No, not that sort of escort.  Get your mind out of the gutter.

 

Tuesday evening as I was leaving work and on the on ramp, a weird thing happened.  A police motorcycle pull out from the next on-ramp right in front of me and held out his hand.  I was like wtf?!?!  He just sat there for like 10 seconds with no indication as to what was going on and then 5 other police motorcycles pulled out from on-ramp he'd come from. They each went to a different lane to block off the road and then a big bus came by followed by a police SUV. 

 

At that point, I was even more confused and curious.  Once the bus was on the road, the police let us move and formed a protective shell around the bus.  Now, this is pretty unusual as it wasn't likely to be any of our executives cause it was a bus (wouldn't they be driving something nicer).  I asked around as I initially thought it might have been the interns as we've been known to show off like that for the interns.

 

It wasn't the interns as they had more busses and did that a few weeks ago.  They also had an escort which brings up the question of how much that cost and what the justification was but whatever.

 

My current guess at this point was that it was the FC Barcelona team that was visiting campus that day.  The timing fits and the fact that it was a single bus fits as well.  BTW, that team is really, really good.  I saw the Sounders game against them in person and a few times I had to count our players to just double check that we actually had a full team on the field (cause it didn't seem that way.