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american president kidnapped (Not really. Don't freak out or anything.)

  • 05-05-2013 10:53pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,050 ✭✭✭✭


    What do you think would happen if the American president was kidnapped.

    I could see the u.s army going to no length to find them, a lot people would be killed in trying to find them


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,330 ✭✭✭niallon


    Somebody would post in AH asking what we think would happen?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,205 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    It would be the number 3 item on RTE news, just behind "the countries Catholic Bishops have threatened to hold extra long sermons at mass this weekend" and "The cost of silage has soared in recent weeks following heavy rain in the West of the country".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭IceFjoem


    I'd imagine Stephen Segal would have to come out of retirement anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,535 ✭✭✭Dave0301




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,404 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    I don't believe they'd miss him for months.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,136 ✭✭✭✭Rayne Wooney


    Ah I see what you did there with your misleading title.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Thread disappoint


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    I'd ask John Cena to go find him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    cena wrote: »
    What do you think would happen if the American president was kidnapped.

    I could see the u.s army going to no length to find them, a lot people would be killed in trying to find them

    Boards server goes into slow down, as the hamster is shot by FBI and secret service snipers, in an investigation into a plot to kidnap the president, triggered by a discussion on an internet forum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    Dave0301 wrote: »

    Great film.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,050 ✭✭✭✭cena


    I'd ask John Cena to go find him.

    he would be no good for that job


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    cena wrote: »
    he would be no good for that job

    He could bring St.Slaughter with him then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,050 ✭✭✭✭cena


    He could bring St.Slaughter with him then.

    ok that well do


  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭Triangular


    There is such a tight grip on him that if it ever were to happen it could only be done with insider help. A bit like every other american terror situation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    They better not ring Liam Neeson...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,340 ✭✭✭PropJoe10


    It'd be no problem. They'd send for Jack Bauer and he'd be returned safe and sound within 24 hours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    cena wrote: »
    What do you think would happen if the American president was kidnapped.
    The lizard people who put him there would be pi$$ed off!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    cena wrote: »
    What do you think would happen if the American president was kidnapped.

    I could see the u.s army going to no length to find them, a lot people would be killed in trying to find them

    I'm pretty sure they'd go to great lengths to find them.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    I have changed the thead title to allay all our fears.


    Though tbh if you're learning your latest news from AH that's something you'd want to look into.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭foxinsox


    A new Will Smith movie?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,508 ✭✭✭✭Mr.Crinklewood


    We would not be told.

    He would be sick in hospital for a while, after that one of his four lookalikes would be shown to the world.

    If they could still not find him it would be announced that he had been living with a terminal disease and had not long to live.

    We would all think that he was great struggling through this disease, trying to save the world.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Cody Pomeray


    hmmm wrote: »
    It would be the number 3 item on RTE news, just behind "the countries Catholic Bishops have threatened to hold extra long sermons at mass this weekend" and "The cost of silage has soared in recent weeks following heavy rain in the West of the country".
    The fodder crisis has far greater relevance to Irish people's lives than the any American President kidnapping.

    Not an attack on you personally, but I love how major crises like this are dismissed as typical culchie problems or as symbolic of a backwards rural economy.

    This is having an enormous effect on people's lives in rural Ireland. There are farmers under so much stress they cannot even go outside their homes to hear starving cattle roaring. It's horrific.

    The knock on effect for urban dwellers is food prices and the cost to the exchequer.

    It's a serious problem.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,050 ✭✭✭✭cena


    I have changed the thead title to allay all our fears.


    Though tbh if you're learning your latest news from AH that's something you'd want to look into.

    Ah why. But that is ok


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Play an old game from the late 80's / 90's since 80% of them involved the president or his daughter being kidnapped.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    The FBI at the op's house via a no knock raid.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    The CIA are now monitoring this thread.

    We're live on CNN now. Fame at last.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    I think they would look for him, searching the back of the sofa's first.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭bacon n eggs


    No contest ...contact Frank Drebin


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 461 ✭✭MadMardegan


    Somebody just watched "Olympus has fallen"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,494 ✭✭✭✭Victor




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,050 ✭✭✭✭cena


    Somebody just watched "Olympus has fallen"

    that was last weekend


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    We would not be told.

    He would be sick in hospital for a while, after that one of his four lookalikes would be shown to the world.

    If they could still not find him it would be announced that he had been living with a terminal disease and had not long to live.

    We would all think that he was great struggling through this disease, trying to save the world.
    Somebody just watched "Olympus has fallen"


    Or 'Dave'. No wait, he actually was sick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Gerard Butler would rescue his annoying kid and then Morgan Freeman would something something north korea


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,104 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    cena wrote: »
    What do you think would happen if the American president was kidnapped.
    The internet would break down

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Silent Scope players around the world would be waiting for the call to swing into action...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭juice1304


    IceFjoem wrote: »
    I'd imagine Stephen Segal would have to come out of retirement anyway.

    He works as a law enforcement officer now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    cena wrote: »
    What do you think would happen if the American president was kidnapped.

    They'd have 96 hours to find him before he would be sold into the international sex trade.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15 TheLB


    c_man wrote: »
    They'd have 96 hours to find him before he would be sold into the international sex trade.

    I'm going to find you and I will kill you.


  • Registered Users Posts: 30 DrArse


    Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror... Episode 1.

    The princess of England is kidnapped and a ransom note in the form of a video posted on youtube calls for a public broadcast of the prime minister having sex with a pig live on camera. Cue immediate panic from the prime minister and his cabinet, and excitement from the general public as they gather to watch the live broadcast... I won't ruin the rest... but well worth the watch.

    Interesting from the point of view that the social media now poses added risks and has the potential to be used for terrorism by anyone anywhere like never before..


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 699 ✭✭✭mikehammer67


    cena wrote: »
    What do you think would happen if the American president was kidnapped.

    I could see the u.s army going to no length to find them, a lot people would be killed in trying to find them

    him


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Ruudi_Mentari


    Ohhh man I rlly bought that one there for a minute.

    tbh, cena I care about how your fingers are healing... I think I'd trade Barack for that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭Schnitzel Muncher


    Was it tha North Koreans again? Someone been watching 'Olympus has Fallen' or 'Vantage Point' or 'Air Force One' or GI Joe?

    I say Nuke North Korea off the face of the planet, just on the off chance that they are even considering kidnapping POTUS. Better safe that sorry.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 699 ✭✭✭mikehammer67


    cena wrote: »
    What do you think would happen if the American president was kidnapped.

    I could see the u.s army going to no length to find them, a lot people would be killed in trying to find them

    he's black

    so that rules out a night-time rescue

    it could be very messy


  • Registered Users Posts: 349 ✭✭Schnitzel Muncher


    he's black

    so that rules out a night-time rescue

    it could be very messy

    But he has nice white teeth, so should be alright.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 698 ✭✭✭belcampprisoner


    they would make a movie,and a musical


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Biden would become the Acting President.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    hmmm wrote: »
    It would be the number 3 item on RTE news, just behind "the countries Catholic Bishops have threatened to hold extra long sermons at mass this weekend" and "The cost of silage has soared in recent weeks following heavy rain in the West of the country".
    But first, today in Northern Ireland ...


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    cena wrote: »
    american president kidnapped (Not really. Don't freak out or anything.)
    Why would anyone freak ?

    Especially over here ?


    That's the whole point of having a vice president so that no one freaks out :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky




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