Man arrested after climbing bike rack outside White House
Source: Reuters
A man who climbed a bicycle rack outside the White House fence on Sunday has been charged with unlawful entry, the U.S. Secret Service said.
Agency spokesman Brian Leary said the suspect did not make it over the bike rack, which is set back from the presidential residence's fence on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The Secret Service, which protects the president and other U.S. leaders, has come under scrutiny after a series of security lapses.
Last Monday, a small drone operated by an employee of a U.S. spy agency crashed on the White House grounds. In September, an intruder jumped the White House fence and got into the building before being apprehended.
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The man did not get over the barrier, which is about waist high and was put in place after an incident in September in which an intruder climbed the fence and eventually got inside the White House.
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The auxiliary barrier is composed of a series of interlocking metal sections about eight feet long and about three and a half feet or four feet high. Each section, which includes a series of vertical bars, looks like a bicycle rack.
It was not clear whether any previous arrests had been made in connection with attempts to scale the auxiliary barrier.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/man-is-arrested-as-he-tries-to-scale-the-white-house-barrier/2015/02/01/609ab72a-aa6f-11e4-abe8-e1ef60ca26de_story.html?hpid=z4
forbidden to everyone, twenty-four hours per day? That'll show 'em.
Here's what goes on there now:
Street Hockey Enjoys a Foothold in the Shadow of the White House
By Katie Carrera
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Walking through Lafayette Park toward the White House, it's hard to identify some of the sounds that emerge from the usual serenade of birds, squirrels and idling police cars until you've rounded a corner of Blair House and can see their origin first-hand. The rough scrape of hockey sticks on weather-worn granite, the hollow crack of a hard plastic ball bouncing off the street, the continuous chatter that echoes off the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
For roughly 14 years, a group of relative strangers has met to play street hockey here -- on the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, surrounded by manicured trees and box hedges and just a few yards away from the most recognizable address and home in the United States. The gathering of 20-somethings and middle-aged family men includes electricians, lobbyists, software developers, lawyers and physical therapists. Most don't know the other players' full -- or sometimes real -- names.
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The juxtaposition of such free-flowing chaos with the backdrop of the White House is not lost on the players or those passing by. Tourists almost always stop to watch, pulling out digital cameras and handheld video recorders to document the action.
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The closing of Pennsylvania Avenue to vehicular traffic between Lafayette Park and the White House in the spring of 1995 unintentionally created the perfect central location for a pickup game just as the popularity of street hockey was reaching an apex. It wasn't uncommon for 30 to 40 people to flock to the street then, causing several games to sprout up on the street at once. Participation has fluctuated over the years, but by most accounts, numbers are back on the upswing.
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I liked that behind the White House there were lots of people playing street hockey.
and wanted to attack the President.
He would have been left alone
