Carro presidente Obama encalha em lombada EUA
US President Barack Obama's armored Cadillac, nicknamed The Beast, got stuck on a ramp at the US embassy in Dublin, the public broadcaster reported yesterday.

US President Barack Obama's armoured Cadillac, nicknamed The Beast, got stuck on a ramp at the US embassy in Dublin, the public broadcaster reported yesterday.

The first cars in the presidential motorcade drove up the ramp from the car park under the complex in Ballsbridge, but The Beast quickly ran into trouble.

"The Beast was coming along and suddenly there was a loud kind of bang, metal-on-metal grinding, crunching noise and the car was stuck," an RTE reporter said.

The reporter said the car seemed to have got its low underbelly caught on a metal gate catch.

Obama and wife Michelle stayed in the car while security officials and police officers ran to the car.

Then the Obamas switched to another car to drive to the Marine Force One helicopter waiting to whisk them to the village of Moneygall, home of one of Obama's great-great-great-grandfathers.

The 24-hour stop in Ireland was the first step in Obama's week-long tour of Europe, which takes in Britain, the G8 summit in France and Poland

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