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Today in “yes, really:” The White House was briefly on lockdown last night after a toddler managed to squeeze through fence in front of the house.
According to a White House press pool report, at approximately 8:10 p.m., there was a “brief commotion” among Secret Services agents when a daring—but probably just unaware—toddler squeezed in between fence posts on the North Lawn. The incident caused Secret Agents to race across the lawn to intercept the toddler and, per protocol, caused a brief White House lock down, with Pennsylvania Avenue shut down and gates closed for a short period.
The toddler was reunited with his parents and Edwin Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman, told the press pool that they “were going to wait until he learned to talk to question him, but in lieu of that he got a timeout and was sent on way with parents.”
Kids, am I right?