Secret Service apprehends White House fence jumper

AP/WorldMag ^ | Aug 2, 9:43 PM EDT

[quantim]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A homeless man was in custody Tuesday night after climbing over the White House fence, the Secret Service said.

The man was immediately captured by uniformed Secret Service agents, who guard the complex around the clock, said agency spokesman Ed Donovan. He had a backpack that Donovan said was being examined for possible explosive material.

The suspect, identified as James Dirk Crudup, 41, was being transferred to District of Columbia police for processing. He faces charges of unlawful entry and contempt of court for violating an order to stay away from the White House, Donovan said.

A CNN news crew caught some of the drama on tape as it unfolded. Video showed agents leading the man, as they held his hands behind his back, across the North Lawn on the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House, where tourists gather to take photographs.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Even the Keystone Kops could have caught this.

[Gator113]

LOL... Good one.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Keystone Kop competence shouldn't always be taken for granted. The incompetents who guarded Franz Ferdinand in Sarajavo produced a tragic comedy of errors with catastrophic results.

[unkus]

Fairy.

[fight_truth_decay]

"jumper" ?

First I thought DB Cooper was found--skydiver/jumper--then realized some guy climbed over a fence. If he actually jumped over the fence must have super human skills or a low fence.

[stanne]

Michelle looks like a cartoon character in this photo.

she looks like she is about to throw a brick . . . “Ignatz!”

[matthew fuller]

"We may not like his policies, but until January, 2013, he’s our president."

ALLEGED President.

[jennychase]

HeyTammyBruce Tammy Bruce
Obama’s legacy jumps the White House fence
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[ASouthernGrl]

Good to see the Secret Service on the job. An attack on our president is an attack on all of us. We may not like his policies, but until January, 2013, he’s our president.

He may be yours but he sure as hell ain't mine.

[newzjunkey]

All the homeless should be jumping the fence.

[Meet the New Boss]

Good to see the Secret Service on the job. An attack on our president is an attack on all of us.

Actually an attack on Obama will be an attack on conservatives.

It may not be too long before the Left concludes that he is more valuable to them as a dead martyr than a live albatross. Ever since the Garfield assassination (by a nut who was an adherent of the utopian socialist John Humphrey Noye), our political assassins have come predominantly from the Left.

Guys like Ayers and Alinsky always believed the Movement was more important than any individual. Obama's pals play for keeps.

Prayers for the members of the Secret Service.

[presently no screen name]

it as an attack until proven otherwise.

So you think it could be proven what it wasn't?