Six policemen on foot and one on a motorbike sent to clear the way for the president
A message from a friend down at the Ferries in Sliema:
“At Giorgio with friends trying to ignore the swarming hams, when we saw police – first two and then four and then six of them. Then suddenly a really loud siren.
Everyone at Giorgio stood up. ‘Tghid xi sparatura?’ ‘Tghid kissru xi mera?’ A police officer on a motorbike with a wailing siren gets into an argument with a car-driver, to get him to move out of the way in an already frustrating traffic perception in which nothing is moving.
And then it arrives. No, not Michelle Muscat on her way to a shopping trip at ‘Il-Ferries’ but the vehicle with the flag. President Merilweez shoots past the crowds.
Then in all the chaos and the stalled perception, a car engine fails and everybody begins honking like mad. The policemen who were sent to clear the way for Her Majesty the head of state end up pushing that car out of the way.”
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Hilarious!
I cannot believe this comedy of errors. If they appeared in the media on April First I would have been convinced they were April Fool jokes.
The parkers are up in arms at the competition.
That one looks like he needs to push cars on a more regular basis.
I’ll do my part in helping your blog.
You should start these sort of blogs with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jTHNBKjMBU
Just say thanks.
Homing pigeon instinct.
Offended, were you?
Next time I see something like this I will stop my car and pretend it’s stalled. Let’s just let the president experience the perception.
And yes, the area at the Ferries gets gridlocked from now till Christmas. No problem, Joe Gasan will also get his iced bun with a 30-storey tower in a Town Square.
Wrong Freedom5. It’s 34 floors plus mucho mucho shops.
Phone call no.6 between Sheehan and Zammit.
Sheehan had already spoken to the minister at 9.15 pm.
The commissioner gives instructions to load the car before contacting Alexandra Mamo.
Enough said.
Muscat comes across as one who didn’t feel he could trust anyone for the correct version of events.
It’s what happens when you’re not really on the job.
“Dan haqqu citazzjoni, Gamri, x’wiehed reddalna.”
“Ijwa, hej. Itfahhielu fuq il-linji s-sofor ha ncapcpulu ticket.”
Sew. L-ewwel waiters u issa parkers. L-ebda disrispett lejn min jaghmel dan ix-xoghol. It-tnejn xoghol onorevoli.
The president has a constitutional role and no practical purpose. To have such a chav as president is truly reminiscent of Agatha Barbara.
And to think that Gonzi was so naive as to think that a PL government would follow in his footsteps, by handing out the proverbial olive branch and nominating someone from the Opposition, perhaps even himself, goes to show how much he underestimated his political adversaries at each and every single level, even those that really do not matter to anyone.
Ajma madonna, qtajt nifsi nidhaq.
Kemm jiflah jaqa ghan-n–k il-korp tal-puluzija?
Nahseb li dak Ciangura qala’ transfer daqs kemm hu njurant.
Dak poggieh hemm Mallia ghax injurant inqas minnhu.
This is better than a good comedy on TV.
You are right. Things are a bit flat until Christmas TV kicks in. Fills the gap wonderfully. The new Woody Allen bluray was a tad boring.
Looks like some much needed exercise for the policeman on the left.
This “Malta Taghna Lkoll” skip era is tragicomic. A cross between Nero Wolfe and Benny Hill. My God, how can this go on?
Our police farce (jacks of all trades).
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-12-08/local-news/Sixth-recording-Sheehan-told-Commissioner-both-cars-were-hit-identified-driver-as-being-Maltese-6736127013
The thing is: she’s the joke, the rest are just doing what they’ve been assigned to do, ridiculous as it is.
The joke is who put her there! We are reaping the results of all the pawn strategies: get that one of the way, place this one there to shut her up, put that one there because I promised him so before the election, put the other one there to spite this one, etc.
Exactly.
Yes, she’s one hell of a joke. Only a few weeks ago – while launching some charity campaign at Mac Donald’s in Gharghur – she approached a group of male office workers (there on their lunch break) with the Wonderbra slogan “Hello boys!”. And no, she did not know any of them (apart from the fact that they have not been boys for decades).
That’s not all. Following her pompous-for-nothing entry into Sliema as vividly described in the main post (I was there too at the time), her also pompous-for-nothing exit from Sliema was through a one-way busy street.
She, well her driver, drove wrong way down the one-way Censu Xerri Street.
As the Presidential car exited to Tigne seafront, she even waved to us passers-by who stared in bewilderment at this mega traffic infringement taking place in front of a traffic policeman. All for national security reasons I suppose. Viva ir-Repubblika.
Ciangura’s other name is Garmin GPS.
When I saw the Police Commissioner’s son in Gozo last summer, a policeman who heads the Economic Crimes Unit, drive away in his red flashy bigtime car with his vulgar flashy girlfriend in tow, I wondered how a young man on a police salary could afford a car like that.
Then I was told he heads Economic Crime Unit. The irony is almost too beautiful to ignore. The crassness, the boldness, the lack of decorum.
Four degrees later and a couple of years older than he is, I still drive my Citroen C1 and save up for loan repayments.
Silly me, I could have entered the police corps with two O levels, no sense of geography and barely able to string a sentence together, and I’d be much richer, more attractive to pole dancers and have far more power. And a big, red car.
http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.608006926702149685&pid=15.1&P=0
Just passed through St. George’s Square in Valletta. It looks like they’re dismantling those four big screens at last to take them away.
Keep us posted. Interesting development.
Yes, they’re gone. There’s a mini crane there now removing the concrete block they were perched on.
Lou Bondi was on Net TV (in a black leather jacket) this afternoon saying he is preparing for the Republic Day celebrations.
Groan. More Mintoff-worship.
Police sirens heard from as far as Gzira and Manoel Island. People thought a fire or bad accident had just happened.
Shame on you, Coleiro and Co. How arrogant can you be?
All you need in this country is a laugh track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSeXojvzLpc&list=PL43BC481C0D1458AE
She must have been in a great big hurry to say the rosary with Edgar.
Poor guy.
The Benny Hill show, but seriously.
The thin blue line will soon snap if it keeps on being burdened with all this extra work, catering, boat trips for foreign police officers, guarding billboards at university and now pushing cars to the nearest mechanic.
Believe me, I heard the sirens from as far as Ta’ Xbiex.