Yesterday afternoon, a man scaled the fence outside the White House and jumped over while President Obama and his family were celebrating Thanksgiving. Joseph Caputo, who was wrapped in an American flag, detained by the Secret Service.

Vanessa Peña, who was sightseeing, told the Washington Post “she saw a man behind them take off his sweatshirt and wrap an American flag around himself.”

Peña then heard him take a deep breath before saying, “ ‘All right, let’s do this.’ ”

“Then he just ran through us, jumped over the first barricade and went over the fence,” said Peña, who captured photos of the incident. “Right when he landed, he threw his arms in the air and went to his knees.”

Officers and security dogs quickly swarmed the man, who carried a binder in his mouth as he sailed over the fence, and took him into custody, Peña said. The incident lasted no more than five minutes.

Caputo also apparently had a binder in his mouth. He is currently facing criminal charges. The WaPo adds, “The Secret Service did not immediately provide further details of the incident, and officials were working to determine how the man made it past new ‘pencil-point’ spikes added to the White House perimeter this year to deter intruders.”

The pencil point spikes were installed in the summer; the spikes were called an “anti-climb feature,” because for some reason, people persist in trespassing.