I think I heard this one before

[Rob E Dangerously]

"MAN PENETRATES PRESIDENTIAL SECURITY; HANDS BUSH '8 PAGE MESSAGE FROM GOD ABOUT IRAQ'... DEVELOPING..."

 

and I am reminded of this headline from Fark on January 24th, 2001:

 

"Man evades secret service, shakes hands with Bush"

 

I heard the guy had done it before.. I don't know if I am right or just wrong.

[Rob E Dangerously]

Goddamn..

 

I was right!!

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artic...5-2003Feb6.html

 

Gate-Crasher Hands Bush 'Message From God'

 

 

By Lloyd Grove

Washington Post Staff Writer

Friday, February 7, 2003; Page C01

 

The Rev. Richard "Rich" Weaver, nicknamed "Handshake Man" because of his knack for getting up close and personal with the high and mighty, struck again yesterday morning.

 

The Post's David Montgomery reports that the 57-year-old Weaver, a nondenominational Christian minister from Sacramento, crashed the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton, breezing through the ballroom entrance without a ticket and handed President Bush what he later described as an eight-page typed "message from God" about Iraq.

 

"It's just God, buddy," Weaver told Montgomery. "They asked everyone else for a ticket. They didn't ask me." With his conservative blue suit, neat haircut and hearty, gregarious manner, Weaver easily passed through the metal detector. "I don't try to sneak in," Weaver explained. "I just go where I feel like God wants me to go."

 

This is Handshake Man's third noteworthy caper, though he claims to have met five presidents, including George Bush the elder. Weaver made headlines two years ago when he slipped past authorities outside the Capitol and handed a note to the just-inaugurated President Bush, exhorting him to "stand for Christ daily without political compromise." He got past the Secret Service and the U.S. Capitol Police even though the police had studied a video of Weaver shaking hands with Bill Clinton at his second presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, 1997.

 

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how does this guy do it?

[Guest Tyler McClelland]

Juding from an article in US News a few months ago about the Secret Service having major problems protecting the president...

 

 

...this doesn't surprise me.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

"how does this guy do it?"

 

The Man/Woman upstairs?...

[Rob E Dangerously]

"how does this guy do it?"

 

The Man/Woman upstairs?...

The Reverend who has now slipped past the secret service over 5 times at least to give stuff to the President.

 

If I tried to do that, I'd get maced. Probably because I'm not a Reverend.

[Guest Ace309]

This may be the single strongest evidence for the existence of God.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

I meant God helps him out. You win on some attempts at humor, and you lose on some. I tend to have a record like the Cincinnati Bengals...

[Rob E Dangerously]

This guy getting thru security would point to God.

 

Or, it would be like the one weird guy on this 'Secrets of the KGB' DVD I have that was able to use his mind to rob banks by making the people in the bank ignore him or give him money.

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Maybe after the 4th attempt they realized that the guy isn't gonna try and kill the president. Or they just ruled him off as some religous nutjob who has nothing better to do..

[Guest HecateRose]

Sometimes if you just act that you belong, and that you have nothing to hide, people just don't notice you. I've seen that work. Just waltz in through the front door like you are supposed to be there, and some people won't ask you about it because they don't want to look like an idiot for not knowing who you are. Sometimes how you present yourself is all that matters.