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INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM

  • WTF? A tipster writes, “Possible suicide? Chinese man in front of Obama’s office on the 7th floor of Hart [Senate Office Building], threatening to jump.” Could it be The Batman? Somebody go take a camera-phone picture.

UPDATE: “Sadly, no camera phone to verify. They have a team of white coats there and a fire truck (jump unit?) Just pulled up. Streets are blocked off, barriers up.”

Oh, Barack, where are you now that your country really needs you? (Living it up in Iraq, that’s what!)


6:21 PM on Mon July 21 2008
By Ken Layne
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  1. HandsomePete says at 6:30 pm, July 21st, 2008

    I was wondering whatever happened to that tank guy.

  2. blowhard says at 6:32 pm, July 21st, 2008

    There was a guy who tried to jump off a ledge in Foggy Bottom yesterday. They talked him down and he was trying to get off the ledge, but he fell anyway and fucked himself up but I don’t think he died. Maybe it’s the same guy taking another crack at it, pun totally intended.

  3. TJBeck says at 6:36 pm, July 21st, 2008

    This is a rude, heartless tip. The guy is obviously Korean.

  4. Threatening to jump just because or did he tie it in with Obama somehow?

  5. shortsshortsshorts says at 6:44 pm, July 21st, 2008

    Jump!
    FTW!
    Huzzah!

  6. Sabre_Justice says at 6:49 pm, July 21st, 2008

    It’s all up to Obama now.

    To give this man hope.

    And if that fails, fly up and catch him.

  7. graceless says at 7:00 pm, July 21st, 2008

    He’s alright, it’s just the heat. Get that guy a slurpee…

  8. catsquatch says at 7:02 pm, July 21st, 2008

    Quick! Get Plouffe to stack all the flubber-infused prop basketballs the campaign has stockpiled!

  9. wheelie says at 7:08 pm, July 21st, 2008

    More, after the jump.

  10. wheelie: WIN.

  11. The Incomparable Tiny Valdez says at 7:17 pm, July 21st, 2008

    I’m always invited to comment right next to the SWIM MILF. I am disoriented.

  12. Squiggyfm says at 7:23 pm, July 21st, 2008

    Terry McAuliffe’s latest plan to deliver the caucus states fails.

  13. Toonces says at 7:28 pm, July 21st, 2008

    From http://thehill.com/ - An unidentified Chinese man has been threatening to jump from the seventh floor of the Senate Hart Office Building’s inner atrium for the past hour, according to Capitol Police.

    Having worked up there, I think you would go SPLAT.

  14. jagorev says at 7:54 pm, July 21st, 2008

    Obviously, this is John McCain’s former-Communist-torturer-turned-gay-lover, driven to despair by McCain’s flagrant carrying on with Crist and Romney. It’s the only explanation that makes sense.

  15. Sabre_Justice: And if that fails, fly up and catch him.

    Don’t be silly. Obama can’t fly all the way from the Middle East!

  16. FreshCliches says at 8:08 pm, July 21st, 2008

    Toonces: On the sixth floor, you get egg roll.

  17. populucious says at 8:21 pm, July 21st, 2008

    Police have dealt with the man previously, said Gainer, who declined to comment further until the situation was resolved.

    You’d think they’d stop letting him in the building.

  18. wheelie: Yeah, Ken was totally asleep at the wheel on that one. Thanks to jebus you were there to provide us with the totally miserable obvious pun. (I jest - I would have written it if you hadn’t already).

  19. columnv says at 9:51 pm, July 21st, 2008

    wheelie: muhahahahahahahahha!

  20. Squiggyfm says at 10:09 pm, July 21st, 2008

    cal: Such blasphemy!

  21. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 10:13 pm, July 21st, 2008

    What will it take for Hillary supporters to just accept that she lost?

  22. spot8410 says at 10:22 pm, July 21st, 2008

    I was just walking back home, wondering what the hell was going on because they wouldn’t let me walk down Constitution next to the Senate offices. I had to make a big detour. There’s all kinds of news cameras out there and stuff, so something must be happening. It was blocked off when I left my house at 7:30 and a larger area was blocked off by 10.

    I thought a senator might be jumping, but I guess Obama’s got me a little too hoped up.

  23. Texan Bulldoggette says at 10:36 pm, July 21st, 2008

    Doesn’t this guy know it’s McCain that keeps calling the Asian people Gooks? Go find McCain’s ledge & jump off of it!

  24. Quacker says at 10:52 pm, July 21st, 2008
  25. Quacker says at 10:52 pm, July 21st, 2008

    AxmxZ:

    That’s Win WIN!

  26. jasonelias says at 11:04 pm, July 21st, 2008

    Too bad Tom Cruise wasn’t around. None of that shit would have happened. He’s the only one….

  27. NotUrEvryDayWEzl says at 12:07 am, July 22nd, 2008

    spot8410: So this might explain the annoying emergency response vehicles that were interrupting my Screen on the Green Experience(TM)!!!!! Bastard.

  28. dearest says at 12:29 am, July 22nd, 2008

    wheelie: Gracias

  29. gurukalehuru says at 12:42 am, July 22nd, 2008

    If he’s in the Hart office building, McCain’s got an office there, too. So does Hillary. So does Larry Craig. The number of possibilities for this guy’s motivations are endless. I suspect, however, that he’s just fucking nuts.

  30. spot8410 says at 7:46 am, July 22nd, 2008

    NotUrEvryDayWEzl: Hey, that’s where I was! I left early because the mosquitoes are very attacted to me.

  31. spot8410 says at 7:46 am, July 22nd, 2008

    “Attacted” is a real world, I swear.

  32. WIDTAP says at 8:38 am, July 22nd, 2008

    Geez, the lengths McCain will go to to get the headlines away from Obama this week.

  33. WretchedMass says at 11:53 am, July 22nd, 2008

    wheelie: Oh excellent Wheelie…

  34. Outstando says at 12:27 pm, July 22nd, 2008

    wheelie: Take the rest of the day off. Or at least start drinking.

  35. NotUrEvryDayWEzl says at 1:04 pm, July 22nd, 2008

    spot8410: LMAO

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