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Reports of explosion, shots fired near Champs Elysee, Paris

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 2:36 pm
by USN_Hokie

Re: Reports of explosion, shots fired near Champs Elysee, Pa

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:19 pm
by Mcl3 Hokie
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.

Re: Reports of explosion, shots fired near Champs Elysee, Pa

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:24 pm
by USN_Hokie
Sounds like an armed person in a vehicle rammed a police van and was taken out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/40332532

Re: Reports of explosion, shots fired near Champs Elysee, Pa

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:25 pm
by RiverguyVT
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

Re: Reports of explosion, shots fired near Champs Elysee, Pa

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:27 pm
by Mcl3 Hokie
It truly is amazing how this city has changed for the worse over the last 4 years.
RiverguyVT wrote:
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

Re: Reports of explosion, shots fired near Champs Elysee, Pa

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:36 pm
by RiverguyVT
Mcl3 Hokie wrote:It truly is amazing how this city has changed for the worse over the last 4 years.
RiverguyVT wrote:
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

Re: Reports of explosion, shots fired near Champs Elysee, Pa

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 3:54 pm
by Major Kong
I've been to Paris and London, KY many times. :D

Re: Reports of explosion, shots fired near Champs Elysee, Pa

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 4:08 pm
by USN_Hokie

Re: Reports of explosion, shots fired near Champs Elysee, Pa

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 4:12 pm
by HokieHam
USN_Hokie wrote:
Well, we know it's not the religion of peace! Can't be. They're so damn peaceful.

But if it is, we must learn to live with it by God! The multiculturalist liberals say so......

Re: Reports of explosion, shots fired near Champs Elysee, Pa

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 5:06 am
by ip_law-hokie
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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Re: Reports of explosion, shots fired near Champs Elysee, Pa

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 2:20 pm
by Major Kong
ip_law-hokie wrote:You ever make it to Versailles? They make great Bourbon there. (Woodford Reserve)


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Certainly :!: :mrgreen:

Re: Reports of explosion, shots fired near Champs Elysee, Pa

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 2:32 pm
by ip_law-hokie
Major Kong wrote:
ip_law-hokie wrote:You ever make it to Versailles? They make great Bourbon there. (Woodford Reserve)


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Certainly :!: :mrgreen:
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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