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Police and Military Escorts
On a school trip to Moscow in the late 80s we had a bus/coach that took us to West Berlin - we were given a military escort from a few miles outside West Berlin (no reason was given!)

After a long night out boozing in Oxford I got on the last bus back to Bicester that evening and decided against going upstairs as it sounded like a WWE/UFC event. The police came on-board just before the bus departed and removed a couple of people. We got out onto George Street and I noticed a police car with blues and twos in front of us and as we turned into Magdalen Street noticed two behind us as well. They kept with us all the way to Bicester (a 12 mile journey or so) and then proceeded to arrest some more people as they got off.

Have been on a bus in Brussels that was given a police escort because they needed to get it off the road to let the King's entourage past - amazing coincidence was the next weekend I'd picked someone up from the airport in a car and on entering a tunnel coming into Brussels picked up a 4 motorcycle posse of policemen who had guns and instructed me to floor it (doing 150mph through tunnels is interesting!!!) and as I got out of the tunnel and pulled over the bloody King came past again.
(Thu 25th Jun 2009, 14:24, More)