The crews put up miles of reflector-striped barrels, and then station traffic guards, performing on a vampire's schedule.
"The security guards performed exceptionally well and exactly as they were supposed to," Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty told reporters.
He and Toney Douglas, both smaller guards, performed well in a tandem, and D'Antoni said he would not hesitate inserting them at the same time during the season.
Guards perform an annual search of the Parliament building to check for potential arsonists, although it is more ceremonial than serious.
Mr. Stempler of the Air Travelers Association said he had seen security guards performing checks that ranged from thorough to cursory within a few feet of each other on Wednesday at Dulles Airport outside Washington.
Last month, a prison officer, David Black, was shot dead in Northern Ireland, and a republican splinter group said it carried out the killing to protest conditions at a jail where guards perform strip searches on detained dissidents.
The hope that the affair would turn out to be low-key was initially strengthened when Estonian and Russian border guards performed a joint inspection, which seemed to verify the evidence of an incursion from Russia into Estonia, including multiple footprints in a band of raked sand that runs through no-man's land.
Robots are serving as security guards, performing surgery, checking inventory at grocery stores, assisting in warehouse work, delivering our room service and even hunting for underwater treasure.
He has formed a band with three other inmates and two guards, and performs regularly for fellow inmates.
George J. Weiss Jr., who served with the Marine Corps in World War II, formed a volunteer rifle squad in Minnesota 32 years ago when the family of a deceased friend could not find an honor guard to perform at his funeral.
