66-Year Old Man Leaps White House Fence

[UpInArms]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6486602,00.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Secret Service on Friday arrested a man it said had scaled a White House fence with a package and falsely claimed he had a bomb. The incident led to a security lockdown around the White House for more than three hours.

Secret Service officials used a water cannon to destroy the package, which contained no dangerous materials.

Secret Service spokeswoman Kim Bruce said the man, Catalino Lucas Diaz, 66, was charged with unlawful entry, threatening with a bomb and throwing a missile. She said he was believed to be from Florida but had no fixed address.

The area along Pennsylvania Avenue and Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, was closed at 11:10 a.m. EDT after the man jumped the fence along the northeast side of the White House. It was reopened at 2:30 p.m. EDT.

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[Greeby]

1. No thanks, we've already got enough 60-something nutballs in the White House

Don't need another, thank you

[unpossibles]

2. AND he has a very Latino sounding name

not to mention perfect timing. :eyes:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. "NO FIXED ADDRESS."

Perhaps all he wanted was threee meals a day and a roof?

[NYC]

14. That's the part that caught my attention.

He's homeless.

[durtee librul]

4. Probably W's weekly

delivery of cuban rum

[Benhurst]

5. No, he was delivering Laura's Cuban cigars.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Really, I'm surprised there aren't 4 or 5 attempts a day to get at the Chimp. Doesn't he know he's

the most hated person in the world?

[Olney Blue]

7. Gonzales lawyer, perhaps?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. and it was right after this that the chimp

evacuated the imperial city for Camp David, smashing a citizen's car along the way?

[Drum]

9. "...throwing a missle."?

:wtf:

[Canuckistanian]

10. That's an official charge?

How about "hurling a torpedo", "lobbing a shell" or "pitching an RPG"?

[NYC Liberal]

11. "an object (as a weapon) thrown or projected usually so as to strike something at a distance"

I guess we usually think of "missiles" as rockets and bombs. :shrug:

[MLFerrell]

12. Yep. Projectiles of any sort are "missles".

The ones that we colloquially think of as missles are more properly termed ballistic or jet-propelled missles.

[truthisfreedom]

13. Spry feller. I'm surprised they used a water cannon... interesting.

One of these nutjobs comes around every few years.

[carla]

15. Perhaps one of the most direct

challenges to *Co by a citizen of the US and you label him a nutjob. No wonder the US is such a hole as far as democracy goes...

[truthisfreedom]

18. "...falsely claimed he had a bomb. " I rest my case. NUTJOB.

Only a nutjob would claim he had a bomb.

[carla]

21. More likely,

he was being sarcastic. Nutjob...

[HuffleClaw]

16. a 66 year old man LEAPED over a 12 foot fence?

i'm impressed

[w4rma]

17. "a book, a tape recorder and some other items". So he had a message to deliver, not a bomb. (nt)

[Occulus]

19. What would happen if 5000 people did the same thing... all at once? n/t

[outofbounds]

20. 1500 or so would die initially..

The executives would vanish and the air force would obliterate the building including any jumpers who didn't leave. Thats my guess.