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I'm in Paris about 3/4 of a mile from the Champs attending the Paris Airshow. Security is tight and it's 92 F here today. Haven't heard anything about this yet.

I made sure we arranged private shuttles for our employees to and from LeBourget. If you take the metro, you go right through a rough neighborhood. At the end, you stand in a queue to get on a bus to go the last mile to the airfield. I didn't want anyone standing out waiting for the bus with 400 other people. To inviting of a target for lunatics.
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Sounds like an armed person in a vehicle rammed a police van and was taken out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/40332532
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Mcl3 Hokie wrote:I'm in Paris about 3/4 of a mile from the Champs attending the Paris Airshow. Security is tight and it's 92 F here today. Haven't heard anything about this yet.

I made sure we arranged private shuttles for our employees to and from LeBourget. If you take the metro, you go right through a rough neighborhood. At the end, you stand in a queue to get on a bus to go the last mile to the airfield. I didn't want anyone standing out waiting for the bus with 400 other people. To inviting of a target for lunatics.
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It truly is amazing how this city has changed for the worse over the last 4 years.
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Mcl3 Hokie wrote:I'm in Paris about 3/4 of a mile from the Champs attending the Paris Airshow. Security is tight and it's 92 F here today. Haven't heard anything about this yet.

I made sure we arranged private shuttles for our employees to and from LeBourget. If you take the metro, you go right through a rough neighborhood. At the end, you stand in a queue to get on a bus to go the last mile to the airfield. I didn't want anyone standing out waiting for the bus with 400 other people. To inviting of a target for lunatics.
Good luck & be safe there in Al Paristan, Francanistan
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Mcl3 Hokie wrote:It truly is amazing how this city has changed for the worse over the last 4 years.
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Mcl3 Hokie wrote:I'm in Paris about 3/4 of a mile from the Champs attending the Paris Airshow. Security is tight and it's 92 F here today. Haven't heard anything about this yet.

I made sure we arranged private shuttles for our employees to and from LeBourget. If you take the metro, you go right through a rough neighborhood. At the end, you stand in a queue to get on a bus to go the last mile to the airfield. I didn't want anyone standing out waiting for the bus with 400 other people. To inviting of a target for lunatics.
Good luck & be safe there in Al Paristan, Francanistan
I had a Paresian neighbor who immigrated to the US (legally) due to that
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I've been to Paris and London, KY many times. :D
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Major Kong wrote:I've been to Paris and London, KY many times. :D
You ever make it to Versailles? They make great Bourbon there. (Woodford Reserve)


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ip_law-hokie wrote:You ever make it to Versailles? They make great Bourbon there. (Woodford Reserve)


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Major Kong wrote:
ip_law-hokie wrote:You ever make it to Versailles? They make great Bourbon there. (Woodford Reserve)


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It quickly became apparent to us that we were mispronouncing the name of the town.

WR is one of the better distillery tours. And I do like their Bourbon.


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