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The popemobile (media.piefed.zip)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by inari@piefed.zip to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world
 
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[–] NullPointerException@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think they updated the car. This was during Easter.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 73 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The guy riding in the back with the shoulder-mounted bazooka might be a bit over-prepared

[–] NullPointerException@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That was a camera, but I like your version better.

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They want you to think it's a camera but it's actually a bazooka.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

The ol' Catholic bazookamera

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Now I demand a Pope Technical! What's the Italian equivalent of a Hilux?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're looking at it. Just like how the guards themselves are Swiss, it makes perfect sense that the technical would be German.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fiat Starda or even better: Piaggio Ape car

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I want one. I will make it go 80 down the 10.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

And look at all those white snipers on the balcony.

[–] sniggleboots@europe.pub 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where else would you mount it, the crotch? Don't be silly!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

maybe i want to be a little silly.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there a bazooka hidden in your crotch or are you happy to see me?

[–] SirIglooi@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of the old clone wars micro series...

[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 37 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Little reminder that the pope got shot in 1981, so they added tall bulletproof glass

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

God works in mysterious ways yada yada

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

TIL, I always thought they were being overprotective.

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

If anyone wonders the motive: it's mental illness.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The most common excuse used for Islamist terrorists.

[–] Gathorall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Believing that some unseen entity demands you act a certain way is obviously severe mental ilness.

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

No, I mean, the person is really insane. I spent too much time reading his Wikipedia article trying to find a motive before realizing his statements are completely incoherent and out there.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Like speaking to an imaginary friend every day, except they’re not your friend they’re your lord and master, and they also speak back to you and you have to obey them or the worst shit imaginable will happen?

Like that, or is it some other kind of mental illness?

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

And the Pope visited him in prison right?