Mobil Limo Obama Mogok di Israel karena Salah Isi BBM

Obama`s Limo Break Down in Israel, after the Driver Put Gas

Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Novita Cahyadi


Mobil Limo Obama Mogok di Israel karena Salah Isi BBM
Mobil kepresidenan AS, yang dijuluki The Beast, dikenal sebagai mobil canggih dan anti peluru ternyata mogok karena salah isi BBM (Foto: Mail Online)

PRESIDEN AS Barack Obama melakukan perjalanan pertama ke Israel sebagai presiden. Perjalanan bersejarah Obama ke Israel Rabu pagi, berbalik menjadi memalukan ketika mobil kepresidenan mogok saat menuju bandara.

Mobil Cadillac buatan General Motors terpaksa diderek ke atas truk setelah pengemudinya membuat kesalahan menggunakan bahan bakar bensin, mestinya solar, karena memakai mesin diesel.

Obama tiba di Tel Aviv, Rabu siang waktu setempat, dan pagi harinya mobil limo tersebut disiapkan di hotel untuk menjemput ke bandara tapi sang pengemudi membuat kesalahan yang memalukan.

Media lokal melaporkan, mobil yang diangkut dengan penerbangan khusus dari Washington ternyata mogok sehingga terpaksa memakai mobil cadangan yang sejenis untuk mengantar sang presiden.

Mobil Obama dipotret media lokal 24 Hour News ketika sedang diderek di atas truk.

Sejak mobil tersebut mogok dan diangkut dari bandara, untungnya Obama yang terbiasa meninggalkan bandara di negara tujuan dengan helikopte, tampaknya mengabaikan bahaya dari serangan Palestina ketika melalui rute dari bandara Ben Gurion ke Yerusalem.

Dinas Rahasia Secret Service menyatakan situasi tetap terkendali dan mobil segera diperbaiki.

"Mobil 'lapis baja' presiden mengalami masalah teknis di Israel Rabu pagi, itu sebabnya kami menyediakan beberapa kendaraan pengangkut didukung mekanis dalam perjalanan dinas presiden," kata Edwin Donovan, juru bicara Secret Service seperti dilansir Mail Online.

"Situasi seperti ini direncanakan untuk langkah ekstensif oleh tim advance dan jadwal presiden tidak terganggu."

Mereka tidak mengkonfirmasi apakah pengemudi memakai bensin atau solar, jika itu adalah penyebab kerusakan.

Kunjungan pertama Presiden Obama adalah kediaman Presiden Israel, Shimon Peres, dan setelah penanaman pohon seremonial dan memberikan komentar singkat, langsung berlalu dengan limo lapis baja.

Mengingat pernyataan Secret Service, tampak bahwa Presiden melaju di limo kedua sementara teknisi Amerika bekerja pada hari pertama.

Presiden memulai perjalanan dengan meminta maaf kepada Perdana Menteri Benjamin Netanyahu, karena ia terdengar mengatakan: 'itu memalukan, rombongan kami. Istri saya, Michelle, menggoda saya tanpa ampun'.

Dia tidak bercanda tentang kenyataan bahwa ia bepergian dengan kru: pemerintah Israel mengeluarkan press kit yang melaporkan Presiden didukung rombongan sebanyak 600 orang, dan mereka akan menempati seluruh kamar (233) di Hotel King David selama berada di Israel.

Sebagai perbandingan, Madonna didukung rombongan 200 orang ketika dia tur, yang berarti bahwa Presiden memiliki awak tiga kali lipat dari penyanyi yang dikenal sebagai 'Material Girl'.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama's historic visit to Israel this morning had an embarrassing setback when his armored limo broke down on the way to the airport.

The custom General Motors Cadillac limo was relegated to a pick up truck after the driver accidentally put gas in the engine instead of diesel.

Mr Obama arrived in Tel Aviv Wednesday afternoon local time, and earlier that morning, the limo that was designated to his hotel was unable to move after the driver made the silly mistake.

Local news reports allege that it was the President's limo that was shipped over specially from Washington that broke down so he was forced to use the second vehicle that they brought over from the U.S.

The car was pictured by local station 24 Hour News when it was on the back of a flatbed truck.

Since the car was not able to take him from the airport, thankfully Obama was always scheduled to leave the airport via helicopter in order to avoid passing through the Palestinian checkpoints that interrupt the route from Ben Gurion Airport to Jerusalem.

The United States Secret Service put out a statement about the incident, saying that it was a situation where it pays for them to be prepared.

'One of our protective vehicles experienced mechanical problems in Israel earlier today. This is why we bring multiple vehicles and a mechanic on all trips,' said Edwin Donovan, a spokesman for the Secret Service.

'Situations like this are planned for extensively by our advance teams so that the President's itinerary is unaffected by these types of issues.'

They did not confirm that whether or not the driver used gas or diesel, and if that was the cause of the malfunction.

President Obama's first stop was to Israeli President Shimon Peres' house, and after planting a ceremonial tree and giving brief scripted remarks, he drove off in an armored limo.

Given the Secret Service statement, it appears that the President drove off in the second limo while the American technician worked on the first.

The President started off the trip by apologizing to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he was overheard saying: 'it's embarrassing, our entourage. My wife, Michelle, teases me mercilessly'.

He isn't kidding about the fact that he travels with a crew: the Israeli government issued a press kit that reports the President has a 600-person entourage, and they will occupy all 233 rooms in the King David Hotel during their stay.

By comparison, Madonna has a 200-person entourage when she tours, meaning that the President has a crew three-times the size of the best-known Material Girl.