Obama surname gets man out of speeding ticket!!!1!1!!

[BuyingThyme]

Obama surname gets man out of speeding ticket


By Alex Spillius in Washington
Last Updated: 10:25PM GMT 30 Nov 2008

These are good times to be called Obama, as Nicanor Obama discovered recently when he was stopped for speeding in downtown Washington and let off because of his surname.

The police officer looked at his driving licence and smiled: "Well, I'm going to let you go because you have the Obama name."

Since the Nov 4 election, the 28-year-old political science student at the University of the District of Columbia has also been waved into a Washington nightclub for nothing and been treated like a celebrity during a hospital visit to his cousin Josephina.

"They said, 'Obama?' Is she one of the Obamas? Are they here?'" Nicanor told the Washington Post. "They treated us like celebrities."

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/3537065/Obama-surname-gets-man-out-of-speeding-ticket.html

[BlooInBloo]

1. Heh. That was pretty funny. May all such "you're an Obama" encounters go that way.

[BuyingThyme]

2. He's already corrupted Washington.

We're all doomed.