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  • A dashing Brazilian man who keeps a flakjacket in his midtown Manhattan office, two firefighters from New York and Miami, a terrorist attack, and an attempted rescue using nothing but a curtain cord and a ladies handbag.

    Vijaya Ramachandran: Sergio and the Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century 2010

  • He was wearing a black flakjacket with a blue shirt on underneath and cargo pants below.

    Down the Road Bowie Ibarra 2009

  • He was wearing a black flakjacket with a blue shirt on underneath and cargo pants below.

    Down the Road Bowie Ibarra 2009

  • "Jamie and I were kitted out in fake utility belts, we had the whole bulletproof flakjacket thing, we've got hairdriers in our belt, a kids '£1.99 walkie-talkie, hairbrushes and all that kind of stuff, and we were being followed by a camera crew and a boom mike and we get literally pulled over by four policemen and we were issued with a warning under the Act of terrorism'."

    Evening Standard - Home 2010

  • "Jamie and I were kitted out in fake utility belts, we had the whole bulletproof flakjacket thing, we've got hairdryers in our belt, a kids '£1.99 walkie-talkie, hairbrushes and all that kind of stuff, and we were being followed by a camera crew and a boom mike and we get literally pulled over by four policemen and we were issued with a warning' under the act of terrorism '."

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • "Jamie and I were kitted out in fake utility belts, we had the whole bulletproof flakjacket thing, we've got hairdryers in our belt, a kids '£1.99 walkie-talkie, hairbrushes and all that kind of stuff, and we were being followed by a camera crew and a boom mike and we get literally pulled over by four policemen and we were issued with a warning' under the act of terrorism '."

    Your Local Guardian | Wimbledon 2010

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