Few things are funnier to watch than the security detail of a small-town mayor trying to behave like the US Secret Service. They play dress-up in dark suits and sunglasses and strut about with earphones in place, pretending to receive hot intel.

Their principal is usually an ordinary citizen suddenly foisted into the high life, now driven around in a top-of-the-range SUV with tinted windows...

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