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Secret Service messes up

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:44 pm
by frankie_the_yankee
Check this out.

If these guys can have an AD, anyone can.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlene ... rss&rpc=22

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:56 pm
by txinvestigator
Someone(s) going to get some time away from work, and remedial training, I imagine.

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:04 pm
by phddan
I wonder if we will ever find out how it happened.

Dan

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:24 pm
by KBCraig
This would be the Uniformed Division, not the Protection Division.

We would hope that the uniforms are properly trained, since they guard the White House, but they are not the agents of SS lore.

As for how it happened, we already know how: somebody unholstered a pistol and pulled the trigger. Now, the why... that's doubtful!

Kevin

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:34 pm
by frankie_the_yankee
KBCraig wrote:This would be the Uniformed Division, not the Protection Division.

We would hope that the uniforms are properly trained, since they guard the White House, but they are not the agents of SS lore.

As for how it happened, we already know how: somebody unholstered a pistol and pulled the trigger. Now, the why... that's doubtful!

Kevin
Maybe from somewhere behind "the blue wall" we will hear something like, "The agent was cleaning the gun when it somehow went off. Since the investigation is ongoing, we will have no further comment"

After all, they don't call it "the Secret Service" for nothing. I'll bet their blue wall is a tad higher than most departments'.

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:17 pm
by spud
Accidental Discharge? No. There are no accidents.

Someone needs to go read the gun rules again.

Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 6:50 pm
by phddan
I was actually thinking it went more like this:

Agent 1- Hey, A2, you see my new piece yet?

Agent 2- No, what did you say you got A1?

Agent 1-Check this out, (as he draws his new gun from its holster), BLAM,
oh man, sorry.

Agent 2-Aahgh!!!!!!!!

Agent 3-Freeze, (as he draws down and serioustly thinks about having his own ND), Drop it and assume the position.

Something like that :grin:

Dan

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 11:48 pm
by maximus2161
Yea someone is going to get a reprimand for that.