black jeeps in moscow

one night, i was driving home with my friend. actually, she was the one driving ('cos i am shitscared of driving in moscow city traffic...). just when we were pulling into the little side street next to my house, a fancy big expensive dark car with darkened windows shoots directly in front of us.

now that's nothing of the extraordinary here. but then, all of a sudden, this big massive guy dressed all in black comes onto the street and stands right in front of our car, signaling to us to stop the car and not to move any further.

and all of a sudden a big black jeep with darkened windows pulls in from behind us, out of the nowhere, going right after the other fancy car.

it was the security escort of probably some rich new russian...
(there went my chance of meeting a russian millionaire)

and we cut off the way for the security escort... oh dear... when we realised that, we were just waiting for the guys to pull out their big guns at us...
(which didn't happen but would not have been surprising)

the morale of the story: when you see a fancy expensive car with a black jeep right behind it, NEVER, under NO circumstances, try to get in between these two cars!