I saw something weird while driving through Albuquerque

[tboo]

Im driving down the interstate through Albuquerque & a really weird van drives by me. it was a completely blacked out full size Ford van(all back paint, no chrome, & all of the windows tinted black). It was jacked up in the air like it had 4wd(not sure if this was a modification or if Ford makes 4wd vans). It had a HUGE brush bar on the front(almost like a battering ram) & it had some sort of box shape unit on the top of the van(perhaps a second AC unit?). It also seemed to have a mean sounding exhaust note. The part that threw me was that it had government plates. It doesnt seem like your typical gov. vehicle. It looked like a prop for a MIB movie.

 

[Crusty]

Mexican patrol?

 

[JohnCU]

did it have free candy written on the side?

 

[bobross419]

Mark Foley's border running kiddy cartel?

 

[destrekor]

Well, if it had tinted windows, then it is likely some government service doesn't want you to know the van's purpose.
They have a whole variety of vehicles for strange purposes. Likely something to the tune of Secret Service/FBI. I imagine a van just so they can cram more people/equipment into it as compared to the typical large SUV.

edit:
Crusty made a good point. Possibly something border-patrol related.
Brush-guard/ram, 4WD, and heavy duty engine, sound like something for mass transport desert-style.

 

[BabaBooey]

Alien transportation.

 

[Genx87]

Sorry that was me. Moving the alien's to a secure govt facility in the region.

 

[BoomerD]

Well, at least you didn't notice the squadron of black helicopters that were accompanying/guarding it. Teh wurld is still sayfe...

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Pics?

 

[queenrobot]

It probably came from the secret underground military base located in New Mexico. :shocked:

 

[MaxDepth]

You took a left turn, didn't you.

 

[Slacker]

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[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Slacker
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:shocked:

 

[sdifox]

A-Team had to trade in their ageing GMC.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Sounds like border patrol. They tend to try to compensate for their size by buying the most ridiculous vehicles.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth
You took a left turn, didn't you.

I was headed to Palm Springs! Honest!

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth
You took a left turn, didn't you.

that's old skool, yo.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: sdifox
A-Team had to trade in their ageing GMC.

so this would be Mr. T's new van?

 

[tboo]

Originally posted by: Slacker
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Damn! Thats it!!!!

 

[hiromizu]

Damn I thought you were going to say you saw a Chupacabra. Those things are freaky. My cousins in Puerto Rico has seen them.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: sdifox
A-Team had to trade in their ageing GMC.

so this would be Mr. T's new van?

They got a good deal from GMAC

 

[engineereeyore]

There's an Air Force base and a National Lab in Albuquerque, both of which use government vehicles and drive off-road. I'd say chances are it belongs to one of them.

 

[tboo]

I dont think its border patrol. I live south of Tucson & Ive never seen anything like that van. Every road vehicle Ive seen is a standard 4x4 thats painted green & white. The plates also have DHS on them(that wasnt on the government plates on the van). Maybe its an ultra double secret BP division!?!?!

 

[SlickSnake]

The contraption on the top is not an air conditioner. It either houses some kind of weird detector or some communications antenna contraption. You should have followed it a while until you had a chance to pull up next to it and ask for directions to the nearest secret alien flying saucer base.

 

[Kalmah]

It was definatly the government.. they are going to crash it into your house and blame it on terrorists.