White House on lockdown after latest fence jumper
Source: CBS NEWS
A man jumped over the fence to the White House, and was immediately surrounded by Secret Service agents.
CBS News correspondent Mark Knoller reported the individual jumped the fence along the White House North Lawn and is now in custody. It's the 7th fence jumping incident this year.
Developing story ...
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-apprehended-after-jumping-white-house-fence/
cilla4progress
(24,728 posts)mahannah
(893 posts)EEO
(1,620 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)that one could just walk up and knock on the door. But that was when we were less civilized.
a kennedy
(29,655 posts)And I'm sure that is going to change there.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)... and would stroll the streets of DC in the wee hours.
EEO
(1,620 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)fifty people jumped over the fence all at the same time?
I hate to contribute dastardly ideas to the ethers of the
public domain, but it was the first thing I thought of.
rury
(1,021 posts)Don't contribute such dastardly ideas to the ethers of public domain!!
Thanks!!
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)but not always successful.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)I bet everybody's on much higher alert these days.
I hope.
aggiesal
(8,914 posts)Have one jump over the fence, and
the other 49 come in through the back door, while all the Secret Service
personnel are tending to the first.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)the debacle in Canada today?
usspicard
(12 posts)the two dogs are ok.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Last edited Wed Oct 22, 2014, 11:35 PM - Edit history (1)
Hopefully the fence jumpers aren't dog fiends.
d'oh didn't read that the dogs were hurt.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Didn't even know that the Secret Service had dogs. Don't know how hard they got hit or how they had been trained.
jen63
(813 posts)and aren't nearly as "nice" as German Shepherds. The dogs are SS as well; hopefully he's charged with assault. It's happened before.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Shepherd_Dog_%28Malinois%29
Guessing the dogs didn't suffer much injury. Thanks for the information.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)I am not assuming they didn't suffer much injury.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)jen63
(813 posts)I read though, that in their zeal to get to the perpetrator they sometimes get the good guy too. Hopefully they're okay, I haven't seen anything about their condition yet. Have you? Dogs are my soft spot.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)If a young black man doesn't kowtow to the police fast enough, he's apt to be quickly dead.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)it makes no sense, it is utterly unjust and out of control.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)Mean sayonara. Kudos to them for not being trigger happy - mental illness is usually the issue.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)As it is they get publicity and probably some free psychiatry. A good, unambiguous deterrent is called for. Also this would not be tolerated if it had happened while Stupid was in office.
onenote
(42,700 posts)http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/05/politics/05fence.html?_r=0
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101400813.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101400813.html
and then there is the guy who jumped the fence four times:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/09/whitehouse.intruder/index.html?_s=PM:US
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)It's a barbaric thing to say, but this country has way too deep of a history of killing its leaders to allow for someone to casually jump a fence to the fucking White House.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Glad to read at the link that Gonzalez is getting mental health treatment. I posted on his issues that his family brought to light:
Iraq vet, 42, 'who stormed the White House had more than 800 rounds of ammunition, a machete and two hatchets stashed in his car'
By Lydia Warren, Kieran Corcoran and Wills Robinson - Updated: 22 September 2014
...But relatives have insisted that Gonzalez, from Copperas Cove, Texas, suffers from post traumatic stress disorder after serving three tours in Iraq. He retired after losing part of his foot in an IED blast.
Jerry Murphy, whose mother was married to Gonzalez, said relatives always knew Gonzalez owned a small arsenal of weapons but said they doubted he intended to hurt Obama...
According to agents who arrested him, Gonzalez said that he was desperate to see the President to warn him about 'the atmosphere collapsing...'
His ex-wife said he was very paranoid and began carrying weapons all the time. He was up all night and checking things out. Finally she couldn't take it anymore.
'Omar is a good guy, he's just got some issues that he needs help with. I think this is a cry out for help, what he's done. He really does need help. I just hope he can get it.'
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2765650/Iraq-vet-42-stormed-White-House-800-rounds-ammunition-machete-two-hatchets-stashed-car.html#ixzz3E7CmyW4J
Most comments on that website were sympathetic.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)I too, hope he gets the help he needs. Three tours served. We owe him.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Worrying 'the atmosphere is collapsing...' Perhaps another victim of internet hysteria.
He was so frightened he could not sleep at night. Such a lack of sleep allows previously discounted fears to turn such into a terrifyingly reality. It is a vulnerable state, liable to brainwashing.
A state of long-term torture without outward signs to most people. Yet he was fortunate his family knew and the Secret Service weren't trigger happy.
Lynx
(93 posts)They are all right and back on duty.