Screaming intruder arrested on White House grounds

[kpete]

Screaming intruder arrested on White House grounds
Sun Apr 9, 2006 6:22 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A screaming intruder was subdued at gunpoint on the White House grounds on Sunday while President George W. Bush was at home.

The bearded man, unarmed and wearing a ragged T-shirt that said "God Bless America," scaled the White House fence and ran onto the front lawn, waving his arms and yelling "I am a victim of terrorism," before Secret Service officers chased him down.

Secret Service spokesman Eric Zahren described the suspect as "someone known to us ... who has jumped the fence in the past."

Bush was in the executive mansion at the time, having returned several hours earlier from morning church services followed by a mountain-bike trek.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-04-09T222214Z_01_N09306435_RTRUKOC_0_US-WHITEHOUSE-INTRUDER.xml

[joemurphy]

1. I don't know this "Screaming Intruder", but I can relate. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. What's so odd about standing in front of the White House and screaming?

The mystery is why more people aren't doing it.

[YDogg]

3. "Someone known to us"???

Anyone seen Rummy lately???

[lonestarnot]

4. Wow.... wonder if he was gona throw him out on the lawn?

[undeterred]

5. The real question is why we aren't all out there screaming on the WH lawn.

It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

[lonestarnot]

6. Well I would if I wasn't in Arizona. I have a family and a job. I have

to plan in advance for yelling at the White House.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. I thought Jim Robinson was confined to a wheel chair.

:shrug:

[shain from kane]

8. Mountain-bike trek?

In his sandbox?

Didn't know he was a Trekkie. Explains a lot.

[marmar]

9. It was Rummy, still pissed about Condi's remarks....

:beer: