The popemobile is also bullet proof, to… erm… supplement the power of prayer.
I’d say the undignified part is sitting atop a family car in a custom made box that simultaneously looks like he’s being exhibited to an alien species and he’s about to get gunged by Dave Benson Phillips.
On June 6, 2007, a German man tried to jump into Benedict XVI’s uncovered popemobile as the pontiff began his general audience. The pope was not hurt and did not even appear to notice that the man had jumped over the protective barrier in the square and had grabbed onto the white Fiat popemobile as it passed. At least eight security officers were trailing the vehicle as it moved slowly through the square. They subsequently grabbed the man and wrestled him to the ground, before he was interrogated by Vatican police.
