There was one guy who kept telling him (the driver of the flatbed) to crawl out but the driver yelled back that he was pinned in. It was so hot, you couldn't get closer than about 15-feet...The hair on my forehead is singed just from the heat.
Quotes about flatbed (3 Quotes)
At times it is hard to ignore the comparisons between Baghdad (where I was less than a month ago and have spent more of the last two years) and New Orleans The anarchy, the looting, some of it purely for survival, some of it purely opportunistic. We watched a flatbed truck drive by, a man on the back with an M-16 looking up on the roofs for snipers, as is common in Iraq. Private security contractors were stationed outside the Royal St. Charles Hotel when asked if things were getting pretty wild around the area, one of them replied, Nope. It's pretty Green Zone here.'
The music began and he started singing and gyrating, so much that the flatbed and truck were bouncing up off the ground. I had never seen or heard anything like this before in my life.