"They were ill-prepared — they weren't educated to do it, and they weren't trained to do it, and they weren't expecting to do it," Keane said, of the unit's impromptu policing mission.
While the White House was taken off guard by this seemingly impromptu diplomatic mission, Mikoyan was invited to speak to numerous elite American organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Detroit Club in which he professed his hopes for the USSR to have a more peaceful relationship with the US.
Nasa clearly gets it, kicking off its press conference on the Voyager space mission with an impromptu skit based on the iconic opening sequence of Star Trek.
Gathering with friends to take on missions is a treat, and being joined by strangers for impromptu skirmishes leads to some lovely moments of shared drama.
But when the phone rings and it's an impromptu phone chain reporting that a member of the marching band or the church youth mission has been severely injured in a car crash -- suddenly, especially for young people, things aren't so abstract.
For Improv Everywhere's latest mission, they went to New York City's Central Park to give one unsuspecting couple an impromptu date.
Where Juliana was often glimpsed on impromptu bicycle trips in the countryside, Beatrix has been a fixture on state trade missions, always sporting an imposing hat.
When told what the impromptu parade of darkly dressed people was all about, some passers-by gave a thumbs up to the mission.
For their latest mission, Improv Everywhere set out to Astoria, Queens to surprise some unsuspecting subway riders with an impromptu sleeper car.
He was with Vice President Richard M. Nixon throughout Eisenhower's presidency, accompanying Nixon on scores of international missions, including the 1959 trip to Moscow during which Nixon and Nikita S. Khrushchev engaged in their impromptu "kitchen debates" about the relative merits of Communism and capitalism.
