posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 4:29 AM
by
Endie
George Bush Discovers Albanian Crime Problem First Hand
My father, who, having worked there, is rather fond of Albania and many its people, may not approve of me saying so but Albanians have a reputation in certain quarters for their extremely free-market attitude towards property. By which I mean that some of them have a notoriously relaxed attitude to ownership rights. If a bit of Bulgaria goes missing then they know where to look first: an Albanian will already be trying to sell it to some Germans as spare Lebensraum. But the guts it takes to mug the president of the United States in front of a full security detail of secret service officers is impressive. When I say that this could only happen in Albania, I am semi-serious.
Watch this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKDdF6vfjoo
If you look at it at around the 45-50 second mark, you'll see Bush wearing a dark-strapped watch. If you watch at about 1:03, he is no longer wearing it. And if you look really carefull at about the 57-second point, I think you see the watch deftly removed.
Chancers...
Edit: The comments on that Youtube page, which rapidly developed into Greeks, Serbs and Albanians hurling abuse at each other (mainly centring around each others' taste in sexual partners), are hilarious. It is sweet that English is the universal language that allows such an exchange of brotherly understanding between each group. I was tempted to heal the rift and join them together in universal condemnation by pretending to be a Macedonian.
Second Edit: The response by one of the President's minders is that he took the watch off, himself. I've watched this pretty closely, and the only way this could have happened is if he actually took it off with his left hand (which diappears for just over a second and a half around the 0:58ish point). Of course, since it is on his left wrist, he'd be doing bloody well.