about $200,000 worth of sound equipment, several podiums and presidential seals, behind which only the President himself can stand.
They told NBC12 around 12:30 Monday afternoon that truck was recovered in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn Express near the airport and hotel staff confirm police activity. One guest we spoke with said he saw various law enforcement agencies examining a white box truck parked there.
According to him, the entire back parking lot was blocked off as Henrico Police along with "lots of guys in suits" investigated. He said the truck had no markings and no indication anything special was inside. That leads to another big question of whether or not any of that was actually stolen.
Late Monday evening we found a truck with US government tags still parked in the Marriott's lot. We are waiting to find out if that is the original truck returned to the staff or a second vehicle.
We were able to get this statement from a Defense Information Systems Agency spokesperson: "No classified or sensitive information was in the vehicle. We take incidents such as this very seriously and a formal investigation is continuing."
We are waiting to find out if surveillance cameras on the building captured the crooks on tape.
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I kinda figured the Big Mo would keep Bammy’s “equipment” in her purse.
TOTUS kidnapped!
TOTUS has been totusnapped?
Did Plugs try to invoke the 25th Amendment since Zero can’t be Prez without his teleprompter?
Teleprompters stolen ... Obama left speechless.
Correction. Obama PR team has truck stolen.
Hmmmm... Imagine scoring that and displaying it in your local VFW post!
This will mean the end of Obama’s sex life, without that teleprompter he won’t know where to start.
I hope some genius figures out how to rig the teleprompters so he’s saying stuff that make no sense....such as “I’m Ron Burgandy”. And they’re smart enough that the white house electronics people don’t figure it out.
Oh boy...no presidential hot air and blathering for the next week until they can rebuild TOTUS from some spare parts. Hallelujah, Praise the Lord!
Too bad Obama can easily get more teleprompters, otherwise this theft would mean he would soon be impeached, no way can he survive without one.
President’s equipment? WHAT is Moochelle gonna say tonight?
Nobody and nothing gets close to the POTUS without being vetted, probed, and prodded.
But the podium gets close to 0. The 'prompters and microphones all get very close to him. And somebody got to them.
They didn’t “steal” Obama’s stuff, they “redistributed” it. To themselves. You know, spreading the wealth around is a good thing.
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